Charles of Hesse-Wanfried (19 July 1649 — 3 March 1711), was a Landgrave of
Hesse-Wanfried. He was the second son of Landgrave
Ernest of Hesse-Rheinfels and Maria Eleonore of Solms-Lich.
Life
After an inheritance dispute about the "
Rotenburg Quarter", Charles received
Hesse-Eschwege in 1667. He moved to
Wanfried and founded the Catholic line of
Hesse-Wanfried. He used the castle in Wanfried as his residence, because the castle in
Eschwege
Eschwege (), the district seat of the Werra-Meißner-Kreis, is a town in northeastern Hesse, Germany. In 1971, the town hosted the eleventh ''Hessentag'' state festival.
Geography
Location
The town lies on a broad plain tract of the river Wer ...
had been pledged to
Brunswick-Bevern, also in 1667.
Marriages
Charles's first wife was Countess Sophie Magdalene of
Salm-Reifferscheidt (1649–1675), a daughter of Count Erich Adolph of Salm-Reifferscheid (1619–1673) and his wife Princess Magdalene of
Hesse-Cassel
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(1611–1671). Sophie Magdalene died in 1675 during a trip to
Venice
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. Charles then married Countess Alexandrine Juliane of
Leiningen-Dagsburg (1651–1703), a daughter of
Count Emich XIII of Leiningen and Countess Dorothea of
Waldeck-Wildungen. Alexandrine Juliane was the widow of Landgrave
George III of Hesse-Itter-Vöhl. She died on 19 April 1703 and was buried in the family vault in the Hülfensberg in Wanfried.
Death and heir
Charles died in 1711 and was succeeded as Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried by his son William II. After William's death in 1731, he was succeeded by his half-brother Christian, who died childless in 1755, thereby ending the Hessen-Wanfried line.
Issue
From his marriage to Countess Sophie Magdalene of
Salm-Reifferscheidt (1649-1675):
* Charles Ernest Adolph (born: 8 October 1669, died: December 1669)
* Anna Maria Eleonora (born: 13 October 1670; died: January 1671)
*
William II "the Younger" (born: 25 August 1671 in
Langenschwalbach; died: 1 April 1731 in Paris, and buried there), Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels
* Frederick (born: 17 May 1673; died: 25 October 1692), a canon at Cologne, died during a visit to the Bishop of
Győr
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in Hungary
* Philip (born: June 1674; died: 28 August 1694)
From his marriage to Countess Alexandrine Juliane
Leiningen-Dagsburg (1651-1703):
*
Charlotte Amalie (born: March 8, 1679 at Wanfried, died: 8 February 1722 in Paris), married on 26 September 1694 in Cologne with
Francis II Rákóczi (born: 27 March 1676; died: April 8, 1735), Prince of
Transylvania
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* Ernest (born: 20 April 1680 in Wanfried, died: June 24, 1680 ibid), buried in the Hülfensberg
* Sophia Leopoldine (born: 17 July 1681, died: 18 April 1724 in Wetzlar). Her daughter Maria Franziska of
Hohenlohe-Bartenstein married Sophia's brother
Christian
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.
* Charles Alexander (born: 6 November 1683 in Wanfried, died: February 1684 in Boppard)
* Maria Anna Johanna (born: 8 January 1685 in Wanfried, died: 11 June 1764 in Erfurt)
* Maria Therese Josepha Elisabeth (born: 5 April 1687, died: 9 September 1689)
* Christine Franziska Polyxene (born: 23 May 1688, died: 17 July 1728), married on 28 February 1712 with
Dominic Marquard, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
*
Christian
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(born: 17 July 1689 in Wanfried, died: 21 October 1755 in Eschwege), the last Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Eschwege and Hesse-Rheinfels
* Juliana Elizabeth Anna Louise (born: 20 October 1690 in Wanfried; died: 13 July 1724), married on 6 January 1718 in
Wanfried with Count
Christian Otto of Limburg-Stirum (born: 25 March 1694; died: 24 February 1749)
* Maria (born: 31 August 1693)
* Eleanor Bernhardine (born: 21 February 1695; died: 14 August 1768 in Frankfurt), married in June 1717 with Count Herman Frederick of
Bentheim-Bentheim
References
*''Chronik der Stadt Wanfried'', Reinhold Strauß, 1908
*Eckhart G. Franz, ''Das Haus Hessen,'' Stuttgart, 2005,
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Landgraves of Hesse
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1649 births
1711 deaths
17th-century German people