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  boys clothing: Hessian royalty -- Prince Louis of Battenburg
She was the daughter of Louis IV of Hesse and Princess Alice.
Princess Alberta Victoria was the eldest daughter of Louis IV of Hesse and Princess Alice, Queen Victoria second daughter.
Louis of Burma, Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-)
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  Hesse-Darmstadt - LoveToKnow 1911
In 1803, having formally surrendered the part of Hesse on the left bank of the Rhine which had been taken from him in the early days of the Revolution, Louis received in return a much larger district which had formerly belonged to the duchy of Westphalia, the electorate of Mainz and the bishopric of Worms.
Louis secured again a district on the left bank of the Rhine, including the cities of Mainz and Worms, but he made cessions of territory to Prussia and to Bavaria and he recognized the independence of HesseHomburg, which had recently been incorporated with his lands.
Louis I., who did a great deal for the welfare of his country, died on the 6th of April 1830, and was followed on the throne by his son, Louis II.
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 SIXTH GENERATION
Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse was born in 1837.
ii. Elizabeth (Ella) of Hesse was born in 1864.
vi. Alix of Hesse Empress of Russia was born on 6 Jun 1872 in Darmstadt.
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 Kingdoms of Germany - Hesse
Hesse is unified with remaining Hessen territories not already under its control (including Hessen-Marburg) to form a single, elevated Duchy of Hesse.
Created from the division of the Duchy of Hesse, Kassel was the largest of the four new Hessen states, being the most senior and dominant, and owner of approximately half the former duchy's lands.
Hesse is proclaimed a Republic after the fall of the German Empire.
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 Hesse-Marburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elizabeth of Hungary, Sophie of Brabant, was able to secure the Western parts of Thuringia for her son Henry the Child (1265), therefore founding the state of Hesse, the Marburg area became its core.
When, in 1604 Landgrave Louis IV of Hesse-Marburg died without male issue, he bequeathed equal shares of his territory to the lines of Hesse-Kassel (Marburg) and Hesse-Darmstadt (Gießen, Nidda), yet under the condition that both territories should remain Lutheran (Hesse-Kassel was Calvinist).
However, in the Hesse War of 1645-1648, which was a sub-conflict of the Thirty Years' War, the two lines, which were on different sides, again fought over the territory.
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 My Family
Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (Prince) was born in 1907.
Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (Prince) was born in 1944.
Louis IV of Hesse (Grand Duke) was born in 1837.
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 Palatinate
When the senior branch of the family died out in 1559, the Electorate passed to Frederick III of Simmern, a staunch Calvinist, and the Palatinate became one of the major centers of Calvinism in Europe, supporting Calvinist rebellions in both the Netherlands and France.
Frederick III's grandson, Frederick IV, and his adviser, Christian of Anhalt[?], founded the Evangelical Union[?] of Protestant states in 1608, and in 1619 Elector Frederick V (the son-in-law of King James I of England) accepted the throne of Bohemia from rebellious Protestant noblemen.
He was soon defeated by the forces of Emperor Ferdinand II at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, and Spanish and Bavarian troops soon occupied the Palatinate itself.
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 Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches
This was to Sophie of Thuringia, daughter of the Landgrave Louis VI.
Hesse turns up, curiously, in the history of the American Revolution, since Hessian troups were hired out to King George III and sent to fight against the colonists.
Rudolf IV of Hapsburg got himself elected Emperor, the first after the Great Interregnum (1254-1273) which followed the fall of the Hohenstaufen, and used his power to obtain the Duchy of Austria, killing Ottokar II, Duke of Austria and King of Bohemia, at the Battle of Dürnkrut in 1278.
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 Alexander Palace Time Machine - Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse
Ernst Ludwig, destined to be the last Grand Duke of Hesse und bei Rhein, was born in November of 1868.
He was one of seven children born to the future Grand Duke Ludwig IV and Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland, second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the Prince Consort.
The 1880s saw the marriages of Ernie's two eldest sisters, Victoria to Prince Louis of Battenberg, the future Marquess of Milford Haven, and Elizabeth to Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich, son of Emperor Alexander II and Empress Maria Alexandrovna, herself a Hessian princess.
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 20TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Princess Elizabeth Marie of PRUSSIA Grand Duchess of Hesse was born in 1815 in Prussia - dtr of Frederick.
She was married to Charles of HESSE (son of Grand Duke Ludwig II HESSE and Wilhelmina of BADEN Grand Duchess of Hesse) before 1837.
Charles of HESSE was born in 1809 in Hesse - son of Ludwig II.
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 Hesse Gremany, Hessen Germany, History, Genealogy, Family History, Hessen Deutschland. Hessians.
Louis at the same time received the protectorate of the most important religious foundations of the land, and for a period of more than a century the union of Hesse and Thuringia continued unbroken.
In 1806 Louis received the title of Grand Duke (Louis I); at the Congress of Vienna he received in compensation for the Duchy of Westphalia, which fell to Prussia, the old ecclesiastical and palatinate lands on the left bank of the Rhine together with the towns Mainz and Worms.
Hesse therefore took part in the negotiations of several German states, which resulted in the erection of the ecclesiastical province of the Upper Rhine by the papal Bulls “Provida solersque” (1821) and “Ad Dominici gregis custodiam” (1827).
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 Louis
Louis (St.) is usually represented as holding the Saviour's crown of thorns and the cross, sometimes, however, he is represented with a pilgrim's staff, and sometimes with the standard of the cross, the allusion in all cases being to his crusades.
Louis IV of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach, born 1282, was duke of Bavaria from 1294, duke of the Palatinate from 1329 and, after 1314, Holy Roman Emperor.
Louis VII died on November 18, 1180 at the Abbey at Saint-Pont, Allier and is interred in Saint Denis Basilica.
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 HESSE - Online Information article about HESSE   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0.
Louis secured again a district on the left bank of the Rhine, including the cities of Mainz and Worms, but he made cessions of territory to See also:
Frankfort-on-Main, parts of the grand-duchy of Hesse, the territory of Homburg and the countship of Hesse-Homburg, together with certain small districts which belonged to Bavaria.
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 Worldroots.com
0 Hesse, Alexander Frederick of, Landgrave of Hesse
1471 Hesse, William I the Elder of, Landgrave of Hesse
1509 Hesse, Philip I the Magnanimous of, Landgrave of Hesse
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 (Litwinde - Luitgard )
Louis I the Pious of Aquitaine (Aug 0778 - 0840)
Louis II of Hesse and the Rhine (1777 - 1848)
Ludwig IX of Hesse- Darmstadt (____ - ____)
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 The Former Ruling House of Hesse and the Rhine, 1939-1945   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Johanna, Princess of Hesse and the Rhine (1936-1939).
Alexander, Prince of Hesse and the Rhine (1823-1888)
Descendants of Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Cassel (1532-1592)
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 boys clothing: Battenburg Mounbatten -- Lord Mounbatten of Burma
Louis mother was Princess Victoria Alberta of Hesse in 1884.
The Grand Duke Louis IV was not pleased because of the loyly rank of Prince Louis' mother.
Louis had an ally, however, Queen Victoria, and the matter was settled.
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 My Family
Parents: Louis IV of Hesse (Grand Duke) and Alice Maud Mary (Princess).
Frederick Charles of Hesse was born in 1868.
Frederick William IV (King of Prussia) was born on 15 Oct 1795 in Berlin, Germany.
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 Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis IV (Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Karl) (12 September 1837 - 13 March 1892), was the fourth Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 13 June 1877 until his death.
Louis was born at Darmstadt, Germany as the son of Prince Charles of Hesse-Darmstadt (23 April 1809-20 March 1877) and Princess Elizabeth of Prussia (18 June 1815-21 March 1855), granddaughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia.
Following the death of Princess Alice in 1878, Ludwig IV contracted a morganatic marriage on 30 April 1884 with Alexandrina Hutten-Czapska (3 September 1854-8 May 1941), the former wife of Alexander Kolémine, the Russian chargé d'affaires in Darmstadt.
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 21ST GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Louis IV of HESSE was born on 12 Sep 1837 in Hesse-Darmstadt (Grand Duke Ludvig).
He was married to Alice Maud Mary of ENGLAND Duchess of Saxony (daughter of Prince Albert of ENGLAND Prince Consort and Queen VICTORIA Regina of ENGLAND HM Queen England Empress of India) in 1862.
Alice Maud Mary of ENGLAND Duchess of Saxony was born in 1843 in England.
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 History 5   (Site not responding. Last check: )
France emerges from religious war in 1598 with the Edict of Nantes > religious tolerance and strong monarch Henri IV.
Turbulent period, but monarchy also extends under Louis XIII (1610-43) and regency of Anne and Mazarin (1643-53).
Louis' reign lays the groundwork for French growth in 18th c.
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 Lord Mountbatten: admiral lord louis mountbatten
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British admiral and statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
His maternal grandparents were Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
His second son acquired the courtesy style Lord Louis Mountbatten and was known as Lord Louis informally until his death notwithstanding his being granted a viscountcy in recognition of his wartime service in the Far East and an earldom for his role in the transition of India from British dependency to sovereign state.
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 Royal Genealogies Part 14
She allied France with Spain and arranged the marriage in 1615 of Louis to Princess Anne of Austria, dau.
For most of his reign Louis was dominated by Cardinal Richelieu, who joined his council of ministers in 1624 through the efforts of Maried de Medicis and served eventually as prince minister until his death in 1642.
Louis was succeeded by his son Louis XIV.
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 Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter
1865 (745) Louis III, Grand-Duke of Hesse and the Rhine.
Fought for Edward IV at the battle of Towton.
Son and heir of George, 12th Lord Ros, whose monument, with that of his wife, Anne St. Leger, niece of Edward IV, is in the Ros (or Rutland) Chapel in St. George's Chapel.
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 Background on the Palatinate
Starting with Louis I in 1214, the rulers of the Palatinate were from the Bavarian dynasty and eventually achieved the right to participate in the election of the Emperor.
The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 restored the Rhenish, or Lower, Palatinate to Frederick's son, Charles Louis.
The War of the Grand Alliance involved Louis XIV of France, which was claiming part of the Palatinate, pitted against the League of Augsburg, a coalition of European princes.
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Benjamin Edwards IV is joining the board of directors at A.G. Edwards, the brokerage house founded by his family.
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 Hesse and by Rhine (Darmstadt) Royal Family
See 32.18 - Ludwig was the son of Landgrave Ludwig X of Hesse-Darmstadt (1753-1830) who assumed the title of Grand Duke in 1806 and by the Congress of Vienna was further recognised as the Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (as Ludwig I).
Friedrich Wilhelm "Frittie" of Hesse and by Rhine
See 5.211- Prince Louis was created 1 st Marquess of Milford Haven and the family name changed to Mountbatten in 1917.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter
Engaged in a plot to surprise Windsor Castle with 500 horse, seize Henry IV, and proclaim King Richard.
Convicted of treason on the accusation of his brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester,afterwards Richard III, he is said to have been drowned in a butt of Malmsey.
582 (inv 1771) Adolf Friedrich IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1738-94).
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