HESSE-DARMSTADT. (Germ. Gross Herzogthum Hessen.) Louis II., reigning Grand Duke, b. Dec. 26. 1777, succeeded his father, Louis I., April 6. 1830; m. June 19. 1804, Wilhelmina-Louisa, daughter of the late Crown Prince of Baden, d. 1836. Issue, 1. The Hereditary Grand Duke Louis, b. June 9. 1806, m. Dec. 26. 1833, Matilda, daughter of Louis, King of Bavaria. 2. Charles, b. April 23. 1809, m. 22 Oct. 1836, Mary-Elizabeth, daughter of Prince William, brother of the King of Prussia. 3. Alexander, b. 1823. Brothers and sisters of the Grand Duke, 1. Prince George, b. 1780, m., 1804, Caroline, Princess of Nidda. 2. Prince Frederick, b. 1788. 3. Princess Emile, b. 1790. BADEN. The princes of Baden had the title of Margraves down to 1801; in 1803 the dignity of Elector was conferred on them, and in 1806 they were rewarded by Napoleon, for their adhesion to the confederacy of the Rhine, with the rank of Grand Duke. The Grand Duke Charles-Frederick, m., 1806, Stephanie, adopted daughter of Napoleon; dying, 1818, without male issue, was succeeded by his uncle Margrave Louis. At his death without children, in 1830, he was succeeded by his half-brother, son of Charles-Frederick by his second wife, a Countess of Hochberg, to whom he was united by a left-handed, but not morganatic, marriage, an union which did not exclude the children from the succession. The eldest son by this marriage is, LEOPOLD, reigning Grand Duke, b. Aug. 29. 1790, m. July 25. 1819, Sophie, daughter of Gustavus IV., deposed King of Sweden. Issue, 1. Alexandrina, b. 1820. 2. Hereditary Grand Duke Louis, b. Aug. 15. 1824. 3. Frederick, b. 1826. Brothers and sister of the Grand Duke. 1. Margrave William, b. 1792. 3. Margrave Maximilian. Dowager Grand Duchess Stephanie, b. Aug. 28. 1789; widow of the Grand Duke Charles-Frederick; daughters, 1. Louisa, wife of Prince GustavusVasa of Holstein-Gottorp. 2. Josephine, wife of the Hereditary Prince Charles of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. 3. Mary. |