Constantine (Hessen-Rotenburg)

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Konstantin von Hessen-Rotenburg (* May 24, 1716 in Rotenburg; † December 30, 1778 at the Jagdschloss Blumenstein in Wildeck ) was Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg from 1749 .

Life

Under Constantine in 1755, after the death of Christian von Hessen-Wanfried ( Eschwege ), the region of Hessen-Wanfried fell back to the Hessen-Rotenburg line. The Rotenburger Quart , which had been divided since 1648, was now in one hand again and remained undivided in the future after the Primogenitur implemented in 1754 .

In 1759 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece . He was a member of the Freemasons Association ; The Constantin Lodge for the Three Wreaths , founded in Rotenburg an der Fulda in the 18th century, was named after him.

In the years 1767–1769, Constantine had the Palais Hessen-Rotenburg built by the architect Christoph Philipp Diede as a city residence in Kassel .

family

Constantine was the son of Landgrave Ernst II. Leopold von Hessen-Rotenburg and his wife Eleonore Maria Anna von Löwenstein-Wertheim .

Constantine married his cousin Countess Marie Eva Sophie von Starhemberg , widow of Prince Wilhelm von Nassau-Siegen , in 1745 . After her death in 1773, he married the French count's daughter Johanna Henriette von Bombelles (born October 22, 1751 in Bitche ; † November 28, 1822 in Ancy-le-Frame) at the castle in Wildeck in 1775 . She carried the title of Countess von Reichenberg, authorized by the Kaiser.

The first child from his first marriage, Karl Emanuel , became his heir and successor. Another offspring among a total of 11 children was the well-known Carl Constantin von Hessen-Rotenburg or "Citoyen Hesse", a general in the French army.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List nominal des chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or, depuis son instiution jusqu'à nos jours , in: The House of Austria and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edited by the Ordenskanzlei. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7020-1172-7 ), pp. 161–198, here p. 184.
  2. ^ Adolf Kallweit: Freemasonry in Hessen-Kassel . Agis-Verlag, Baden-Baden, p. 14 .

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predecessor Office successor
Ernst II. Leopold Landgrave of Hessen-Rotenburg
1749–1778 		Karl Emanuel
personal data
SURNAME Constantine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Constantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landgrave of Hessen-Rotenburg
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1778
Place of death Wildeck Castle