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The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt ( German: Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a younger branch of the House of Hesse. It was formed in 1567 following the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse among the four sons of Landgrave Philip I . The residence of the landgraves was in Darmstadt, hence the name.
Philip was the son of Landgrave William II of Hesse and his second wife Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. His father died when Philip was five years old, and in 1514 his mother, after a series of struggles with the Estates of Hesse , succeeded in becoming regent on his behalf.
William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. William V ( German: Wilhelm) (13 February 1602 – 21 September 1637), a member of the House of Hesse, was Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1627 to 1637. Having come to rule in unfavorable circumstances and in the midst of the Thirty Years' War, he continued to suffer losses of territory and wealth.
Guillermo II, Landgrave de Hesse o Guillermo Medio (para diferenciarlo de su hermano Guillermo I, el viejo y de su primo Guillermo III, el joven ), nació el 29 de abril de 1469 y murió el 11 de julio de 1509, fue el Landgrave de Hesse desde 1493 hasta su muerte, en 1509. Sus padres fueron Luis II, landgrave de Hesse (1438-1471) y Matilda ...
William I of Hesse ( German: Wilhelm) (4 July 1466 – 8 February 1515) was the Landgrave of Hesse ( Lower Hesse) from 1471 to 1493. His parents were Louis the Frank (1438–1471) and Mechthild, daughter of Count Louis I of Württemberg. On 17 February 1488 in Münden, he married Anna of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel c. 1460 - Worms 16 May 1520 ...
William of Hesse may refer to: William I, Landgrave of Hesse (1466–1515), German nobility. William II, Landgrave of Hesse (1469–1509), German nobility. William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532-1592), German nobility. William I, Elector of Hesse (1743-1821), German nobility. Prince William of Hesse, or Landgrave William of Hesse-Kassel ...
William was nicknamed the Elder to distinguish him from his nephew, William of Hesse-Wanfried. Biography. After his father's death in 1693, William ruled one half of the Rotenburg Quarter, the quarter of Hesse-Kassel which Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel had distributed as fiefs among the sons of his second wife, Juliane.
