Everything about William Vi Landgrave Of Hesse-kassel totally explained
William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (
23 May 1629,
Kassel -
16 July 1663,
Haina), known as William the Just, was
Landgrave of
Hesse-Kassel from
1637 to
1663.
Life
He was the son of
William V (whom he succeeded) and his wife
Amalie Elisabeth,
Gräfin of
Hanau-Münzenberg. His mother remained his guardian until he came of age. Despite Hesse-Kassel's defeat in the
Thirty Years' War, William's mother didn't wish to acknowledge the accord of 1627. This required that the unmarried
Marburger heir and the
Landgraves of Hessen-Darmstadt should fall, but Amalie Elisabeth had other ideas and led Hesse-Kessel in 1645 into the "Hessenkrieg", ruling as Landgräfin on her son's behalf. This war began when Hesse-Kassel's troops began to besiege the city of Marburg. Three years later, in 1648, the war ended with a victory for Kassel, although the citizens of Darmstadt also gained from it. Domination over the Marburger territories went over to the landgrave of Hesse-Kassel after the accord was dissolved and a new agreement was reached. William VI succeeded in what its ancestors had tried to do in vain since 1604, that is, to end the Hesse-Marburg landgraviate, and to annex the Marburger lands to Hesse-Kassel.
After these wars, William attended above all to the extension of the universities within his domains and the foundation of more new
Lehranstalts. To finally resolve the quarrel with the landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt, Wilhelm delivered to
George II the territory around
Gießen, along with
Ämtern by
Biedenkopf.
Shortly before his death, William joined the
League of the Rhine on its foundation in 1658. He also sought to effect a union between his
Lutheran and
Reformed subjects, or at least to lessen their mutual hatred. In 1661 he'd a
colloquy held in
Kassel between the Lutheran theologians of the
University of Rinteln and the Reformed theologians of the
University of Marburg.
On William VI's death, he bequeathed control of his Landgraviate to his eldest son William VII, though - not yet of age - he remained under the guardianship of his mother Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg until his early death in 1670.
Marriage and issue
He married Hedwig Sophie (1623–1683), daughter of daughter of
George William, Elector of Brandenburg and
Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palantine. Their children were:
Further Information
Get more info on 'William Vi Landgrave Of Hesse-kassel'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://william_vi__landgrave_of_hesse-kassel.totallyexplained.com">William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
