Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel
| Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel | |
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Hesse-Kassel | |
| Father | Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel |
| Mother | Princess Mary of Great Britain |
Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (
Early life
Charles was born in
His father, the future landgrave (who reigned from 1760 and died in 1785), left the family in 1747 and converted to
The young Prince Charles and his two brothers,
In 1756, Mary moved to Denmark to look after her sister, Queen Louise of Denmark's children. She took her own children with her and they were raised at the royal court at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen. The Hessian princes later remained in Denmark, becoming important lords and royal functionaries. Only the eldest brother William returned to Hesse, in 1785, upon ascending the landgraviate.
Early career
Charles began a military career in
In 1766, he was appointed Governor-general of Norway as successor to Jacob Benzon (1688–1775). He held the position until 1770 but which remained mostly titular, as he never went to Norway during this period. [2]
In 1763, his elder brother
Shortly after, Charles fell into disfavour at court, and in early 1767 he and Louise left Copenhagen to live with his mother in the
In 1768, Charles purchased the landed property and village of Offenbach-Rumpenheim from the Edelsheim family. In 1771 he had the manor expanded into a castle and princely seat. His mother Mary lived in the palace until her death in 1772. In 1781, Charles sold the Rumpenheim Castle to his younger brother, Frederick.
Governor of Schleswig-Holstein
In 1769, Prince Charles of Hesse was appointed royal
In 1770, King Christian VII gave his sister the estate of
Commander-in-chief of the Norwegian army
In September 1772, Charles was appointed
During the
In 1788, the Swedish attack on
When the crown prince and regent of Denmark-Norway, the future
Later life
Charles was a remarkable
During the Napoleonic Wars, he was in command of the army which briefly occupied Hamburg and Lübeck in 1801.
On 25 January 1805, Charles was granted the title "Landgrave of Hesse" by his elder brother, who had assumed the higher dignity and title of Imperial Prince-Elector.
In 1807, the manor and village of
Following the death of his father's first cousin, prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessenstein, he inherited the estate of Panker in Holstein in 1808.
In 1814, ather the dissolution of Denmark-Norway, he lost the position of commander-in-chief of the Norwegian army, but was appointed general field marshal of the Danish army. In 1816 he became Grand Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog.
Prince Charles died on 17 August 1836 in the castle of
Marriage and issue
On 30 August 1766 at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Charles married Princess Louise of Denmark, his first cousin, the youngest daughter of his aunt, Princess Louise of Great Britain, and King Frederick V of Denmark and Norway, who died the same year. The couple had the following children:
- Marie Sophie, Princess of Hesse (20 October 1767 – 21 March 1852), married on 31 July 1790 her first cousin the future King Frederick VI of Denmarkand Norway
- Wilhelm, Prince of Hesse (15 January 1769 – 14 July 1772)
- morganatically Clarelia Dorothea (Klara) von Brockdorff (1778-1836), daughter of Ditlev von Brockdorff (1708-1790) and his second wife, Henriette Friederike von Blome(b.1745). Frederik was a general and royal governor.
- Juliane, Princess of Hesse (19 January 1773 – 11 March 1860), Protestant Abbess of Itzehoe
- Prince Christian of Hesse (14 August 1776 – 14 November 1814)
- Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (28 September 1789 – 13 March 1867), married on 28 January 1810 Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Princess Louise died at
Ancestry
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References
Citations
- ^ "Karl Av Hessen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Benzon, Jacob, 1688-1775". Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Christian 7". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Gustav III:s statskupp 1772". historiesajten.se. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ Murray, Iain (2000). Evangelicalism Divided : A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust. p. 5.
- ^ "Frederik 6". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
Bibliography
- Holm, Edvard (1889). "Carl, Landgreve af Hessen-Kassel". In Bricka, Carl Frederik (ed.). Dansk Biografisk Lexikon, tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814 (in Danish). Vol. III (1st ed.). Copenhagen: Gyldendal. pp. 360–364.
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