Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt
Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt (1722–1782)
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Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt (11 July 1722 – 21 June 1782) was a Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was born in Darmstadt.
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 Portrait by Johann Christian Fiedler c. 1760 | |
| Born | 11 July 1722 Darmstadt |
| Died | 21 June 1782 (aged 59) Darmstadt |
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| House | Hesse-Darmstadt |
| Father | Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt |
| Mother | Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg |
He was the second son of Landgrave Louis VIII and Charlotte Christine Magdalene Johanna of Hanau-Lichtenberg. From 1738 till his death, he commanded an army-regiment of his land. In the 1740s, he also commanded a Prussian regiment. He reached the rank of general of the cavalry. He was the official military adviser to his father, but had a strong rival in his older brother Louis IX, who followed the example of his friend the soldier-king Frederick II of Prussia and expanded Pirmasens as a garrison town.
In 1748, he married Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg. Through this marriage, he acquired the estates of Broich, Oberstein, Aspermont, Burgel, and Reipolzkirchen.[1] He and Maria had nine children.
In 1764, George William received Old Palace in Darmstadt and the associated pleasure garden as a gift from his father, who had always favoured him above his brother Louis.[2] George William had the palace with the White Tower expanded. He represented the reigning family in Darmstadt, as his brother stayed mostly in Pirmasens.
Issue
| Name | Portrait | Birth | Death | Notes |
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| Ludwig Georg Karl[1] | 1749 | 1823 | Married morganatically in 1788 Friederike Schmidt, Baroness von Hessenheim | |
| Georg Friedrich | 15 June 1750 - 2 July 1750 | died young | ||
| Friederike Caroline Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz |  | 20 August 1752 | 22 May 1782 | Married in 1768 Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, had issue |
| Georg Karl[1] |  | 14 June 1754 | 28 January 1830 | Never married and had no issue |
| Charlotte Wilhelmine Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz |  | 5 November 1755 | 12 December 1785 | Married in 1784 Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, had issue |
| Karl Wilhelm Georg | 16 May 1757 | 15 August 1797 | Never married and had no issue | |
| Friedrich Georg August | 21 July 1759 | 19 May 1808 | Married morganatically in 1788 Karoline Luise Seitz, Baroness von Friedrich, no issue | |
| Louise Henriette Caroline |  | 15 February 1761 | 24 October 1829 | Married in 1777 Louis X of Hesse-Darmstadt,[1] had issue |
| Auguste Wilhelmine Duchess of Zweibrücken |  | 14 April 1765 | 30 March 1796 | Married in 1785 the future King Maximilian I of Bavaria, had issue |
Ancestry
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