Prince Georg o Hesse-Darmstadt
Prince Georg Ludwig o Hesse-Darmstadt (1669 – 13 September 1705) wis a Field Marshal in the Austrick airmy. He is kent for his career in Habsburg Spain, as Viceroy o Catalonia (1698–1701), heid o the Austrian airmy in the War o the Spaingie Succession (1701–1705) an governor o Gibraltar in 1704. He wis killed during the Siege o Barcelona the following year. He wis kent in Spaingie as Jorge de Darmstadt an in Catalan as Jordi Darmstadt. His mither wis a dochter o Ernst I, Duke o Saxe-Gotha.
Prince Georg o Hesse-Darmstadt | |
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Born | 1669 Darmstadt, Hesse, HRE |
Dee'd | 13 September 1705 Barcelona, Spain | (aged 36)
Faither | Ludwig VI, Landgrave o Hesse-Darmstadt |
Mither | Princess Elisabeth Dorothea o Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg |