Ernest Eugene Charles Augustus Bernard Paul of Hesse-Philippsthal (german: Ernst Eugen Karl August Bernhard Paul von Hessen-Philippsthal; born: 20 December 1846 in
Philippsthal
Philippsthal (Werra) is a market community in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in eastern Hesse, Germany, right at the boundary with Thuringia.
Geography
Location
Philippsthal lies between the outliers of the Rhön and the Thuringian Forest (ranges) ...
; died: 22 December 1925 in
Eisenach) was a member of the
House of Hesse and was the last ruling Landgrave of
Hesse-Philippsthal.
Life
Ernst was the eldest son of the Landgrave
Charles II of Hesse-Philippsthal (1803-1868) from his marriage to Duchess Marie of
Württemberg
Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart.
Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Württ ...
(1818-1888), a daughter of
Duke Eugen of Württemberg.
After the
Electorate of Hesse
The Electorate of Hesse (german: Kurfürstentum Hessen), also known as Hesse-Kassel or Kurhessen, was a landgraviate whose prince was given the right to elect the Emperor by Napoleon. When the Holy Roman Empire was abolished in 1806, its pr ...
including Hesse-Philippsthal was annexed by Prussia in 1866, Ernest resigned on all subsequent claims on Hesse-Philippsthal in 1868, together with Landgrave
Alexis of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld. In 1880, he received as compensation an annual income of , plus the
Hanau City Castle in
Hanau,
Rotenburg Castle and
Schönfeld Castle in
Kassel.
Ernest died in 1925 unmarried and without descendants. With his death, the main Hesse-Philippsthal line of the
House of Hesse died out; only the junior lines
Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
This is a list of rulers of Hesse (german: Hessen) during the history of Hesse on west-central Germany. These rulers belonged to a dynasty collectively known as the House of Hesse and the House of Brabant,''Burke's Royal Families of the Wor ...
and
Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim remained; the first inherited his estate.
Ancestors
External links
''Hessen-Philippsthal'' in: ''Meyers Konversations-Lexikon'', 1888
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Members of the Prussian House of Lords
House of Hesse
1846 births
1925 deaths
Landgraves of Hesse
19th-century German people
20th-century German people
Heirs apparent who never acceded