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Apr 12, 2020 · Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt (German: Ludwig) (December 15, 1719 – May 13, 1790) was the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1768 - 1790. Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
He was the son of Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse and Margarete, daughter of Frederick V of Nuremberg . He married Anna [5 June 1420 - 17 September 1462] daughter of Frederick I, Elector of Saxony on 13 September 1436. Their children were: Louis II (7 September 1438 - 8 November 1471) Henry III (15 October 1440 - 13 January 1483)
Ernest Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt ( German: Ernst Ludwig) (15 December 1667 – 12 September 1739) was Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1678 to 1739. His parents were Landgrave Louis VI of Hesse-Darmstadt and Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1640–1709). Ernest Louis's desire to emulate the French court under Louis XIV ran his ...
Louis I of Hesse (German: Ludwig) (6 February 1402 - 17 January 1458), called "the Peaceful", was Landgrave of Lower Hesse (Hesse) from 1413 to 1458. He was born at Spangenberg, the son of Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse and Margaret, the daughter of Frederick V of Nuremberg. He married Anna (5 June 1420 - 17 September 1462) daughter of Frederick I, Elector of Saxony on 13 September 1436. Their ...
Mechthild of Württemberg-Urach. William II (29 April 1469 – 11 July 1509) was Landgrave of Lower Hesse from 1493 and Landgrave of Upper Hesse after the death of his cousin, William III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse in 1500. This immediately sparked the War of the Katzenelnbogen Succession, in which William sought to enforce his claim on the ...
Gertrude of Aldenberg. Father. Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia. Mother. Sophia of Wittelsbach. Louis IV the Saint ( German: Ludwig IV. der Heilige; 28 October 1200 – 11 September 1227), a member of the Ludovingian dynasty, was Landgrave of Thuringia and Saxon Count palatine from 1217 until his death. He was the husband of Elizabeth of Hungary .
Landgrave Moritz was born at Racconigi Castle, in Italy. During the Second World War, Moritz's mother, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, was arrested by the Nazis for alleged subversive activities and died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 as a result of a U.S. bombing raid on the camp. Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine, the last head of ...
