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George Charles of Hesse-Kassel (8 January 1691 – 5 March 1755) was a prince of Hesse-Kassel and a Prussian General .
Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel ( Danish: Carl, German and Norwegian: Karl; 19 December 1744 – 17 August 1836) was a cadet member of the house of Hesse-Kassel and a Danish general field marshal.
The Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel were famous for renting out their army to European Great Powers during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a widespread practice at the time for small countries to rent out troops to larger countries in exchange for subsidies.
Eldest son William IV the Wise, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel; second son Louis IV Landgraves of Hesse-Marburg; third son Philip the Younger Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels; fourth son George I Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
George fue el décimo y el hijo menor del Landgrave Carlos de Hesse-Kassel (1654-1730) de su matrimonio con Maria Amalia (1653-1711), la hija del duque Jacob Kettler de Courland. Su herencia consistió en los feudos Waltersbrück y Völkershausen. Recibió su entrenamiento militar bajo el mando del rey Federico Guillermo I de Prusia.
George Charles of Hesse-Kassel (8 January 1691 in Kassel – 5 March 1755) was a prince of Hesse-Kassel and a Prussian General. George was the tenth and youngest son of the Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1654-1730) from his marriage to Maria Amalia (1653-1711), the daughter of the Duke Jacob...
Prince Charles was a cousin of King George III. Charles was born in Kassel in 1744 as the second surviving son of Hesse-Kassel’s then hereditary prince, the future Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and his first wife, King George III’s sister Princess Mary of Great Britain.
