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Christine was born in Kassel as a daughter of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and his spouse Christine of Saxony. She was given a strict Protestant upbringing by her aunt Elizabeth, Dowager Duchess of Saxony. Christine received a proposal from King Eric XIV of Sweden, but this did not come about. Her wedding celebration resulted in a scandal, when ...
Christine von Hessen was a German noblewoman, belonging to the Hessen-Eschwege branch of the Hessen-Rotenburg line of the House of Hesse. Through her marriage on 25 November 1667 in Eschwege to Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg , she became Duchess-Consort of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern.
Christine of Hesse (1543–1604)Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp. Born on June 29, 1543; died on May 13, 1604; daughter of Philip I, landgrave of Hesse, and Christine of Saxony (1505–1549); married Adolf (1526–1586), duke of Holstein-Gottorp (r. Source for information on Christine of Hesse (1543–1604): Women in World History: A Biographical ...
Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken. Christine von Hessen (30 October 1648 – 18 March 1702) was a German noblewoman, belonging to the Hessen-Eschwege branch of the Hessen-Rotenburg line of the House of Hesse. Through her marriage on 25 November 1667 in Eschwege to Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1636-1687 ...
Prince Henry. Prince Wilhelm. v. t. e. Augusta of Prussia (Christine Friederike Auguste; 1 May 1780 – 19 February 1841) was a German salonist, painter, and Electress consort of Hesse by marriage to William II, Elector of Hesse. She was the third daughter and fifth child of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt .
Alexandra Feodorovna ( Russian: Александра Фёдоровна; born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, 6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918) was the last Empress of Russia from 1894 to March 1917 as the wife of Emperor Nicholas II. After she and her family were all murdered in the Russian Revolution, she was canonized as a passion bearer by ...
Christine of Hesse-Cassel (1933—) Princess. Born Christina Marguerite on January 10, 1933, in Schloss Kronberg; daughter of Christopher Ernest, prince of Hesse, and Sophia of Greece (b. 1914); married Andrei or Andrej Karadjordjevic (son of Alexander I, king of Yugoslavia), on August 1, 1956 (divorced 1962); married Robert Floris van Eyck, on ...
