House of Hesse

The house of Hesse is a family resulting from the Maison of the Brabant (originating in Leuwen and whose genealogy goes back to Lambert Ier 1015, count de Louvain). The members of this family reigned on:

• the Duchy of Hesse (1275-1308, 1311-1458, 1500-1567),
• the Hesse-Cassel or Electorate of Hesse (1308-1311, 1458-1500, 1567-1866),
• the Hesse-Darmstadt (1567-1806),
• the Hesse-Rotenburg (1627-1812),
• the Hesse-Wanfried (1649-1755)
• the Hesse-Cassel-Rumpenheim (1803-1918),
• the Hesse-Homburg (1622 - 1866)
• the Hesse-Philippsthal (1663 - 1868)
• the Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1721 -)
• the Grand Duchy of Hesse (of 1806 to 1918),

The house of Hesse reigned also temporarily on the Sweden (of 1720 to 1751) and on the Bulgaria (of 1879 to 1886). A member of this family was elected king of Finland in 1918 but did not reign.

The current chief of the house of Hesse is the langrave Maurice de Hesse (born 1926).

The Maison of Battenberg is a branch of the house of Hesse, resulting from the marriage morganatic of the prince Alexandre de Hesse, wire of Louis II, large-duke of Hesse with the countess Julia von Hauke, who was titrated countess of Battenberg , n the other hand of the exclusion of its decendance of the line of succession of the throne of Hesse.

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Among the famous members of this family one finds:

• the prince Alexandre Ier of Bulgaria (1857 - 1893), nephew of the tsar Alexandre II of Russia, which was selected in 1879 like sovereign of the Bulgarian ones, but which however abdicated in 1886.

• the princess Victoire Eugenie de Battenberg (1887-1969), who married the constitutional king Alphonse XIII of Spain, which became in 1936 elder Capétiens.

• the princess Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt wife of the tsarévitch Paul, future tsar Paul Ier of Russia,

• the princess Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1824-1880) wife of the tsar Alexandre II,

• the princess Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt (1872-1918), girl of the large-duke Louis IV, which became Alexandra Féodorovna , the last empress of all the Russia S, by marrying the emperor Nicolas II Alexandrovitch.

• the princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt, sister of the preceding wife of the large-duke Serge of Russia carried out in all an edifying life, died martyrdom in 1918 and was canonized by the Russian orthodoxe Church in 2000.

• the last large-duke Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt very popular, assassinated with all its family by the Nazis in 1937…

Foot-note : by a strange fact, all the Romanov (tsars or large-duke) having married a princess of Hesse-Darmstadt died assassinated…

See too

• House of Battenberg
• List of the sovereigns of Hesse
• List of the sovereigns of Hesse-Cassel

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