William II (German: Wilhelm II; 28 July 1777 – 20 November 1847) was the penultimate Elector of Hesse. William was the eldest surviving son of William...

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...

was the son of Prince William, later William II, Elector of Hesse, and Princess Augusta of Prussia, daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia. During...

daughter of William II, Elector of Hesse and Princess Augusta of Prussia. Marie Frederica was one of six children born to William II, Elector of Hesse by his...

The Elector's formal titles included "Elector of Hesse, Prince of Fulda (Fürst von Fulda), Prince of Hersfeld, Hanau, Fritzlar and Isenburg, Count of Katzenelnbogen...

William II (29 April 1469 – 11 July 1509) was Landgrave of Lower Hesse from 1493 and Landgrave of Upper Hesse after the death of his cousin, William III...

marriage to William II, Elector of Hesse. She was the third daughter and fifth child of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt...

elevated to an Electorate and Landgrave William IX became an Imperial Elector. Many members of the House of Hesse-Kassel served in the Danish military gaining...

Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels (1671–1731) William II, Elector of Hesse (1777–1847) William II of the Netherlands (1792–1849), Grand Duke of Luxembourg...

of King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach. They had four sons: William (25 December 1741 – 1 July 1742) William I, Elector of Hesse (3...

William (German: Georg Wilhelm; 13 November 1595 – 1 December 1640), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of...

as Elector of Hesse until the electorate was abolished in 1866. His paternal grandparents were Prince William, later William II, Elector of Hesse, and...

wife of Philip William, Elector Palatine. Born at the New Palace in Gießen, Elisabeth Amalie was the daughter of George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt...

1685. He was the son of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine of the House of Wittelsbach, and Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel. His parents separated after a marriage...

Electorate of Hesse and Landgrave William IX was elevated to Imperial Elector, taking the title William I, Elector of Hesse. The principality thus became...

who became Electress of Hesse by her marriage to William II, Elector of Hesse, had issue Prince Henry (1781–1846) Prince William (1783–1851), married...

Duke of Bavaria (reigned 1404–17) William II, Landgrave of Hesse (reigned 1493–1509) William II, Elector of Hesse (reigned 1821–47) William II of Württemberg...

of William of Orange, afterward King William I of the Netherlands Augusta (1780–1841), wife of William II, Elector of Hesse Henry (1781–1846) William (1783–1851)...

Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and Luise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Her maternal grandparents were William II, Elector of Hesse and Princess Augusta of Prussia...

William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532-1592), German nobility William I, Elector of Hesse (1743-1821), German nobility Prince William of Hesse,...

Philip William of Neuburg, Elector Palatine (German: Philipp Wilhelm) (24 November 1615 – 2 September 1690) was Count Palatine of Neuburg from 1653 to...

Frederick IV, Elector Palatine of the Rhine (German: Friedrich IV.; 5 March 1574 – 19 September 1610), only surviving son of Louis VI, Elector Palatine and...

wife of King Frederick William II. Frederica Louisa was the daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken...

was appointed as the ninth prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire in 1692. He was also ruler of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück from 1662 until his death...

(1541–47) and later Elector (1547–53) of Saxony. His clever manipulation of alliances and disputes gained the Albertine branch of the Wettin dynasty extensive...

dissolution. The consorts of these last Electors were: The Electress of Württemberg; The Electress of Hesse-Kassel. There was also an Elector of Baden, but the only...

grandparents were Prince William, later William II, Elector of Hesse, and Princess Augusta of Prussia (a daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia). Her maternal...

was the Landgravine consort of Hesse-Kassel and later the Electress of Hesse-Kassel by marriage to William I, Elector of Hesse. Princess Wilhelmina Caroline...

Countess of Bergen (9 January 1820 – 21 February 1877) was a member of the noble von Berlepsch family and was the third wife of the Elector William II of Hesse-Kassel...

Landgrave William IX (later William I, Elector of Hesse), who added the grades of Grand Cross and Commander. It was further expanded in 1818 with William splitting...