Caroline of Berlepsch

Caroline of Berlepsch ( born January 9, 1820 Hersfeld, † February 21, 1877 in Knauthain (now Leipzig ) from the family of Berlepsch was the third wife of the Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse -Kassel (* 1777, † 1847). He married her after the death of his second wife, Countess Emilie of Reichenbach- Lessonitz, on 28 August 1843 in Wilhelmsbad (now Hanau ) also morganatic, as they came from the lesser nobility and thus was not befitting.

Caroline was the daughter of Hermann Ludwig von Berlepsch and Melusine von Kruse and 43 years younger than her husband. Principal residence of the couple was Frankfurt am Main, as the Elector in 1830 abdicated and in fact the government had, at first, befitting marriage left to his son, Frederick William I, .

The Elector rose Karoline in 1844 to a baroness by mountains and they received in 1846 the Austrian title of Countess of mountains. After the death of her husband in 1847, she married in Frankfurt in 1851 and again although Graf Karl Adolph von Hohen Thal ( born November 27, 1811 in Dölkau; † October 9, 1875 in Knauthain ).