Landgrave George III of Hesse-Itter (29 September 1632 in
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the ...
– 19 July 1676 in Hof Lauterbach, now part of
Vöhl
Vöhl is a municipality in Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse, Germany, not far southwest of Kassel.
Geography
Location
Vöhl lies in the northern part of the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park on the Edersee, a man-made lake. It is located 40 kilometers s ...
) was the second son of Landgrave
George II of Hesse-Darmstadt and his wife
Sophia Eleonore of Saxony
Sophia Eleonore of Saxony (23 November 1609 – 2 June 1671) was a duchess of Saxony by birth and the landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1627 to 1661 through her marriage to Landgrave George II. She was the eldest surviving child of John G ...
(1609–1671). Since he left no male heir, Hesse-Itter fell back to Hesse-Darmstadt.
Marriages and issue
* Georg married on 5 May 1661 to Duchess Dorothea Auguste (30 September 1636 – 18 September 1662), the daughter of
John Christian, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and Countess Anna of
Oldenburg-Delmenhorst. She died after giving birth her only child:
# Stillborn daughter (18 September 1662 in Vöhl)
* After Dorothea's death, he married on 21 July 1667 to Juliane Alexandrine of
Leiningen-Heidenheim (21 August 1651 – 1 April 1703), the daughter of the
Count Emich XIII of Leiningen and Countess Dorothea of
Waldeck-Wildungen (1617-1661). After George's death, she married Landgrave
Charles
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''* ...
of
Hesse-Wanfried
The mini-state Hesse-Wanfried existed from about 1700 to 1731. It was a principality (Landgraviate) of the Holy Roman Empire in the area of the today's Land of Hesse. Governed by a cadet line of the House of Hesse under the sovereignty of the la ...
. With her, George had three daughters:
# Sophie Juliane (17 July 1668 in Vöhl – 9 August 1668 in Vöhl) Died in infancy
# Eleanore (15 August 1669 in Vöhl – 4 September 1714 in Darmstadt) Never married
# Magdalene Sibylle (14 October 1671 in Vöhl – 21 April 1720 in Bernstadt) Never married
References
External links
House of Hesse
Landgraves of Hesse
1632 births
1676 deaths
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