Of his two daughters, the eldest, Louise Charlotte, married Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland, and the younger, Hedwig Sophie, married William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.

The Elector of Hesse and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel chose to retain the defunct electoral title until the state was annexed by Prussia, 60 years later.

In 1803, electorates were created for the Duke of Württemberg, the Margrave of Baden, the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), and the Duke of Salzburg, bringing the total number of electors to ten.

The Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, however, retained the meaningless title " Elector of Hesse ", thus distinguishing himself from other Hessian princes ( the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg ).

* March 23 – Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ) ( b. 1654 )

* May 20 – Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ) ( b. 1747 )

* August 25 – William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ) ( b. 1532 )

** William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), German Protestant leader ( d. 1592 )

* William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ( 1532-1592 )

* Rudolf Erich Raspe ( 1736 – 1794 ), a University of Kassel librarian who fled to England after embezzling significant funds from Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and wrote ( or compiled ) The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen.

* Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden ( 1 August 1902-29 January 1944 ); married Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse-Kassel, designated King of Finland, and Princess Margaret of Prussia ; no issue.

On April 26, 1709, he married Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel ( 1688 – 1765 ), daughter of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and granddaughter of Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland.

Frederick I,, ( 17 April 1676 – 25 March 1751 ) was a prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and a King of Sweden from 1720 until his death and ( as Frederick I ) also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730.

He was the son of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Princess Maria Amalia of Courland.

His brother the governor, who would succeed Frederick as Landgrave William VIII of Hesse-Kassel, though by background a distinguished soldier, was likewise a great success locally.

Hesse-Kassel, Frederick I, Landgrave of

She abdicated in 1720 in favor of her consort, Landgrave Frederick I of Hesse-Kassel.

In 1715 she married Landgrave Frederick I of Hesse-Kassel.

Siegen may or may not have met Rupert: Siegen had worked as chamberlain, and probably part-tutor, to Rupert's young cousin William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, with whom Rupert discussed the technique in letters from 1654.

From 1767, he was responsible for some collections of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ).

* Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Kassel ( 1744 – 1836 )

* Vilhelmina of Denmark ( born 18 January 1808 ), daughter of Frederick VI of Denmark and Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel ( ultimately she married firstly Frederick VII of Denmark and secondly Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg )

* Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, ( 1747-1837 ).

* HSH Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel ( 1797-1889 ), Princess and Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, consort to Field Marshal HRH The Prince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge.

Left to right: Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ) | Dagmar, Frederick VIII of Denmark | Frederick, Prince Valdemar of Denmark | Valdemar, Christian IX of Denmark | Christian IX, Louise of Hesse-Kassel | Queen Louise, Princess Thyra of Denmark | Thyra, George I of Greece | George and Alexandra

On 31 May 1700, he married his first wife, Louise Dorothea, Princess of Prussia ( 1680 – 1705 ), daughter of Frederick I of Prussia ( 1657 – 1713 ) and Elizabeth Henrietta of Hesse-Kassel ( 1661 – 1683 ).

George and his family, 1862: ( back row left to right ) Frederick VIII of Denmark | Frederick, Christian IX of Denmark | Christian IX, George ; ( front row left to right ) Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ) | Dagmar, Prince Valdemar of Denmark | Valdemar, Louise of Hesse-Kassel | Queen Louise, Princess Thyra of Denmark | Thyra, Alexandra of Denmark | Alexandra

Although his full name was Prince Christian Wilhelm Ferdinand Adolf Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, until his accession in Greece, he was known as Prince Vilhelm ( William ), the namesake of his paternal and maternal grandfathers, Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Prince William of Hesse-Kassel.

The elder Frederick was of practically Danish upbringing, having lived all his life in Denmark, but in 1875, when the senior branch of Hesse-Kassel became extinct, he settled in northern Germany, where the House had substantial landholdings.

Frederick was the son of King Christian V of Denmark and Norway and Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ).

* Marie of Hesse-Kassel ( born 6 September 1804 ), daughter of William II, Elector of Hesse and Augusta of Prussia ( ultimately she married Bernard II of Saxe-Meiningen )

Alexandra of Denmark | Queen Alexandra ( wearing the The Personal Jewel Collection of Elizabeth II | Russian Kokoshnik Tiara ), with her daughter Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife | Louise, Princess Royal ( far left wearing the Fife Tiara ) and mother Louise of Hesse-Kassel | Queen Louise of Denmark, all wearing tiaras.

On his death, his territories were divided ( Hesse becoming Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Marburg, Hesse-Rheinfels, and Hesse-Darmstadt ) between his four sons by his first wife, namely William IV of Hesse-Kassel, Louis IV of Hesse-Marburg, Philip II of Hesse-Rheinfels, and Georg I of Hesse-Darmstadt.

During the American Revolutionary War, Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel ( a principality in northern Hesse or Hessia ) and other German leaders hired out some of their regular army units to Great Britain for use to fight against the Patriots in the American revolution.

He studied law at Göttingen, graduated in 1816, and took his seat as Assessor in the judicial chamber of the board of government ( Regierungskollegium ) at Kassel, of which his father Johann Hassenpflug was also a member, in 1821 he was nominated by the new elector, William II, fustisrat ( councillor of justice ); in 1832 he became Ministerialrat and reporter ( Referent ) to the ministry of Hesse-Kassel, and in May of the same year was appointed successively minister of justice and of the interior.

In 1592 Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor in Prague received from his uncle, the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, a Bürgi globe and insisted that Bürgi deliver it personally.

Her paternal grandparents were Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Mary of Great Britain, a daughter of King George II and Caroline of Ansbach.

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Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ( father of 74 & 76 ), same person as 92

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The latter family died out in 1755, when William's grandson, Constantine ( d. 1778 ), reunited the lands except Rheinfels, which had been acquired by Hesse-Kassel in 1735, and ruled them as Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg.