THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1264–1567

Landgraviate of Hesse

Hesse became a landgraviate of its own in 1264 under Henry the Child, grandson of St Elisabeth: Upper Hesse around Marburg and Giessen and Lower Hesse around Kassel. It gained the County of Katzenelnbogen, on the Rhine and around Darmstadt, in 1479.

Philip the Magnanimous, leader of the Protestant princes, divided it among his four sons at his death in 1567 (Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Marburg, Hesse-Rheinfels).

See Landgraviate of Hesse on the map in 1264

On the map
1264–1567
Capital
Marburg, later Kassel

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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