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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. Life. 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 Kettler of Courland.
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.
By 1940, the head of the house of Hesse-Kassel was Prince Philipp von Hessen, who was considered by some to be part of Hitler’s inner circle. It is nearly impossible to write about any royal family in Europe after 1900 without circling back to Queen Victoria of England.
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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...
Distinguished for its line of vigorous, highly competent Calvinist rulers, Hesse-Kassel reestablished its sixteenth-century reputation as a well-administered state. Its wartime experience led the seventeenth-century landgraves to enlarge their armies and to supplement their limited resources by leasing troops to other rulers, a common practice ...
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.
