Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel

Princess Marie Luise Charlotte
Princess Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau
Born	(1814-05-09)9 May 1814 Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	28 July 1895(1895-07-28) (aged 81) Schloss Hohenburg, Lenggries, Kingdom of Bavaria
Spouse	Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau ​ ​ (m. 1832; died 1864)​
Issue	Adelheid-Marie, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg Bathildis, Princess William of Schaumburg-Lippe Princess Hilda
House	Hesse-Kassel
Father	Prince William of Hesse-Kassel
Mother	Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark

Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (9 May 1814 – 28 July 1895) was a member of the House of Hesse-Kassel by birth. Through her marriage to Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, she became a princess of Anhalt-Dessau.

Family

Marie Luise Charlotte was the second child and daughter of Prince William of Hesse-Kassel and his wife Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark. She was an elder sister of Louise of Hesse-Kassel, consort of Christian IX of Denmark: Her other siblings included Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Auguste Sophie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel.

Marriage and issue

Marie Luise Charlotte married Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, fourth but third surviving son of Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and his wife, Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Homburg, on 11 September 1832 at Rumpenheimer Schloss in Offenbach am Main. The couple had three children:

• Adelaide Marie (Dessau, 25 December 1833 – Schloss Königstein, 24 November 1916); married on 23 April 1851 Adolphe, last Duke of Nassau and first Grand Duke of Luxembourg. The current Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Henri, is her direct descendant.
• Bathildis Amalgunde (Dessau, 29 December 1837 – Schloss Nachod, Bohemia, 10 February 1902); married Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe on 30 May 1862. Her eldest daughter, Charlotte, was the wife of William II, the last King of Württemberg and, through one of her younger daughters, Adelaide, she was the grandmother of the last head of the Wettin branch of Saxe-Altenburg, George Moritz.
• Hilda Charlotte (Dessau, 13 December 1839 – Dessau, 22 December 1926).

Ancestry

Ancestors of Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel

8. Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel 4. Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel 9. Princess Mary of Great Britain 2. Prince William of Hesse-Kassel 10. Charles William, Prince of Nassau-Usingen 5. Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen 11. Countess Caroline Felizitas of Leiningen-Dagsburg 1. Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel 12. Frederick V of Denmark 6. Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Norway 13. Duchess Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 3. Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark 14. Duke Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 7. Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 15. Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

References

Bibliography

• Bramsen, Bo (1985). Ferdinand og Caroline : en beretning om prinsen, der nødig ville være konge af Danmark [Ferdinand and Caroline: an account of the prince who was reluctant to be king of Denmark] (in Danish) (4th ed.). Copenhagen: Nordiske Landes Bogforlag. ISBN 8787439220.
• Haus Hessen - Biografisches Lexikon (Arbeiten der Hessischen Historischen Kommission) by Eckhart G. Franz. Darmstadt: Hessische Historische Kommission, 2012, ISBN 978-3-88443-411-6.