• Thumbnail for Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel
    of Hesse-Kassel (11 September 1747 – 20 May 1837) was a younger member of the ruling dynasty of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and...
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    Hessen-Kassel) (14 August 1720 – 31 October 1785) was Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) from 1760 to 1785. He ruled as an enlightened despot, and raised...
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    Louise of Hesse-Kassel (German: Luise Wilhelmine Friederike Caroline Auguste Julie, Danish: Louise Vilhelmine Frederikke Caroline Auguste Julie; 7 September...
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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...
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    born at Rumpenheim Castle (French: Château de Rumpenheim, German: Rumpenheimer Schloss), Offenbach am Main, Hesse. Through her father, she was a great-granddaughter...
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    Prussia, which annexed some of Austria's other allies (Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, Nassau). Hesse-Darmstadt appears to have been spared this fate only by a cession...
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    eldest surviving son of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Princess Mary of Great Britain, the daughter of George II. Prince...
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  • Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (German: Christina Margarethe Prinzessin von Hessen; 10 January 1933 – 22 November 2011) was a German princess...
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    Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim and Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark. Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel was born in Copenhagen on 26 November...
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    Prince-elector of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). He was born at Hanau on 20 August 1802. He was the son of Prince William, later William II, Elector of Hesse, and...
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    child of Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Louise of Denmark. Her father was the second son of the ruler of Hesse-Kassel, and as such, had no...
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    Charles of Hesse-Kassel (Danish: Carl, German and Norwegian: Karl; 19 December 1744 – 17 August 1836) was a cadet member of the house of Hesse-Kassel and...
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    Grand Duchess of Hesse, the consorts of the Landgrave of Hesse and its successor states; and finally of the Electors and Grand Dukes of Hesse. The only Landgravine...
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    Hesse-Kassel and Maria Amalia of Courland. After his elder brother Frederick became King of Sweden in 1720 and his father died in 1730, he became de facto...
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    Prince Christoph of Hesse (Christoph Ernst August; 14 May 1901 – 7 October 1943) was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was an SS-Oberführer in the Allgemeine...
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    Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (20 November 1627 – 26 March 1686), was a German princess of the House of Hesse-Kassel and by marriage Electress Palatine during...
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    Prince Frederik of Hesse, Landgrave Friedrich of Hesse-Cassel (24 May 1771 – 24 February 1845) was a Danish-German nobleman, field marshal and governor-general...
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    Petropoulos 2006, p. 308-309. Mateos Sainz de Medrano 2004, p. 442. "Brides of Gotha: Irina of Hesse-Cassel". Nobility and Royalty. September 2, 2009....
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    Kassel (redirect from Cassel, Germany)
    pronunciation: [ˈkasl̩] ; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, in central Germany. It is the administrative...
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  • Thumbnail for Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine
    last prince and princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, who were childless, adopting the current head of the House of Hesse-Cassel, Landgrave Moritz. This took...
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    1847) was the penultimate Elector of Hesse. William was the eldest surviving son of William I, Elector of Hesse and Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark and...
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    Sophia Dorothea, Duchess of Württemberg, and Philippine, Landgravine of Hesse-Cassel. Her father was a son of Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt...
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    Princess Marie Frederica Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel (6 September 1804 – 1 January 1888) was a Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen by marriage to Bernhard...
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  • Thumbnail for Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel
    Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel (German: Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine Prinzessin von Hessen-Kassel (31 October 1722, Kassel; 28...
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  • Thumbnail for Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark
    unlike several of their Hesse-Cassel cousins.(Mitterrand 1999, p. 104) This is a mistake, even if it is true that the Hesse-Darmstadt branch hardly compromised...
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    Archbishop of Canterbury. Her godparents were The Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Cassel (her paternal first cousin once-removed, for whom The Earl of Hertford...
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    granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She married Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, the elected King of Finland, making her the would-be Queen of Finland had...
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    Victoria was also the mother of Queen Louise of Sweden. Queen Victoria → Princess Alice → Princess Victoria of Hesse → Princess Alice of Battenberg → Prince...
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    of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. At the request of George V, her grandparents Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine relinquished...
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  • Thumbnail for Philip van Dijk
    painter for William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. In this capacity, he painted Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel and her family. In 1737 he returned...
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