Princess Christine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel
Princess Christine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel was a Hessian princess who lived as a secular canoness before becoming a coadjutor princess-abbess of Herford Abbey.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.
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. She resigned from her position in 1779.
Christina Charlotte died on 4 June 1782 in Kassel.
