Electoral and Grand Ducal House of Hesse (Brabant)

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Mafalda von Hessen and daughter Tatiana with Rolf Sachs and his children attended the "Jedermann" performance during the Salzburg Festival 2020 at Salzburg State Theatre on August 6:


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Mafalda von Hessen with Rolf Sachs attended the „Damien Hirst Archaeology now“ exhibition, sponsored by Prada at Galleria Borghese in Rome on June 7:


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Mafalda von Hessen and partner Rolf Sachs attended the opening of the Luma Foundation in Arles, France on June 26:


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Mafalda von Hessen (with Isabella Borromeo) attended the screening of the Docufilm "Salvatore - Il calzolaio dei sogni" directed by Luca Guadagnino in Rome yesterday, October 6:


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[CyrilVladisla]

Originally Posted by juliamontague

The Hesse-Darmstadt line died out.
In 1937 Grandduke Georg Donatus (son of Ernst Ludwig) flew to England to attend the wedding of his younger brother Ludwig and Margaret Campbell. The plane crashed and Georg Donatus, his wife Cecilie and their two sons Alexander and Ludwig died. Their daughter Johanna had stayed at home and she was adopted by her uncle Ludwig, the new Grandduke. Ludwig and Margaret didn't have any children of their own and Johanna died from meningitis a little more than a year after her family had died. As Ludwig had no heir he adopted Prince Moritz of Hesse-Kassel.

On November 20, 1908 ~ Birth of Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine, Head of the House of Hesse

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Heinrich Donatus, Prince of Hesse, attended the farewell ceremony of Volker Bouffier, outgoing Minister President of Hesse at Biebrich Palace, Wiesbaden, yesterday, May 30:


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[Daz_Voz]

What's the deal with the name of this house? Specifically ... why by Rhine rather than of?

[Addapalla]

Originally Posted by Daz_Voz

What's the deal with the name of this house? Specifically ... why by Rhine rather than of?

Because the Grand Duchy of Hesse, unlike Electoral Hesse, included lands that were actually “by the Rhine,” running along both of its banks. The family did not pretend to be princes OF the Rhine, as it had always been a commercial waterway shared by many states.

[Curryong]

Until a war in the 1860s this Grand Duchy contained land that was actually near the Rhine.

From Wiki

The portion of the Grand Duchy on the right bank of the Rhine stretched most of the way from the south of the modern state of Hesse to Frankenberg. The portion on the left bank was located in the modern state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to the great floodplains of the Rhine (Hessian Ried), Main, and Wetterau, the Grand Duchy also contained upland regions like the Vogelsberg, the Hessian Hinterland, and the Odenwald. In the south, the exclaves of the Wimpfen district [de] extended into the Grand Duchy of Baden.

[Daz_Voz]

Thank you, Curryong and Addapalla. Makes sense.

[CyrilVladisla]

Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse 1509-1567
http://www.maryevans.com/history/10444242