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Ypres Salient †. Prince Maurice of Battenberg (Maurice Victor Donald; 3 October 1891 – 27 October 1914) was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British royal family, and the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria. He was known as Prince Maurice throughout his life, since he died before the British royal family ...
The Battenberg family is a non-dynastic cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, which ruled the Grand Duchy of Hesse until 1918. The first member was Julia Hauke, whose brother-in-law Grand Duke Louis III of Hesse created her Countess of Battenberg in 1851, with the style of Illustrious Highness (H.Ill.H.), at the time of her morganatic marriage to Grand Duke Louis's brother Prince ...
House of Bernadotte. Cadet branches. Mountbatten-Windsor. (by cognatic descent) The Mountbatten family is a British dynasty that originated as a British branch of the German princely Battenberg family. The name was adopted on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name from "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" to "Windsor", by ...
Added: Dec 18, 2005. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 12736468. Source citation. Prince Maurice Victor Donald of Battenberg was born at Balmoral Castle, the fourth and youngest child of Prince Henry of Battenberg and his wife, Princess Beatrice, the youngest child of Queen Victoria. He was styled His Highness Prince Maurice of Battenberg.
The Battenberg family was a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, rulers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Germany. The first member was Countess Julia Hauke whose brother-in-law, Grand Duke Louis III of Hesse, created her Countess of Battenberg at her morganatic marriage to his brother, Prince Alexander of Hesse, in 1851 and Princess ...
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Apr 26, 2022 · House of Battenberg (Cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt) Prince Maurice was the son of Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom. He died unmarried and without issue. Prince Maurice was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria ...
On 27th October 1914, the youngest grandson of Queen Victoria, Prince Maurice of Battenberg was killed at Passchendaele. Kaiser Wilhelm sent a message of condolence to his British relatives through an intermediary - the Crown Princess of Sweden who, unsurprisingly, was another grandchild of Queen Victoria.Throughout his life the 23 year old Lieutenant was known by his German
