Princess Marianne of Prussia ( (23 of August 19131 March 1983) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern

House of Hohenzollern

The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of electors, kings and emperors of Prussia, Germany and Romania. It originated in the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia during the 11th century. They took their name from their ancestral home, the Burg Hohenzollern castle near...

, daughter of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia was a member of the House of Hohenzollern, great-grandson of Frederick William III of Prussia.-Early life and education:...

.

Early life

Marianne was born at Kamieniec Palace in Kamenz

Kamieniec Zabkowicki

Kamieniec Ząbkowicki is a village in Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Kamieniec Ząbkowicki. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany under the name of Kamenz. Kamieniec Zabkowicki is an important...

, Kingdom of Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

, (now Kamieniec Ząbkowicki

Kamieniec Zabkowicki

Kamieniec Ząbkowicki is a village in Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Kamieniec Ząbkowicki. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany under the name of Kamenz. Kamieniec Zabkowicki is an important...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

) third daughter of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia was a member of the House of Hohenzollern, great-grandson of Frederick William III of Prussia.-Early life and education:...

 (1880–1925), (son of Prince Albert of Prussia and Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg

Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1854–1898)

Princess Marie Friederike Leopoldine Georgine Auguste Alexandra Elisabeth Therese Josephine Helene Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg was the wife of Prince Albert of Prussia, Regent for the duchy of Brunswick.-Family:...

) and his wife, Princess Agatha of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

Princess Agatha of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

Princess Agatha of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst was a German noblewoman. She was the daughter of Victor II, Duke of Ratibor, and his wife, Countess Maria Breunner-Enkevoirth.-Issue:...

 (1888–1960), (daughter of Victor II, Duke of Ratibor

Victor II, Duke of Ratibor

Victor II, Duke of Ratibor, Prince of Corvey, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst was a member of House of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and Duke of the Silesian duchy of Ratibor .-Early life and family:...

 and Countess Maria Breunner-Enkevoirth). She was descendant of King Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel .-Early life:...

 and King William I of the Netherlands

William I of the Netherlands

William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau , was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg....

. She was named after her great-grandmother Princess Marianne of the Netherlands

Princess Marianne of the Netherlands

Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau , was a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, by birth Princess of the Kingdom of the United Netherlands and by marriage Princess of the Kingdom of Prussia.-Family:Born in Berlin, she was the youngest child and second daughter of King...

. She was third cousin of William, German Crown Prince.

Marriage

Marianne married 30 January 1933 at Tabarz

Tabarz

Tabarz is a municipality in the district of Gotha, in Thuringia, Germany. It is a winter sports resort and the terminus of the Thüringerwaldbahn rural tramway....

 to Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1905–1942), son of Chlodwig, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld, and his wife, Princess Caroline of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich.

They had three children:

• Wilhelm, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
  Wilhelm, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
  Wilhelm, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld is the current head of the branch of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld, one of the two remaining branches of the House of Hesse.-Early life and family:...
  
   (born 14 August 1933), married in 1961 to Oda-Mathilde von Garmissen, had issue.
• Prince Hermann of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 21 August 1935), married in 1962 to Countess Monika Strachwitz of Gross-Zauche and Camminetz, had issue.
• Princess Johanna of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (born 22 November 1937), married in 1957 to Alfons Kuhn, had issue, divorced in 1961; Married secondly in 1963 to Bruno Riek, had issue.

Ancestry