Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse
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| Louis III | |
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| Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine | |
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| Reign | 1848 – 13 June 1877 |
| Predecessor | Louis II |
| Successor | Louis IV |
| Born | 9 June 1806 Darmstadt, Hesse |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Seeheim, Hesse |
| Burial | Rosenhohe, Darmstadt |
| Spouse | Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria Baroness Magdalen of Hochstadten (morganatic) |
| House | House of Hesse-Darmstadt |
| Father | Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse |
| Mother | Wilhelmine of Baden |
Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Großherzog Ludwig III von Hessen und bei Rhein; 9 June 1806, Darmstadt – 13 June 1877, Seeheim) was Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1848 until his death in 1877.
Biography
He was the son of Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse and his consort Wilhelmine of Baden. He succeeded as Grand Duke in 1848 upon the abdication of his father during the March Revolution in the German states.
During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Louis sent word more than once to Queen Victoria, mother-in-law of his nephew and successor Louis, appealing to her to reason on his behalf with the King of Prussia, "in the same sense I had already written before, but it would be utterly useless."[1]
He was succeeded by his nephew, Louis IV, on 13 June 1877, as his brother Charles (Louis' father) had already died three months previously, in March.
Marriages
In Munich, on 26 December 1833, he married Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, eldest daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria. The marriage produced no children and the Grand Duke remarried, morganatically, in 1868 to Magdalene Appel who was created Baroness of Hochstädten.
Ancestry
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Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse
Born: 9 June 1806 Died: 13 June 1877 |
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| Preceded by | Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine 1848–1877 |
Succeeded by Louis IV |
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