Prince Francis Ernest of Hesse-Darmstadt

Francis Ernest of Hesse-Darmstadt
Father Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Mother Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Born (1695-01-25)25 January 1695
Nidda
Died 8 January 1716(1716-01-08) (aged 20)
Gießen

Francis Ernest of Hesse-Darmstadt (born 25 January 1695 in Gießen; died: 8 January 1716 in Darmstadt) was a German nobleman.

He was the third son of Count Landgrave Ernest Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667–1739) from his marriage to Dorothea Charlotte (1661–1705), daughter of the Margrave Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

He replaced his brother Charles William of Hesse-Darmstadt as Colonel of the Hesse-Darmstadt Kreis Regiment when Charles William died during the War of Spanish Succession.

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