Adolph, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
{{Short description|Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld from 1777 to 1803}}
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| name = Adolph
| image = Adolf von Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld.jpg
| caption =
| title = Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
| house = Hesse
| father = William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
| mother = Charlotte Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym
| spouse = {{marriage|Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen|1781}}
| issue = Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
Prince Ernest Frederick
| birth_date = {{birth_date|1743|6|29|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Ypres
| death_date = {{death date and age|1803|7|17|1743|6|29|df=yes}}
| death_place = Barchfeld
}}
Adolph, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (29 June 1743 in Ypres – 17 July 1803 in Barchfeld) was a member of the House of Hesse. He was the ruling Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld from 1777 until his death.
Life
Adolph was a son of the Landgrave William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1692-1761) from his marriage with Charlotte Wilhelmine (1704-1766), daughter of Prince Lebrecht of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym. Adolph succeeded his childless brother Frederick as Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld in 1777.
He began his career in the service of his Hesse-Kassel. He then went in the Dutch service, where he later became a colonel in the 3rd Infantry Regiment of Orange-Nassau. In 1773, he joined the Prussian army and became chief of the Fusilier Regiment No. 55. Here he gained the favor of Frederick II and on 16 January 1777 he was appointed to Major General. He fought in the Bavarian War of Succession and was attacked by General Wurmser and taken prisoner by the Austrians at Habelschwerdt in 1779. In 1780 he resigned from the military and retired to Barchfeld.
He acquired the Nesselröden estate in 1794 and three years later sold the Wehra property to the Treasury of Hesse-Kassel for {{gaps|24|000|Thaler}}.
Marriage and issue
Landgrave Adolph married on 18 October 1781 in Meiningen with Louise (1752-1805), a daughter of the Duke Anton Ulrich of Sachsen-Meiningen from his marriage with Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal. With her he had the following children:
- Friedrich Carl Wilhelm Ludwig (1782-1783)
- Charles (1784-1854), Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
: married firstly in 1816 to Princess Auguste of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1793-1821)
: married secondly in 1823 to Princess Sophie of Bentheim and Steinfurt (1794-1873)
- William (1786-1834)
: married in 1812 to Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark (1788-1850)
- George (1787-1788)
- Ernest Frederick (1789-1850), never married
- Charlotte (1794-1794)
Ancestry
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| 2= 2. William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
| 3= 3. Charlotte Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
| 4= 4. Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal
| 5= 5. Catherine Amalie of Solms-Laubach
| 6= 6. Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym
| 7= 7. Baroness Eberhardine Jacobine Wilhelmine of Weede
| 8= 8. William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
| 9= 9. Hedwig Sophia of Brandenburg
| 10= 10. Charles Otto of Solms-Laubach
| 11= 11. Amöne Elisabeth of Bentheim
| 12= 12. Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
| 13= 13. Countess Palatine Elisabeth of Zweibrücken
| 14= 14. John George, Baron of Weede
| 15= 15. Marie of Raesfeldt
| 16= 16. William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
| 17= 17. Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau
| 18= 18. George William, Elector of Brandenburg
| 19= 19. Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate
| 20= 20. Albert Otto II of Solms-Laubach
| 21= 21. Catharina Juliana of Hanau
| 22= 22. Arnold Jobst of Bentheim
| 23= 23. Anna Amalia of Ysenburg
| 24= 24. Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
| 25= 25. Eleonore Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
| 26= 26. Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
| 27= 27. Anna Juliana of Nassau-Saarbruck
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References
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- Johann Samuel Ersch (ed.): [https://books.google.com/books?id=zL1VAf-6r_oC&pg=PA297&dq=wilhelm+hessen-philippsthal-barchfeld&lr=&hl=de Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetischer ... p. 297]
- Eduard Lange, Die soldaten Friedrich's des Grossen, p. 259 [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_pqNDAAAAYAAJ/page/n294 Online]
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