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Princess Christine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel

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Princess Christine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel
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Princess Christine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (11 February 1725 – 4 June 1782) was a Hessian princess who lived as a secular canoness before becoming a coadjutor princess-abbess of Herford Abbey.

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Biography

Princess Christina Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel was born in Kassel on 11 February 1725 to Prince Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was a sister of Caroline, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst; Princess Henry of Prussia; and Princess Ulrike, Duchess of Oldenburg. Christina Charlotte was a granddaughter of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel on her father's side and Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt on her mother's side.

She was painted by Johann Heinrich Tischbein in 1754.[1]

A staunch Calvinist, Christina Charlotte chose a religious life. On 17 April 1765, she became a secular canoness at Herford Abbey, a Lutheran imperial abbey in Saxony. On 12 July 1766, she was appointed coadjutor abbess of Herford, where she ruled alongside Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt.[2] She resigned from her position in 1779.[3]

Christina Charlotte died on 4 June 1782 in Kassel.

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