Philip of Hessen-Kassel

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Philipp von Hessen-Kassel around 20 years old

Philip of Hesse-Kassel (* November 26 . Jul / 6. December  1604 greg. In Kassel , † August 17 jul. / 27. August  1626 greg. At Lutter am Barenberge ) was a prince of the House of Hesse . (In the funeral oration of 1626 he is referred to as "Landgrave", although he was already different before the establishment of the Rotenburger Quart and therefore, unlike his younger brothers, was no longer a Landgrave.)

Life

Philipp was the fourth son of Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel and the eldest from his father's second marriage to Juliane von Nassau-Dillenburg . From his first marriage to Agnes zu Solms-Laubach , Moritz had three sons and a daughter.

Together with his half-brother Wilhelm , who was two years his senior, Philipp received a Calvinist - humanist education in Strasbourg , Basel , Zurich and Geneva (1614–1615), then at the Collegium Mauritianum court school in Kassel , which his father founded . Several Latin works by Philipp have been preserved in a collection booklet with sample works by Moritz's sons and daughters for their father, which were prepared under the supervision of teachers.

After the outbreak of the Thirty Years War he received military training in The Hague in 1619 and then took part in campaigns in the United Netherlands . 1624 he got a canon - sinecure at Lutheran Bremen Cathedral . In May 1626 he became a colonel of the Hesse-Kassel cavalry under the command of Christian IV of Denmark . In the Battle of Lutter , in which the Danish army was defeated by Tilly's army , he was badly wounded in the face and taken prisoner. He was supposed to be released for a ransom, but an imperial horseman shot him while fighting over the distribution of the ransom. A map of the battlefield from the 19th century shows the place near Hahausen where he is believed to have died. Tilly had his body transferred to Kassel, where Philip was buried in the Landgrave's crypt under St. Martin's Church.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In obitum Dn. Philippi HL
  2. ^ Collegium Mauritianum. Student works and letters from Hessian princes and princesses (digitized version)
  3. ^ History of the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen . Bremen 1829, p. 202
  4. ↑ 30jaehrigerkrieg.de
personal data
SURNAME Philip of Hessen-Kassel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION non-governmental Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel, colonel
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1604
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1626
Place of death Lutter am Barenberge