Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt

Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg

(m. 1748)

Issue
among others...Prince Louis George
Prince George Friedrich
Friederike, Duchess Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Prince George Charles
Charlotte, Duchess Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Prince Karl William
Prince Friedrich George
Louise, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine
Augusta Wilhelmine, Duchess of ZweibrückenHouseHesse-DarmstadtFatherLouis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-DarmstadtMotherCharlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg

Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt (11 July 1722 – 21 June 1782) was a Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was born in Darmstadt.

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 his friend's example, 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. 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.^{[citation needed]} 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	Birth	Death	Notes
Ludwig Georg Karl	1749	1823	Married morganatically in 1788 Friederike Schmidt, Baroness von Hessenheim
Georg Friedrich	1750
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	14 June 1754	28 January 1830
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	1757	1797
Friedrich Georg August	1759	1808	Married morganatically in 1788 Karoline Luise Seitz, Baroness von Friedrich
Louise Henriette Caroline	15 February 1761	24 October 1829	Married in 1777 Louis X of Hesse-Darmstadt, 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

Ancestors of Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt^[1]

8. Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

4. Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

9. Princess Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

2. Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

10. Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

5. Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach

11. Countess Sophie Margarete of Oettingen-Oettingen

1. Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt

12. Johann Reinhard II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

6. Johann Reinhard III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

13. Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler

3. Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg

14. John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

7. Princess Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach

15. Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Baden-Durlach

References

^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 68.

Johann Friedrich Schannat: Eiflia Illustrata... S. 515
Philipp Alexander Ferdinand Walther: Darmstadt wie es war und wie es geworden S. 187