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16 unusual facts about Landgrave of Hesse


Adolphus FitzGeorge

Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)

Anna Maria of Hesse-Kassel

He had met Anna Maria during his Grand Tour and had been well received by Anna Maria's father and her uncle Louis IV.

Christine of Saxony

# Louis IV of Hesse-Marburg (27 May 1537 – 9 October 1604).

Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg

She married on 10 May 1563 in Stuttgart Landgrave Louis IV of Hesse-Marburg (1537–1604).

Duchess Sabine of Württemberg

She married on 11 February 1566 in Marburg Landgrave William IV of Hesse-Kassel, whose younger brother Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg was already married with Sabines older sister Hedwig and whom she had met when William negotiated Louis's marriage with her father.

Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti

He is married to Princess and Landgravine Mafalda Margherita of Hesse, daughter of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse.

Hesse-Marburg

When, in 1604 Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg died without male issue, he bequeathed equal shares of his territory to the landgraviates of Hesse-Kassel (Marburg) and Hesse-Darmstadt (Gießen, Nidda), yet under the condition that both territories should remain Lutheran.

History of Hesse

The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel expanded in 1604 when Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, inherited the Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg from his childless uncle, Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (1537–1604).

Landgraviate of Hesse

Hesse-Marburg (line extinct in 1604, incorporated into Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt) to Louis IV

Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt

His eldest brother William IV received the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, while the second son Louis IV obtained Hesse-Marburg, and the third Philipp II became Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels.

Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel

The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel expanded in 1604 when Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel inherited the Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg from his childless uncle, Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (1537–1604).

Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

In 1604 he inherited a part of Hessen-Marburg after the death of Louis IV of Hesse-Marburg who was childless.

Pietro Locatelli

Locatelli's last known stop was in Kassel, where he received the very high payment of 80 reichsthaler after his visit to Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, on 7 December 1728.

Prince Wolfgang of Hesse

Sjöström (2013) bases the succession to the stipulations of the 1772 Instrument of Government, reporting that the heir and successor were Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse and Brabant, eldest son of the brother.

The Prince of Homburg

Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1633-1708), also known as Prince Friedrich of Homburg (Prinz Friedrich von Homburg)

Wiesbaden-Breckenheim

Breckenheim and other villages in the area were sold in 1492 to William III, the landgrave of Upper Hesse, and was passed to Hesse-Marburg in 1567, then in 1604 to Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), then to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1624.


Hersfeld Abbey

The town of Hersfeld, now Bad Hersfeld, grew up outside the abbey, and flourished, to the extent that it found itself strong enough to assert its independence, and in 1371 formally placed itself under the protection of the Landgraves of Hesse.

Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel

Her father's older brother was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.