Karl (Hessen-Wanfried)

Karl (Carl) von Hessen-Wanfried (born July 19, 1649 at Rheinfels Castle ; † March 3, 1711 in Langenschwalbach ) was Landgrave of Hessen-Wanfried . He was the second son of Landgrave Ernst von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg and Maria Eleonore von Solms-Lich.

Life

When Karl von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg received the former sub-Landgraviate of Hessen-Eschwege in 1676 after disputes over the estate in the " Rotenburger Quart " , he moved to Wanfried and thus founded the Catholic line Hessen-Wanfried. He expanded the Wanfrieder Castle into his residence, because the residential palace in Eschwege had been pledged to Braunschweig-Bevern since 1667 .

Karl was married to Sophie Magdalene, a daughter of Count Erich Adolf von Salm-Reifferscheid and his wife Magdalene. Sophie Magdalene died in 1675 on a trip to Venice. Karl then married Alexandrine Juliane, daughter of Count Enrico von Leiningen- Dagsburg and widow of Landgrave Georg III , on June 4, 1678 . from Hessen-Darmstadt-Itter . She died on April 19, 1703 and was buried in the family crypt on the Hülfensberg near Wanfried.

Death and heirs

Karl died in 1711 and was inherited as Landgrave of Hessen-Wanfried by his son Wilhelm. After his death in 1731, he was followed by his half-brother Christian, who died childless in 1755, thus ending the Hessen-Wanfried line established by his father.

progeny

From his marriage to Sophie Magdalene

• Karl, Ernst Adolf (* October 8, 1669, † December 1669)
• Maria Eleonora Anna (* October 13, 1670, † January 1671)
• Wilhelm the Younger (born August 25, 1671 in Langenschwalbach, † April 1, 1731 in Paris and buried there), Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried- (Rheinfels)
• Friedrich, (* May 17, 1673, † 1692), canon in Cologne, died during a visit to the Bishop of Raab in Hungary
• Philip. (* June 1674)

From the marriage with Alexandrine Juliane

• Charlotte Amalie (born March 8, 1679 in Wanfried, † February 18, 1722 in Paris)

⚭ September 26, 1694 in Cologne Franz II. Rákóczi (born March 27, 1676; † April 8, 1735), Prince of Transylvania

• Ernst (born April 20, 1680 in Wanfried, † June 24, 1680 ibid), buried on the Hülfensberg
• Sophie Leopoldine (born July 17, 1681, † April 18, 1724 in Wetzlar), married Count Philipp Karl zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein in 1700
• Karl Alexander (born November 6, 1683 in Wanfried, † February 1684 in Boppard)
• Maria Anna Johanna (born January 8, 1685 in Wanfried, † June 11, 1764 in Erfurt) ⚭ Daniel von Ingenheim (1666–1732), her daughter Maria Caroline Charlotte von Ingenheim became the lover of Emperor Karl Albrecht VII and ancestor of the noble family Holnstein
• Maria Therese Elisabeth Josepha (* April 5, 1687, † September 9, 1689)
• Christine Franziska Polyxene (* May 23, 1688, † July 17, 1728)

⚭ February 28, 1712 Prince Dominik Marquard zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1690–1735)

• Christian (* July 17, 1689 in Wanfried, † October 21, 1755 in Eschwege), last Landgrave of Hessen-Wanfried- (Eschwege) and Hessen-Rheinfels
• Julian Elisabeth Anna Luise (born October 20, 1690 in Wanfried, † July 13, 1724)

⚭ January 6, 1718 in Wanfried Count Christian Otto von Limburg-Styrum (* March 25, 1694; † February 24, 1749)

• Maria (born August 31, 1693)
• Eleonore Bernhardine (born February 21, 1695 - † August 14, 1768 in Frankfurt)

literature

• Reinhold Strauss, Chronicle of the City of Wanfried , Wanfried 1908, digitized
• Eckhart G. Franz : The House of Hesse. Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018919-0 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Ernst I.	Landgrave of Hessen-Wanfried 1676–1711	Wilhelm II.