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Fernando Enrique Federico de Hesse-Homburg (en alemán, Ferdinand Heinrich Friedrich von Hessen-Homburg; Homburg, 26 de abril de 1783- ibidem, 24 de marzo de 1866) fue el último landgrave de Hesse-Homburg, desde 1848 hasta su muerte. Biografía. Carrera militar. Efigie de Fernando de Hesse-Homburg.
El landgraviato de Hesse-Homburg fue un pequeño Estado del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico entre 1768 y 1806, y de 1815 a 1866 un Estado monárquico independiente dentro de la Confederación Germánica, en lo que hoy es Alemania. Su capital fue la ciudad de Bad Homburg .
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Childhood and youth
Frederick was born in Homburg (the present Bad Homburg vor der Höhe), the seventh and youngest child of Landgrave Frederick I of Hesse-Homburg, who died in 1638, leaving the children to be brought up under the care of their mother, Countess Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg. At his mother's wish Frederick was educated by private tutors together with the sons of his cousin, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, in Marburg. In 1648 he broke his leg and spent some time convalescing i...
Military career
Since his elder brothers preceded him in the succession, he decided on a military career and in 1654 became a colonel in the army of the King of Sweden, Charles X Gustav. In 1659 during the storming of Copenhagen during the Northern Wars Frederick was so seriously wounded that his lower right leg had to be amputated. He was promoted to major-general (Generalmajor) and from then on had a wooden leg. Frederick was chosen by Charles X as the Statthalter of Livonia, but after the king's death thi...
Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
After leaving military service he lived as a Junker in Brandenburg. After the death of Georg Christian, his second eldest brother, who had mortgaged to Hesse-Darmstadt the landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg and the town of Homburg, Frederick redeemed them, and took up residence there himself. In 1681, after the death of his brother Landgrave Wilhelm Christoph of Hesse-Homburg, Frederick took over the governance of the territory as Frederick II. He was however forced to return the territory of Bing...
Frederick II was married three times: in 1661 to Countess Margarethe Brahe (1603–1669); in 1670 to Princess Louise Elisabeth of Courland (1646–1690); and in 1691 to Countess Sophie Sybille of Leiningen-Westerburg(1656–1724). Children by Countess Margarethe Brahe(1603–1669): none Children by Louise Elisabeth of Courland(1646–1690): 1. Charlotte Doro...
Frederick is the eponymous hero of the well-known German drama Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (in full, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin) by Heinrich von Kleist(written 1809–1810, first published 1821). The character of the prince in the play however has little apart from the name in common with the historical personage. Th...
Ludwig Clemm (1961), "Friedrich II.", Neue Deutsche Biographie(in German), vol. 5, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 505–506Arthur Wyß (1877), "Friedrich II.", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB)(in German), vol. 7, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 520–522Rosendorfer, Herbert, 1991: Der Prinz von Homburg: Biographie. München: Dtv ISBN 3-423-11448-7Gräf, Holger T: Der Held von Fehrbellin, in Die Zeit, 3/2008 of 10 Jan. 2008, p. 72Frederick II in the German National LibrarycatalogueFernando (26 de abril de 1783, Homburg - 24 de marzo de 1866, Homburg) fue el último Landgrave de Hesse-Homburg, desde 1848 hasta su muerte. (es) dbo:birthPlace: dbpedia-es:Bad_Homburg_vor_der_Höhe; dbo:parent: dbpedia-es:Federico_V_de_Hesse-Homburg; dbpedia-es:Carolina_de_Hesse-Darmstadt; dbo:title: Landgrave de Hesse-Homburg (es) Landgrave ...
Federico I de Hesse-Homburg (Castillo de Lichtenberg, 5 de marzo de 1585-Bad Homburg, 9 de mayo de 1638) fue el primer landgrave de Hesse-Homburg y fundador de la línea familiar epónima.
Hesse-Homburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and a sovereign member of the German Confederation. It was formed into a separate landgraviate in 1622 by the landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt; it was to be ruled by his son, although it did not become independent of Hesse-Darmstadt until 1668.
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