| | boys clothing: German royalty--Hesse |
 | | Hesse was estanlished as a separate landgraviate in 1247 by Duchess Sophia, niece of the Thuringian ruler, Henry Raspe. |
 | | Two of these lines became extinct and were adsorbed by the surviving lines: Hesse-Daarmstadt and Hesse-Cassel which survived into the 19th and 20th century. |
 | | Although Hesse-Darmstadt also supported Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866), unlike Hesse-Kassel, it managed to maintain its independence when the Prussians proved victorious. |
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