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  Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The elder Frederick, a Danish military officer, had been one (and perhaps the foremost) of the candidates of Christian VIII of Denmark in the 1840s to succeed on the Danish throne if the latter's male line died out, but renounced his rights to the throne in 1851 in favor of his sister, Louise.
On January 25, 1893, Frederick married Princess Margaret of Prussia, the youngest daughter of the late Frederick III, German Emperor and Victoria, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Victoria of the United Kingdom and her consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Landgrave Alexander of Hesse abdicated as the head of the House of Hesse on March 15, 1925, and was succeeded by Frederick.
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 Louise of Hesse-Kassel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louise of Hesse (born 7 September 1817 at Kassel, died 29 September 1898 at Bernstorff) was a German noblewoman and (from November 15, 1863) the Queen Consort to King Christian IX of Denmark.
Louise's paternal grandparents were Prince Frederick of Hesse, youngest brother of William I, Elector of Hesse, and Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen; and her maternal grandparents were Sophie Frederikke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Hereditary Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway, sometime Regent of Denmark and Norway, youngest son of King Frederick V of Denmark.
Her nephew Frederick Charles of Hesse, married to a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and of German emperor Wilhelm I, became 1918 elected as King Charles of Finland.
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 My Family
Frederick of Hesse-Cassel (Landgrave) was born in 1747.
Frederick VI of Hesse-Homburg (Landgrave) was born in 1769.
Charlotte of Prussia (Princess), Frederica, Charles, Alexandrine, Ferdinand, Louisa of Prussia, Albert of Prussia (Prince).
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 21ST GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Alice Maud Mary of ENGLAND Duchess of Saxony was born in 1843 in England.
She was married to Louis IV of HESSE (son of Charles of HESSE and Princess Elizabeth Marie of PRUSSIA Grand Duchess of Hesse) in 1862.
Elizabeth (Ella) of HESSE was born in 1864 in Hesse - dtr of Louis IV.
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 woodgate - pafg61 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Frederick Charles of Hesse was born in 1868.
Ernest Louis of Hesse Grand Duke [Parents] was born in 1868.
Eleonore of Solms- Hohensolms-Lich Princess was born in 1871.
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 Drew Spencer Family Tree - aqwg230
Edward Charles Baring Baron Revelstoke was born 1828 and died 1897.
Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel was born 1839 and died 1892.
Margarete of Hesse Princess [Parents] was born 1872.
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 My Family
Margarete of Hesse (Princess) was born in 1872.
Maria Anna of Hesse was born in 1785.
Frederick VI (King of Denmark) and Marie were married on 31 Jul 1790 in Gottorp.
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 Worldroots.com
0 Hesse, Alexander Frederick of, Landgrave of Hesse
1471 Hesse, William I the Elder of, Landgrave of Hesse
1509 Hesse, Philip I the Magnanimous of, Landgrave of Hesse
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Prince Philip of Hesse-Kassel
Prince and Landgrave Philipp of Hesse (6 November 1896-25 October 1980) was Head of the Electoral House of Hesse from 1940 to 1980.
Philipp was born at Schloss Rumpenheim, near Offenbach, the third son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse and of his wife Princess Margaret of Prussia (sister of the German Emperor Wilhelm II).
In 1968, upon the death of his distant agnatic relative, Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine, Philipp succeeded to the total headship of the entire House of Hesse, including grand ducal Hesse (Hesse and by Rhine/Hesse-Darmstadt).
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 Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse - WikiLeasing.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The elder Frederick, a Danish military officer, had been one (and perhaps the foremost) of the candidates of Christian VIII of Denmark in the 1840s to succeed on the Danish throne if the latter's male line died out, but renounced his rights to the throne in 1851 in favor of his aister, Louise.
Finland's position vis-à-vis Germany was already evolving towards that of a protectorate by spring 1918, and the election of Prince Frederick, brother-in-law of William II, GGerman Emperor, was rather thought of as a confirmation of the close relations.
Landgrave Alexander of Hesse abdicated as the head of the House of Hesse on March 15, 1925, and was succeeded by Frederick.At Frederick's death, his eldest surviving son, Philip, succeeded him a head.
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 Line of succession to the Hessian throne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Electorate of Hesse-Kassel was abolished in 1866 when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia, while the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine came to end in 1918.
The current pretender to both Hesse thrones is Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, who inherited his claim to Hesse and by Rhine following the death of Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine in 1968, and became head of the entire House of Hesse on the death of his father Prince Philip of Hesse-Kassel in 1980.
Prince Moritz has also been heir to his grandfather, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse claim to the throne of Finland since the death of his uncle Prince Wolfgang of Hesse in 1989.
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 Maurice of Saxony
Maurice, Elector of Saxony, elder son of Henry, Duke of Saxony, belonging to the Albertine branch of the Wettin family, was born at Freiberg on the 21st of March 1521.
Marching against John Frederick, Charles V, aided by Maurice, gained a decisive victory at Mühlberg in April 1547, after which by the capitulation of Wittenberg John Frederick renounced the electoral dignity in favor of Maurice, who also obtained a large part of his kinsman's lands.
The emperor had refused to complete the humiliation of the family of John Frederick; he had embarked upon a course of action which boded danger to the elector's Lutheran subjects, and his increased power was a menace to the position of Maurice.
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 1918, Jan. 28. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
The Finnish Diet elected Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as king.
After the defeat of the Central powers, Frederick Charles renounced the crown (Dec. 31).
The first agrarian reform law was enacted, enabling tenants on land owned by private persons to purchase that land at prices fixed by public authorities.
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 22ND GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Frederick Charles of HESSE was born about 1870.
Margaret of PRUSSIA (daughter of Kaiser Frederick III of PRUSSIA German Emperor, King of Prussia and Victoria of ENGLAND Princess) was born in 1872 in Prussia - dtr of Frederick III.
She died in 1954 in Hesse - wife of Frederick Charles.
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 Royal Genealogies Part 4
NOTES: Prince Charles (or Carl) of Denmark; Later became King Haakon VII of Norway.
He was elected to the throne of newly independent Norway as the result of a plebiscite in 1905.
Victoria Melita was married first to a nobleman from the bottomless reservoir of minor German royalty, Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse.
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 1918 | Political Events: The People's Chronology
Frederick Handley Page has produced the world's first twin-engine bomber at his 8-year-old aircraft works, and it can carry an 1,800-pound bomb load.
Royalists decide to make Finland a monarchy and select the German prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as king in October, with Mannerheim as regent, but Germany's defeat in November will make it clear that Finland will become a republic (see 1919).
Commanded by Wisconsin-born New York lawyer Maj. Charles W. (White) Whittlesey, 34, and made up mostly of volunteers and enlistees from the streets of New York, the 308th Battalion of the U.S. 77th Division crashed through the German line with about 800 men October 1 but was soon isolated and surrounded.
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 The Royal House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
She married His Royal Highness Emperor Frederick III Hohenzollern of Germany on 25 January 1858 and is the mother of Kaiser William II of Germany.
King Frederick VIII Schleswig-Holstein of Denmark was King Charles Haakon VII's father and he had married Princess Louise Josephine Eugene Bernadotte of Sweden.
Prince Arthur Frederick Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's father was Duke Arthur Williams Patrick Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Connaught and Duchess Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina's mother was Princess Royal Louise Victoria Alexandra Windsor, the daughter of King Edward VII Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Princess Alexandra Schleswig-Holstein of Denmark.
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 Drew Spencer Family Tree - Name Index
, Alexander of Hesse and the Rhine Prince b.1823
, Frederick V of Palatinate King of Bohemia b.1596
, Louis II of Hesse and the Rhine Grand Duke b.1777
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Prince Maximilian of Baden (Max von Baden) (10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929) was the cousin and heir of Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden (being the eldest son of his uncle Prince Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden), and succeeded Frederick as head of the Grand Ducal House in 1928.
Married Prince Wolfgang Moritz of Hesse-Cassel, a son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Margarete of Prussia.
Marie Alexandra was killed in a bombing of Frankfurt by the Allies of World War II.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
During the Civil War in Finland Paasikivi was firmly on the side of the White government.
As Prime Minister May-November 1918 he strived for continued constitutional monarchy with Frederick Charles of Hesse (a German Prince) as king, intending to ensure Finland of German support against Bolshevist Russia.
However, as Germany lost the World War, Monarchy had to be scrapped for a Republic more in the taste of the victorious Entente.
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 Next Match
After a brief but bitter civil war in 1918, the parliament voted to establish the country as a kingdom.
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, a German, was elected king with the name Vaino I but Germany's defeat in World War One a month later meant that this idea was abandoned.
Soups are a Finnish staple, particularly heavy pea, meat, fish and cabbage soups.
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 The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna :: Chapter IV :: Engagement
She fell ill there (with inflammation of the ears) and was advised to recuperate in a warmer climate.
Then came for Princess Alix a time of great mental unrest, her love struggling with the religious scruples that she had acquired without having really probed the differences of belief that she imagined to be so important.
In the autumn of 1893 the Grand Duke of Hesse became engaged to his first cousin, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg (a daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh).
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 World Homes Network - Finland
White (anticommunist) forces under Carl Gustav Emil von Mannerheim, supported by Finnish soldiers trained in Germany (the Jägers) and later by German troops, fought the Red Guards in a civil war marked by atrocities on both sides.
The Whites-dominated rump parliament elected the German Frederick Charles of Hesse as king of Finland, but on Germany's collapse at the end of World War I in November 1918 he refused the crown.
New elections in Finland produced a pro-republican parliament, and under the constitution of 17 June 1919 Finland became a republic under a president with wide executive powers.
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 Amazon.com: "Charles Hesse": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 woodgate - Name Index - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
, Charles Frederick of Holstein- Duke b.1700 -
, Frederica of Hesse- Darmstadt b.1751 - Prenzlau
, Ludwig IX of Hesse- Darmstadt Landgrave -
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 TIME.com: "Old Man Pehr" -- Dec. 28, 1931 -- Page 1
Regent Svinhufvud offered the Crown of Finland to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, brother-in-law of Wilhelm II (who did not abdicate until November 1918).
During the interval Prince Frederick Charles accepted Finland's Crown but delayed and dillydallied about going so far into the "bleak North" until too late.
Several Finnish landowners were murdered in their beds, and Regent Svinhufvud had to lie low.
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 Luxembourg is today the only state to be a grand duchy. Which grand duchies exis...
They had been fairly happy with being in the Russian Empire, but when things changed, they started becoming rather nationalistic.
In 1917, after the Russian Revolution, independence was declared and Frederick Charles of Hesse was chosen as Grand Duke.
He never took up the position, and the Grand Duchy was ruled by short term Regents until the republic was declared in 1918.
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 Winter War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the subsequent Finnish Civil War, German-trained Finnish Jäger troops and regular German troops played a crucial role.
Only Germany's defeat in World War I hindered the establishment of a Germany-dependent monarchy under Frederick Charles of Hesse as King of Finland.
Following the war, German–Finnish ties remained close, although Finnish sympathy for the National Socialists was very sparse.
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