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Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (24 December 1787 – 5 September 1867) was the first son of Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen. He was titular Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel-(Rumpenheim) and for many years heir presumptive to the throne of Hesse-Kassel.
William I, Elector of Hesse (German: Wilhelm I., Kurfürst von Hessen; 3 June 1743 – 27 February 1821) was the eldest surviving son of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Princess Mary of Great Britain, the daughter of George II.
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Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel was born in Copenhagen on 26 November 1820. He moved to Denmark with his family at the age of three, and grew up there. He attended the university in Bonn, and then began a military career. In 1843 he was third in line for the Danish throne after the King's son and brother, Prince Ferdinand.His siblings incl...
His first wife was Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (1825–1844), daughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia.Alexandra died in childbirth, delivering a son who was born three months prematurely, and who died on the day of his birth: 1. Prince Wilhelm (1844–1844) His second wife was Princess Anna of Prussia (1836–1918), the young...
He is important dynastically as a candidate for both the headship of the Hesse-Kassel dynasty (through his father) and for the Danish throne (through his mother). When Frederick William, deposed Elector of Hesse died in 1875, his sons were excluded from succession, because of his morganatic marriage. Therefore, Prince Frederick William succeeded th...
Friedrich Wilhelm received the following awards: German decorations Foreign decorations 1. Austrian Empire: Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, 1860 2. Denmark: 2.1. Knight of the Elephant, 28 June 1840 2.2. Cross of Honour of the Order of the Dannebrog, 28 June 1840 3. Kingdom of Greece: Grand Cross of the Redeemer 4. Russian ...
Frederick William was the elector of Hesse-Kassel from 1847 after 16 years’ co-regency with his father; he was noted for his reactionary stand against liberalizing trends manifested during the revolutionary events of 1848.
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William IX was George III's first cousin - his mother was Princess Mary (1723-72), the sister of George III's father, Frederick, Prince of Wales. He inherited the title Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel upon the death of this father in 1785 and was subsequently in 1803 granted the title of Elector of Hesse.
Hesse-Kassel, former landgraviate of Germany, formed in 1567 in the division of old Hesse. In 1567 Hesse was partitioned among four sons of Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous, Hesse-Kassel going to William IV the Wise.
Oct 9, 2021 · The Thirty Year’s War led to a governmental crisis and Landgrave William V went into exile where he died. The minor William VI inherited the occupied principality, which his regent-mother Amelie Elisabeth set out to reconquer.
