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Landgraviate and Hesse
The Empire also contained several regional powers, such as the Duchy of Bavaria, the Electorate of Saxony, the Margraviate of Brandenburg, the Electorate of the Palatinate, Landgraviate of Hesse, the Archbishopric of Trier and the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg ( containing from 500, 000 to one million inhabitants ).
In the War of the Thuringian Succession ( 1247 – 64 ), Hesse gained its independence and became a Landgraviate within the Holy Roman Empire.
The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel () was a state in the Holy Roman Empire under Imperial immediacy that came into existence when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.
On his father's death in 1567 he received one half of the Landgraviate of Hesse, with Kassel as his capital ; and this formed the Landgraviate.
Following the reorganization of the German states during the German mediatisation of 1803, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel was raised to the Electorate of Hesse and Landgrave William IX was elevated to Imperial Elector, taking the title William I, Elector of Hesse.
Hesse-Nassau was created as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the previously independent Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), the Duchy of Nassau, the Free City of Frankfurt, areas gained from the Kingdom of Bavaria, and areas gained from the Grand Duchy of Hesse ( Hesse-Darmstadt ; including part of the former Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg ).
* Landgraviate of Hesse
When the Katzenelnbogens died out in 1479, the Landgraviate of Hesse became a neighbour to the north.
With the introduction of the Reformation in the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1526 and in the County of Erbach in 1544, Bensheim got not only a territorial border with these neighbours, but also a denominational one.
When the daughter of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Sophie of Brabant, was able to secure the Western parts of Thuringia for her son Henry the Child in 1265, therefore founding the state of Landgraviate of Hesse, the Marburg area became its core territory.
In 1433, the town passed back to the Landgraviate of Hesse.
Then it became Hessian, first part of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, and since 1948 it has been part of the Bundesland of Hesse.
In 1803, the village, as part of the Amtsvogtei of Dieburg, ended up with the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the later Grand Duchy of Hesse.
On his father's death in 1567 he received one half of Hesse, with Cassel as his capital ; and this formed the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel.
In 1479 the County Katzenelnbogen, including Auerbach Castle, became the possession of the Landgraviate of Hesse.
In 1820 the North tower of the castle collapsed, after which the Landgraviate of Hesse decided to secure and partially rebuild the ruins.
To secure their acquisation the Counts of Henneberg allied with the Landgraviate of Hesse, including the conclusion of an inheritance treaty.
The castles were built for their strategic location in the Middle Ages between the Archbishopric of Mainz and the Landgraviate of Thuringia, or Hesse.
Landgraviate and –
* August 28 – Third Treaty of Basel between the French First Republic and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel.
The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel expanded in 1604 when Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, inherited the Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg from his childless uncle, Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg ( 1537 – 1604 ).
* the Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg ( 1627 – 1834 )
* the Landgraviate of Hesse-Wanfried -( Rheinfels ) ( 1649 – 1755 )
*** Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt ( 1567 – 1806 )
**** Landgraviate of Hesse-Butzbach ( 1609 – 43 )
**** Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg ( 1622 – 1866 )
**** Landgraviate of Hesse-Braubach ( 1625 – 51 )
**** Landgraviate of Hesse-Itter ( 1661 – 76 )
*** Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ) ( 1567 – 1806 )
**** Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg ( 1627 – 1834 )
**** Landgraviate of Hesse-Eschwege ( 1627 – 1755 )
** Landgraviate of Hesse-Rheinfels ( 1567 – 83 )
** Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg ( 1485 – 1500 and 1567 – 1604 / 50 )
Landgraviate and 1567
The Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg was a German landgraviate, and independent principality, within the Holy Roman Empire, that existed between 1485 and 1500, and between 1567 and 1604 / 1650.
Hesse and 1264
* 1264 – The state of Hesse gains its independence from Thuringia and becomes a free state of the Holy Roman Empire.
** Hesse ( 1264 – 1567 )
# Henry ( 1244 – 1308, created Landgrave of Hesse in 1264.
Sophia, supported by the Hessian nobility, succeeded in retaining Hesse against her cousin, who in 1264 accepted the division of the Ludowingian inheritance: Henry of Meissen received Thuringia, while Sophia's son Heinrich would inherit Hesse.
Beginning in 1264, as a result of the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession, Eschwege belonged, under Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse, to Hesse.
Hesse and –
* 1952 – Karen Hesse, American author
* Alexandra Feodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) ( 1872 – 1918 ), wife of Nicholas II of Russia
* 1308 – Henry I of Hesse ( b. 1244 )
Erasmus Alberus ( c. 1500 – 1553 ), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg, Hesse ) about the year 1500.
* 1704 4 August – The Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered the town to Prince George of Hesse, who took it in the name of Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.
# Johann ( b. Dresden, 24 August 1498 – d. Dresden, 11 January 1537 ), Hereditary Duke of Saxony ; married on 20 May 1516 to Elizabeth of Hesse.
# Christine ( b. Dresden, 25 December 1505 – d. Kassel, 15 April 1549 ), married on 11 December 1523 to Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.
* 1244 – Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse ( d. 1308 )
* 1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
* 1866 – Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine ( d. 1953 )
* 1868 – Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine ( d. 1937 )
* 1876 – Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse ( d. 1936 )
* 1504 – Philipp I of Hesse ( d. 1567 )
In 1788, while part of the Province of Quebec ( 1763 – 1791 ), southern Ontario was divided into four districts: Hesse, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Nassau.
* 1870 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine ( d. 1873 )
* 1937 – Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine ( b. 1868 )
* 1438 – Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse ( d. 1471 )
* 1837 – Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse ( d. 1892 )
* Eva Hesse –
* William I, Elector of Hesse ( 1743 – 1821 )
* William I, Landgrave of Hesse ( 1466 – 1515 )
* William II, Landgrave of Hesse ( 1469 – 1509 )
* Hermann Hesse – novelist ( Siddhartha )
* July 24 – Governor General Lord Dorchester, by proclamation issued from the Chateau St. Louis in Quebec City, divides the British Province of Quebec into five Districts, namely: Gaspé, Nassau, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Hesse.
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