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Princess Maria Anna of Hesse Homburg

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Name
  
Princess Anna


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Born
  
13 October 1785 Bad Homburg vor der Hohe (
1785-10-13
)

Issue
  
Princess Friederike (died in infancy) Princess Irene (stillborn) unnamed son (stillborn) Prince Tassilo (died in infancy) Prince Adalbert Prince Tassilo (died in infancy) Elisabeth, Princess Karl of Hesse and by Rhine Prince Waldemar Marie, Queen of Bavaria

House
  
House of Hesse (by birth) House of Hohenzollern (by marriage)

Father
  
Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Mother
  
Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt

Died
  
April 14, 1846, Berlin, Germany

Spouse
  
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (m. 1804–1846)

Children
  
Marie of Prussia, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Prince Adalbert of Prussia

Parents
  
Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt

Grandchildren
  
Ludwig II of Bavaria, Otto of Bavaria

Similar People
  
Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Marie of Prussia, Princess Anna of Hesse an, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Otto of Bavaria

Princess Marianne of Prussia, born Marie Anne Amalie, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (13 October 1785, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe – 14 April 1846, Berlin) was a German noblewoman. She acted as the first lady of Prussia from 1810–40.

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Life

She was the twelfth child (and sixth daughter) of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg and Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, thus being a granddaughter of Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, known as the "great Landgräfin".

Maria Anna belonged to the anti-Napoleon-party around Queen Louise and supported the war against France in 1806. She followed the royal house in its escape from the French occupation.

After the death of Queen Louise in 1810, she acted as first lady in official occasions. In March 1813, she proclaimed the famous "Aufruf der königlichen Prinzessinnen an die Frauen im preußischen Staate" and founded the patriotic women's association "Vaterländischen Frauenverein." She corresponded with Freiherr vom Stein, von Hardenberg and the Humboldt brothers and was an acquaintance of the poet Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. In 1822, she was in love with Count Anton of Stolberg-Wernigerode, who later became Prussian Minister of State. She was active in prison care at the Berliner Gefängnisinsassen and founded an orphanage in Pankow in Berlin.

Marriage and issue

She married in 1804 to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783-1851), her first cousin, and they had seven children:

  • Princess Amalie Friederike Luise Karoline Wilhelmine of Prussia (4 July 1805 - 23 November 1805); died in infancy.
  • Princess Irene of Prussia (born and died 3 November 1806); stillborn.
  • Unnamed son (born and died 30 August 1809); stillborn.
  • Prince Friedrich Tassilo Wilhelm of Prussia (29 October 1811 - 9 January 1813); died in infancy.
  • Prince Heinrich Wilhelm Adalbert of Prussia (29 October 1811 - 6 June 1873); married morganatically, in 1850, Therese Elssler and had issue.
  • Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Tassilo of Prussia (15 November 1813 - 9 January 1814); died in infancy.
  • Princess Marie Elisabeth Karoline Viktoria of Prussia (18 June 1815 - 21 March 1885); married, in 1836, Prince Karl of Hesse and by Rhine and had issue.
  • Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar of Prussia (2 August 1817 - 17 February 1849)
  • Princess Marie Friederike Franziska Hedwig of Prussia (15 October 1825 - 17 May 1889); married, in 1842, King Maximilian II of Bavaria and had issue.

    • References

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