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Leopoldo Víctor Federico de Hesse-Homburg (10 de febrero de 1787-2 de mayo de 1813) fue un príncipe de Hesse-Homburg. Vida Monumento a Leopoldo en Bad Homburg. El monumento a Hesse-Homburg en Großgörschen.
Leopold Victor Friedrich of Hesse-Homburg (10 February 1787 – 2 May 1813) was a prince of Hesse-Homburg . Life[edit] Monument to him in Bad Homburg.
Leopoldo nació en Dessau el 1 de octubre de 1794 como el hijo mayor de Federico, príncipe hereditario de Anhalt-Dessau, por su esposa Landgravine Amalie de Hesse-Homburg, hija de Federico V, Landgrave de Hesse-Homburg. Tras la muerte prematura de su padre en 1814, se convirtió en heredero del ducado de Anhalt-Dessau.
El landgraviato de Hesse-Homburg fue un pequeño Estado del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico entre 1768 y 1806, y de 1815 a 1866 un Estado monárquico independiente dentro de la Confederación Germánica, en lo que hoy es Alemania. Su capital fue la ciudad de Bad Homburg .
- Early Life
- First Marriage
- Military Career
- Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
- Second Marriage
- Death
- Honours
Louis was born at the Prinz-Karl-Palais in Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine in the German Confederation, the first son and child of Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine (23 April 1809 – 20 March 1877) and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (18 June 1815 – 21 March 1885), granddaughter of King Frederick William II of Prussi...
On 1 July 1862, Louis married Princess Alice, a daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. On the day of the wedding, the Queen issued a royal warrant granting her new son-in-law the style of Royal Highness in the United Kingdom. The Queen also subsequently made Prince Louis a knight of the Order of the...
During the Austro-Prussian Warof 1866, Louis commanded the Hessian cavalry in support of the Austrian side. The Austrians were defeated in the war, and the Hessian grand duchy was in jeopardy of being awarded as the spoils of war to victorious Prussia, which annexed some of Austria's other allies (Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, Nassau). Hesse-Darmstadt app...
In March 1877, Louis became heir presumptiveto the Hessian throne when his father died and, less than three months later, found himself reigning grand duke upon the demise of his uncle, Louis III. A year and a half later, however, Grand Duke Louis was stricken with diphtheria along with most of his immediate family. He recovered; but his four-year-...
Grand Duchess Alice having died in 1878, Louis IV contracted a morganatic marriage on 30 April 1884 in Darmstadt (on the eve of the wedding of his eldest daughter, for which Queen Victoria and other relatives of his first wife were gathered in the Hessian capital) with Countess Alexandrine von Hutten-Czapska (3 September 1854 – 8 May 1941), daughte...
Grand Duke Ludwig IV died of a heart attack in the New Palace in Darmstadt on 13 March 1892. He was succeeded by his son, Ernest Louis.
German orders and decorationsForeign orders and decorationsLeopoldo IV Federico, Duque de Anhalt (1 de octubre de 1794 - 22 de mayo de 1871) fue un príncipe alemán de la Casa de Ascania . Desde 1817 hasta 1853 fue el gobernante del ducado de Anhalt-Dessau y desde 1847 hasta 1853 fue también gobernante del ducado de Anhalt-Köthen.
Hesse-Homburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and a sovereign member of the German Confederation. It was formed into a separate landgraviate in 1622 by the landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt; it was to be ruled by his son, although it did not become independent of Hesse-Darmstadt until 1668.
