Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse


Moritz Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen was the son of Prince Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, and the head of the House of Brabant and the German House of Hesse.

Life

Landgrave Moritz was born at Racconigi Castle, in Italy. During the Second World War, Moritz's mother, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, was arrested by the Nazis for alleged subversive activities and died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944.
Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine, the last head of the Hesse-Darmstadt line, died in 1968, at which time Moritz's father succeeded him as head of the entire house. He had been the head of the House of Hesse since the death of his father Philip on 25 October 1980.
Moritz was a world-famous art collector. He was also the proprietor of the Kronberg Palace Hotel up until his death.
He died of lung illness in a hospital in Frankfurt, Germany.

Marriage and children

Moritz married Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. Their marriage took place in the summer of 1964 in Giessen and ended in divorce in 1974. They had four children:

Patrilineal descent

  1. Gilbert I, Count of the Maasgau, d. 842
  2. Gilbert II, Count of the Maasgau, 825-875
  3. Reginar, Duke of Lorraine, 850-915
  4. Reginar II, Count of Hainaut, 890-932
  5. Reginar III, Count of Hainaut, 920-973
  6. Lambert I, Count of Leuven, 950-1015
  7. Lambert II, Count of Leuven, d. 1054
  8. Henry II, Count of Leuven, 1020-1078
  9. Godfrey I, Count of Leuven, 1060-1139
  10. Godfrey II, Count of Leuven, 1110-1142
  11. Godfrey III, Count of Leuven, 1140-1190
  12. Henry I, Duke of Brabant, 1165-1235
  13. Henry II, Duke of Brabant, 1207-1248
  14. Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse, 1244-1308
  15. Otto I, Landgrave of Hesse, 1272-1328
  16. Louis the Junker of Hesse, 1305-1345
  17. Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse, 1341-1413
  18. Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse, 1402-1458
  19. Louis II, Landgrave of Hesse, 1438-1471
  20. William II, Landgrave of Hesse, 1469-1509
  21. Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, 1504-1567
  22. William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1532-1592
  23. Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1572-1632
  24. William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1602-1637
  25. William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1629-1663
  26. Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1654-1730
  27. William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1682-1760
  28. Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1720-1785
  29. Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, 1747-1837
  30. Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, 1787-1867
  31. Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel, 1820-1884
  32. Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, 1868-1940
  33. Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, 1896-1980
  34. Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, 1926-2013