William II, Elector of Hesse
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William II was the penultimate Elector of Hesse.
Emilie Ortlöpp, Countess of Reichenbach-Lessonitz
Coin of William II, Elector of Hesse
Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark and Norway, was the Landgravine consort of Hesse-Kassel and later the Electress of Hesse-Kassel by marriage to William I, Elector of Hesse.
William II, Elector of Hesse
…II.; 28 July 1777 – 20 November 1847) was the penultimate Elector of Hesse. William was the eldest surviving son of William I, Elector of Hesse and Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark and Norway. With the Hessian troops, he was involved in the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon in 1813. He succeeded as Elector of Hesse (a title that…
Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein
Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark
William IX, Wilhelmine Caroline of Denmark, and their surviving children, Wilhelm, Friederika and Caroline. Painting by Wilhelm Böttner, 1791