Landgravine Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt 10= 10. [1] 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. 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 Alexandrina Hutten-Czapska (3 September 1854 – 8 May 1941), the former wife of Aleksander Kolemin, the Russian chargé d'affaires in Darmstadt. [11] When Lingner died of tongue cancer, he bequeathed Tarasp Castle in Switzerland to Ernest Louis. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse 5= 5. Rosvall Royal Books, Falkoping, Sweden, 1997. pp. To install click the Add extension button. The idea that the Grand Duke would enter into such an inappropriate, and unequal, marriage was scandalous at the time. Sitter in 49 portraits. He slept quite openly with them all. Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine 3= 3. All content copyright Unofficial Royalty 2018. Prince William of Prussia 7= 7. Louis IV (Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Karl) (12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892), was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 13 June 1877 until his death. And Queen Victoria was in an uproar! Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! [1] As a compensation, she received the title Countess von Romrod on 31 May 1884. On 19 April 1894, at Schloss Ehrenburg, Ernest Louis married his maternal first cousin, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ("Ducky"), the daughter of his mother's brother, Prince Alfred. 49-50. [14], In October 1937, Ernest Louis died after a long illness at Schloß Wolfsgarten, near Darmstadt. On 1 July 1862, Louis married Princess Alice, the third child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was the former wife of Aleksander von Kolemin, the Russian chargé d'affaires in Darmstadt. Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, 31. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden 6= 6. Why can't we all die together? Through his own and his children's marriages he was connected to the British Royal Family, to the Imperial House of Russia and other Royal Houses of Europe. That's it. [2] His remains are buried at Rosenhöhe, the mausoleum for the Grand Ducal House outside of Darmstadt. 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 Prussia. At the wedding, Ernest's youngest surviving sister, Alix, met and became engaged to marry Tsarevich Nicholas of Russia, and the excitement of that imminent match threw the nuptial celebrations into the shade. His second wife received the title Countess von Romrod. 11 Saturday Jul 2020. "When I die, you must die too, and all the others. The young couple had loud arguments which sometimes turned physical. This marriage proved harmonious and happy. His nickname was "Ernie". 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 Prussia. But from an early age, Ludwig was destined for a military career. He would go on to lead the Hessian forces in both the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. This style was only in effect in the United Kingdom and not in Hesse where Prince Ludwig was only styled as His Grand Ducal Highness. He was buried, alongside his wife and their two children who died in childhood, in the Neues Mausoleum in Rosenhöhe Park in Darmstadt. Succeeded as Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, 13 March 1892  abdicated 9 November 1918; m. (1), April 9, 1894 his first cousin HRH Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (November 25, 1876-March 2, 1936); 1 son (stillborn) and 1 daughter, div. (aged 54 years), 16. A year and a half later, however, Grand Duke Louis was stricken with diphtheria along with most of his immediate family, from which he recovered but to which his four-year-old daughter Marie succumbed, along with his wife of 16 years. Louis IV (Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Karl) (12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892), was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 13 June 1877 until his death. Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (=16, 26, 30), 11. On 1 July 1862, the day of his wedding, Queen Victoria issued Letters Patent granting her new son-in-law the style of His Royal Highness. Ludwig’s uncle, Grand Duke Ludwig III, was childless, so it was expected that the grand ducal throne would pass to Ludwig’s father. Ludwig’s uncle, Grand Duke Ludwig III, was childless, so it was expected that the grand ducal throne would pass to Ludwig’s father. Princess Elizabeth of Prussia 4= 4. Ernest Louis, grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1892 until his abdication in 1918, at the end of World War I. 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 Prussia. From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core, Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by the Rhine, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna of Russia, Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of All the Russias, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Landgrave George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Maria Luise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg, Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden, Landgravine Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Duchess Louise Amalie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess Eleonore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Louis_IV,_Grand_Duke_of_Hesse&oldid=258151, Articles to be expanded from September 2012, Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias, Burials at the Mausoleum for the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, Rosenhöhe (Darmstadt), Members of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Knights Commander of the Military William Order, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, About Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (13 March 1892 – 9 November 1918); married. On the day of the wedding, the Queen issued Letters Patent granting her new son-in-law the style of Royal Highness. His father and all the children, except Elisabeth, who was visiting her paternal grandmother, fell ill. Princess Alice cared for her sick husband and children, but on 16 November, the youngest of them, Princess Marie, died. This style was only in effect in Great Britain, not the German confederation where Prince Ludwig was only a Grand Ducal Highness. One of seven siblings, two of whom died in childhood, Ernest grew up with his four surviving sisters in Darmstadt.

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