Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel
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| Princess Marie Luise Charlotte | |
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| Princess Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau | |
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| Born | 9 May 1814 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | 28 July 1895 (aged 81) Schloss Hohenburg, Lenggries, Kingdom of Bavaria |
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| House | Hesse-Kassel |
| Father | Prince William of Hesse-Kassel |
| Mother | Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark |
Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel,[citation needed] (German: Marie Luise Charlotte, Prinzessin von Hessen-Kassel;[citation needed] 9 May 1814 – 28 July 1895)[citation needed] was a member of the House of Hesse-Kassel by birth. Through her marriage to Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, she became a princess of Anhalt-Dessau.
Family
Marie Luise Charlotte was the second child and daughter of Prince William of Hesse-Kassel and his wife Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark.[citation needed] She was an elder sister of Louise of Hesse-Kassel, consort of Christian IX of Denmark: Her other siblings included Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Auguste Sophie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel.
Marriage and issue
Marie Luise Charlotte married Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, fourth but third surviving son of Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and his wife, Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Homburg, on 11 September 1832 at Rumpenheimer Schloss in Offenbach am Main.[citation needed] The couple had three children:[citation needed]
- Adelaide Marie (Dessau, 25 December 1833 – Schloss Königstein, 24 November 1916); married on 23 April 1851 Adolphe, last Duke of Nassau and first Grand Duke of Luxembourg. The current Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Henri, is her direct descendant.
- Bathildis Amalgunde (Dessau, 29 December 1837 – Schloss Nachod, Bohemia, 10 February 1902); married Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe on 30 May 1862. Her eldest daughter, Charlotte, was the wife of William II, the last King of Württemberg and, through one of her younger daughters, Adelaide, she was the grandmother of the last head of the Wettin branch of Saxe-Altenburg, George Moritz.
- Hilda Charlotte (Dessau, 13 December 1839 – Dessau, 22 December 1926).
Ancestry
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- 1814 births
- 1895 deaths
- House of Hesse-Kassel
- House of Ascania
- Nobility from Copenhagen
- Landgravines of Hesse-Kassel
- German people of Danish descent
- German people of Norwegian descent
- German people of English descent
- Danish people of German descent
- Danish people of English descent
- Danish people of Norwegian descent