Prince Charles William of Hesse-Darmstadt
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Prince Charles William
| title =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1693|6|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Nidda, Hesse-Darmstadt
| death_date = {{death date and age|1707|5|17|1693|6|17|df=yes}}
| death_place = Gießen, Hesse-Darmstadt
| house = House of Hesse-Darmstadt
| father = Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
| mother = Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach
}}
Karl Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt (17 June 1693, Nidda - 17 May 1707, Gießen) was a Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Life
Charles William was the second son of Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667–1739) from his marriage to Dorothea Charlotte (1661–1705), daughter of Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.{{cite book|title=Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans| trans-title=Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AINPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA67|year=1768|publisher=Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel|location=Bourdeaux|language=fr|page=67}}
When Charles William was four years-old, his father appointed him Colonel of the newly created Hesse-Darmstadt Kreis Regiment. Two years later, the education of Charles William was handed over to Johann Konrad Dippel in Gießen, where the Landgrave's family had fled before the advancing French troops.
Karl Wilhelm died at the age of 13, during the War of Spanish Succession. His younger brother Prince Francis Ernest of Hessen-Darmstadt took his place in the Regiment.
References
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- August Justus Alexander Keim (1845–1926): Geschichte des Infanterie-Leibregiments Grossherzogin (3. Grossherzogl. hessisches) Nr. 117 und seiner Stämme 1677-1902, Berlin, A. Bath, 1903
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=NJRnenQBOiwC#PPA147, M1 Gold Stephan Schmidt: Johann Konrad Dippel (1673–1734), p. 147 ff.]
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Category:House of Hesse-Darmstadt
Category:Princes of Hesse-Darmstadt
Category:Colonels (military rank)
Category:Military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession