Frederic de Hesse

Frederic de Hesse

Frederic Charles de Hesse-Cassel-Rumpenheimer , prince. (In German Friedrich Karl von Hessen-Kassel-Rumpenheim), born with the castle of Panker on May 1st 1868, deceased the May 28th 1940).

General of Prussian infantry, King de Finlande of the October 9th to the December 14th 1918.

Family

Third wire of Frederic de Hesse-Cassel, landgrave of Hesse-Cassel-Rumpenheim and Anne of Prussia, girl of the prince Charles of Prussia and Marie-Louise of Saxony-Weimar and grand-daughter of Frederic-Guillaume III of Prussia.

In 1893, Frederic Charles de Hesse-Cassel-Rumpenheim married Marguerite of Prussia (1872 - 1954), (girl of Frederic III of Prussia and Victoria of Saxony-Cobourg-Gotha)

Six children were born from this union:

  • Frederic de Hesse-Cassel-Rumpenheim (1893 - killed in 1916)

  • Maximilien de Hesse-Cassel-Rumpenheim (1894 - killed in 1914)

  • Richard de Hesse-Cassel-Rumpenheim (1901 - 1969)

  • Christophe de Hesse-Cassel-Rumpenheim (1901 - killed in 1943), in 1930 it married Sophie of Greece (1914 - 2001), (girl of the prince André of Greece and sister of the prince Philip Mountbatten)

Biography

His/her father will be one of the possible candidates of Christian VIII of Denmark to succeed to him as from the years 1840, but it renonça with his claims in favor of his sister, Louise de Hesse. He settled in Denmark in 1875. With died of his father, he became the chief of the house of Hesse.

Under the German pressures, Finland will declare its independence of Russia on December 6th, 1917, immediately forcing the debate on the creation of a republic or a Finnish monarchy. The monarchists being minority at the Parliament at the time of the declaration of Independence, the Finland became a republic for little time. After the civil war, the social democrat Party will be excluded from the Parliament and the proclaimed Monarchie. Frederick will be elected King de Finlande on October 9th, 1918. Like the other Baltic States, the Finland was subjected to the military pressures of the German Empire which imposed their candidate for the Finnish throne. But the signature of the armistice on November 11th, 1918 forced the German Kaiser with abdication and to proclaim the German republic. The Allies not supporting to see a relative of the ex-emperor to the head of another country, Finland had it to also proclaim the Republic. It remained with the head of the royal family of Hesse until her death which has occurred in 1940. It is his/her Wolfgang son who succeeded to him.

Frederic Charles de Hesse-Cassel-Rumpenheim belonged to the line of Hesse-Cassel pertaining to the first branch of the House of Hesse, itself resulting from a$inée branch of the House of the Brabant.

Frederic Charles de Hesse-Cassel-Rumpenheim is the grandfather of the current chief of the House of Hesse, the prince Moritz of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Internal bonds

External bonds and sources

Web.genealogie.free.fr

Finland

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