Alexander Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse (, 25 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a German prince of the
House of Hesse
The House of Hesse is a European dynasty, directly descended from the House of Reginar, House of Brabant. They ruled the region of Hesse, one branch as prince-electors until 1866, and another branch as grand dukes until 1918.Burke's Peerage, Bur ...
.
Biography
He was the son of
Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel
Frederick William George Adolphus, Landgrave of Hesse (; 26 November 1820 – 14 October 1884) was the only son of Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Wilhelm I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim and Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark.
Early lif ...
and
Princess Anna of Prussia. From 1888 to 1925 he was Head of the electoral line of the House of Hesse, but abdicated his position to his brother
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse (; ; 1 May 1868 – 28 May 1940), was the brother-in-law of the German Emperor, Wilhelm II. He was elected King of Finland on 9 October 1918, but renounced the throne on 1 ...
, on 16 March 1925. He was born with a visual impairment, and this disability, in addition to his morganatic marriage, played a part in his decision to abdicate.
On 25 March 1925, he married
morganatically Baroness Gisela
Stockhorner von Starheim (17 January 1884 – 22 June 1965), daughter of Otto, Baron
Stockhorner von Starheim and Baroness Emilie Susanne ''Hildegard'' von
Wolzogen-Neuhaus.
[Princess Gisela was (through her maternal grandmother) the great-great-granddaughter of London-based ]Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , ; ) are a Religious denomination, religious group of French people, French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, ...
financier François Jacques Houssemayne Du Boulay. She was court lady of Grand Duchess Hilda of Baden.[Gisela Anna Caroline Amalia Ida Pauline Freiin Stockhorner von Starein (genealogy)]
#108918, ''thepeerage.com'', 9 October 2009.
Honours
He received the following orders and decorations:[''Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Hessen'' (1894), Genealog]
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Ancestors
References
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1863 births
1945 deaths
Princes in the German Empire
House of Hesse-Kassel
Blind royalty and nobility
German royalty and nobility with disabilities
Recipients of the Cross of Honour of the Order of the Dannebrog
Annulled Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Expatriates in Denmark
Pretenders
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