ORIGINAL NAME: Friedrich Karl Ludwig Konstantin of Hesse-Kassel.
Finnish king. He was a German prince and landgrave belonging to the Brabant Dynasty. His name is spelled here in legal Finnish, since he lived after 1900, as opposed to Frederick Charles/Carl which he also has been called in English. He was elected the only independent King of Finland in 1918, but resigned two months later because of political opposition. It has been asserted and widely published that his plan was to use the regal name of Väinö I. but that never had time to materialize. A fabulous crown was designed for him but was not created, and then only as a museum piece, until it was too late. Until the last Russian Tsar resigned as Grand Prince of Finland in 1917 the monarchs with that title had been elected according to a constitution established by King Gustav III of Sweden in 1772, when Finland was a part of Sweden. After the Finnish Civil War, the war of the Reds and Whites, came to an end in 1918, the same constitutional paragraph was able to be used to choose him as Finnish king. He was chosen as a gesture of cooperation between Finland and the German Empire, since his wife was a sister of that Emperor. The couple had six sons. After his resignation as king, Finland became the republic it is today, and he spent the rest of his life running the family and certain political affairs of the Landgraviate of Hesse.
Finnish king. He was a German prince and landgrave belonging to the Brabant Dynasty. His name is spelled here in legal Finnish, since he lived after 1900, as opposed to Frederick Charles/Carl which he also has been called in English. He was elected the only independent King of Finland in 1918, but resigned two months later because of political opposition. It has been asserted and widely published that his plan was to use the regal name of Väinö I. but that never had time to materialize. A fabulous crown was designed for him but was not created, and then only as a museum piece, until it was too late. Until the last Russian Tsar resigned as Grand Prince of Finland in 1917 the monarchs with that title had been elected according to a constitution established by King Gustav III of Sweden in 1772, when Finland was a part of Sweden. After the Finnish Civil War, the war of the Reds and Whites, came to an end in 1918, the same constitutional paragraph was able to be used to choose him as Finnish king. He was chosen as a gesture of cooperation between Finland and the German Empire, since his wife was a sister of that Emperor. The couple had six sons. After his resignation as king, Finland became the republic it is today, and he spent the rest of his life running the family and certain political affairs of the Landgraviate of Hesse.
ORIGINAL NAME: Friedrich Karl Ludwig Konstantin of Hesse-Kassel.
Finnish king. He was a German prince and landgrave belonging to the Brabant Dynasty. His name is spelled here in legal Finnish, since he lived after 1900, as opposed to Frederick Charles/Carl which he also has been called in English. He was elected the only independent King of Finland in 1918, but resigned two months later because of political opposition. It has been asserted and widely published that his plan was to use the regal name of Väinö I. but that never had time to materialize. A fabulous crown was designed for him but was not created, and then only as a museum piece, until it was too late. Until the last Russian Tsar resigned as Grand Prince of Finland in 1917 the monarchs with that title had been elected according to a constitution established by King Gustav III of Sweden in 1772, when Finland was a part of Sweden. After the Finnish Civil War, the war of the Reds and Whites, came to an end in 1918, the same constitutional paragraph was able to be used to choose him as Finnish king. He was chosen as a gesture of cooperation between Finland and the German Empire, since his wife was a sister of that Emperor. The couple had six sons. After his resignation as king, Finland became the republic it is today, and he spent the rest of his life running the family and certain political affairs of the Landgraviate of Hesse.
Finnish king. He was a German prince and landgrave belonging to the Brabant Dynasty. His name is spelled here in legal Finnish, since he lived after 1900, as opposed to Frederick Charles/Carl which he also has been called in English. He was elected the only independent King of Finland in 1918, but resigned two months later because of political opposition. It has been asserted and widely published that his plan was to use the regal name of Väinö I. but that never had time to materialize. A fabulous crown was designed for him but was not created, and then only as a museum piece, until it was too late. Until the last Russian Tsar resigned as Grand Prince of Finland in 1917 the monarchs with that title had been elected according to a constitution established by King Gustav III of Sweden in 1772, when Finland was a part of Sweden. After the Finnish Civil War, the war of the Reds and Whites, came to an end in 1918, the same constitutional paragraph was able to be used to choose him as Finnish king. He was chosen as a gesture of cooperation between Finland and the German Empire, since his wife was a sister of that Emperor. The couple had six sons. After his resignation as king, Finland became the republic it is today, and he spent the rest of his life running the family and certain political affairs of the Landgraviate of Hesse.
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