William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1 April 1692 – 13 May 1761) was a member 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 ...

and was

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of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld from 1721 to 1761.

Life

William was a younger son of Landgrave Philip of Hesse-Philippsthal from his marriage to Catherine Amalie (1654–1736), daughter of Count Karl Otto of

Solms-Laubach Solms-Laubach was a County of southern Hesse and eastern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The House of Solms had its origins in Solms, Hesse. History Solms-Laubach was originally created as a partition of Solms-Lich. In 1537 Philip, Count of S ...

. Wilhelm founded the non-sovereign line Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld of the

in 1721, after the death of his father, who had left him Barchfeld and

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in his will. Between 1690 and 1732 he built the baroque Wilhelmsburg Castle with three wings, which was named after him, in Barchfeld. He served in the Hessian army and later in the Dutch army. In 1732, he was appointed

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. In 1733, he was promoted to lieutenant general of the cavalry. In 1743, he led the Dutch troops in the

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. In 1744, he had to surrender Ypres to the French. He fought in the

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and defended

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and

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. In 1747 he was promoted

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He died in 1761, as governor of

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Marriage and issue

William married on 31 October 1724 in

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with Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine (1704–1766), daughter of Prince Lebrecht of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, with whom he had the following children: * Charlotte (1725–1798) : married in 1765 Count Alfred August of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Waechtersbach (1717–1782) * William (1726–1726) *

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(1727–1777), who succeeded him as Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld : married in 1772 Countess Sophie Henriette of Salm-Grumbach (1740–1800) * Philip (1728–1745) * Johanna Charlotte (1730–1799) * Caroline (1731–1808) * Ulrika Eleonora (1732–1795) : married in 1755 with Landgrave William of Hesse-Philippsthal (1726–1810) * Charles William (1734–1764) * Anna (1735–1785) : married in 1767 Count Adolph of Lippe-Detmold (1732–1800), son of Simon Henry Adolph of Lippe-Detmold * George (1737–1740) * Dorothea Marie (1738–1799) : married in 1764 John Karl Louis, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1740–1816) * Christian (1740–1750) * Louis Frederick (1741–1741) * Adolph (1743–1803), Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld : married on 1781 to Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen (1752–1805) * August (1745–1745)

Ancestry

References

* Johann Samuel Ersch (ed.): ''Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetischer ...'' p. 29
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