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Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel

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Princess Marie Luise Charlotte
Princess Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau
Born(1814-05-09)9 May 1814
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died28 July 1895(1895-07-28) (aged 81)
Schloss Hohenburg, Lenggries, Kingdom of Bavaria
Spouse
(m. 1832; died 1864)
Issue
HouseHesse-Kassel
FatherPrince William of Hesse-Kassel
MotherPrincess Louise Charlotte of Denmark

Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (9 May 1814 – 28 July 1895) 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

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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

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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. The couple had three children:

Ancestry

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References

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Citations

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Bibliography

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  • Bramsen, Bo (1985). Ferdinand og Caroline : en beretning om prinsen, der nødig ville være konge af Danmark [Ferdinand and Caroline: an account of the prince who was reluctant to be king of Denmark] (in Danish) (4th ed.). Copenhagen: Nordiske Landes Bogforlag. ISBN 8787439220.
  • Haus Hessen - Biografisches Lexikon (Arbeiten der Hessischen Historischen Kommission) by Eckhart G. Franz. Darmstadt: Hessische Historische Kommission, 2012, ISBN 978-3-88443-411-6.