| Victor | |
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| Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg | |
| Spouse | Leopoldine of Fürstenberg Elisabetha of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Eleonora of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim and Gerlachsheim |
| House | House of Hesse-Kassel |
| Father | Charles Emmanuel of Hesse-Rotenburg |
| Mother | Leopoldina of Liechtenstein |
| Born | Rotenburg 2 September 1779 |
| Died | 12 November 1834 (aged 55) Racibórz |
Victor of Hesse-Rotenburg (Victor Amadeus; 2 September 1779 – 12 November 1834) was the last Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg. Victor was also the Prince of Corvey from 1815 and Duke of Ratibor from 1821. His namesake was his second cousin King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia.
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Victor Amadeus was a son of the Charles Emmanuel of Hesse-Rotenburg (1746–1812) and his wife Leopoldina of Liechtenstein (1754–1823), daughter of Prince Franz Josef I.
Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, appointed him as his Chamberlain. Victor Amadeus rejected this by pointing out he was a subject of the Holy Roman Empire. Then he accused the king of the felony, after which Victor Amadeus fled. Victor Amadeus was then forced to transfer to the king the palace in Rotenburg in Kassel to cover his debt of 35,000 dollars. The king confirmed him on 10 July 1813 as Prince, Victor Amadeus refused to continue service of the king to enter into the.
In preparing the new constitution on administrative reform in Hesse in 1821, he rejected any involvement from. He regarded the provisions as binding on himself and his possessions. Repeatedly, there were negotiations with the Landgrave, to him an indemnity against Quantum, which was initially dollars 450,000, all of its rights and land in Sydney to move to the assignment. Victor Amadeus in 1815 came to Hesse-Rotenburg current territory on the Rhine (St. Goar and Rheinfels) to Prussia. In compensation he received the principalities Ratibor and Corvey under Prussian sovereignty as Allodialvermögen. He moved from 1825 to 1833, the court library of 36,000 volumes Rotenburger to Corvey.
His godfather was a nephew of Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia. Victor Amadeus was the last Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg. In his first marriage (1799) by remained childless. After her death in 1806, he married in 1812 Elisabeth zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who gave birth to a dead daughter. After the death of his second wife, he remarried in 1831 to Eleonore of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim. This marriage remained childless till the death of Victor Amadesu in 1834.
His possessions Ratibor and Corvey he bequeathed to his nephew to Victor Hohenlohe as were his titles of Duke of Ratibor and Prince of Corvey. The property belonged next to the former monastery of Corvey in Westphalia, the rule Ratibor in Upper Silesia. This area was 34,000 ha in size and consisted mostly of forests.
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