Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Cassel

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Prince Frederick of Hesse (11 September 174720 May 1837) was a younger member of the dynasty that ruled the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and a Danish general.

He was born as the youngest son of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (the future Landgrave Frederick II) and Princess Mary of Great Britain.

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[edit] Youth

His father, the then hereditary prince (who reigned from 1760 and died in 1785) had in 1747 left the family and soon converted Catholicism, and in 1755 formally ended the marriage. The young prince Frederick, together with his two elder brothers, were with their mother the landgravine Mary and became since 1747 fostered by Protestant relatives and soon moved to Denmark, to be guests of her sister Louise of Great Britain who however died in 1751. His two elder brothers married Danish princesses, their first cousins, in 1763 and 1766 respectively. They remained in Denmark, becoming its important lords and royal functionaries. Only his eldest brother returned to Kassel, in 1785 when ascending the landgraviate.

[edit] Ancestry

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Wilhelm VI of Hesse-Kassel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Hedwig Sophia of Brandenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Maria Amalia of Courland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Weimar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Marie Amalie of Brandenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Sophie Dorothea of Holstein-Glücksburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Prince Frederick of Hesse
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. George I of Great Britain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Sophia, Countess Palatine of Simmern
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. George II of Great Britain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Sophia Dorothea of Celle
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Eleonore d'Esmier d'Olbreuse
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Princess Mary of Great Britain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Albert V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Johann Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Sophia Margaret of Oettingen-Oettingen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Eleanor Erdmuthe Louise of Saxe-Eisenach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
 
 

[edit] Marriage

He married Princess Caroline Polyxene of Nassau-Usingen, a remarkable heiress of a family which went extinct in male line. Her inheritance included the castle of Rumpenheim which became the family's seat.

[edit] Children