Editing Frederick I of Sweden (section)

==Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel==
Frederick became [[Landgrave of Hesse]] only in 1730, ten years after becoming King of Sweden. He immediately appointed his younger brother [[William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel|William]] governor of Hesse.

As Landgrave, Frederick is generally not seen as a success. Indeed, he did concentrate more on Sweden, and due to his negotiated, compromise-like ascension to the throne there, he and his court had a very low income. The money for that very expensive court, then, since the 1730s came from wealthy [[Hesse]], and this means that Frederick essentially behaved like an [[absentee landlord]] and drained Hessian resources to finance life in Sweden. Also, Frederick's father, [[Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel|Charles I of Hesse-Kassel]], had been the state's most successful ruler, rebuilding the state over his decades-long rule by means of economic and infrastructure measures and state reform, as well as [[Toleration|tolerance]], such as attracting, for economic purposes, the French [[Huguenot]]s. His brother the governor, who would succeed Frederick as Landgrave [[William VIII of Hesse-Kassel]], though by background a distinguished soldier, was likewise a great success locally. There are very few physical remainders of Frederick in Hesse today; one of them is his large Royal Swedish [[Signature|paraph]] (FR) over the old door of the [[University of Marburg]]'s former riding hall, now the Institute of Physical Education.