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Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse

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and suffered a fatal fall from a palace window before his third birthday in 1873, combined with the wearying war relief duties Alice had undertaken in 1870, evoked a crisis of spiritual faith for the princess in which her husband does not appear to have shared.
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along with most of his immediate family. He recovered; but his four-year-old daughter Marie succumbed, along with his wife of 16 years. From then on, he reigned and raised his five surviving children alone. His youngest surviving daughter, Alix, married
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in Darmstadt. But the couple, facing objections from the Grand Duke's in-laws, separated within a week and the marriage was annulled within three months. As a compensation, she received the title
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on 30 April 1884 in Darmstadt (on the eve of the wedding of his eldest daughter, for which Queen Victoria and other relatives of his first wife were gathered in the Hessian capital) with
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before betrothal and wed willingly, even after the death of the Prince Consort left Queen Victoria in a protracted state of grief that cast a pall over the
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to the Hessian throne when his father died and, less than three months later, found himself reigning grand duke upon the demise of his uncle, Louis III.
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Grand Duke Ludwig IV died of a heart attack in the New Palace in Darmstadt on 13 March 1892. He was succeeded by his son, Ernest Louis.
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The Austrians were defeated in the war, and the Hessian grand duchy was in jeopardy of being awarded as the spoils of war to victorious
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on 31 May 1884 and a financial compensation. Alexandrine later married for the third time to Basil von Bacheracht.
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Eilers, Marlene. Queen Victoria's Descendants. Rosvall Royal Books, Falkoping, Sweden, 1997. pp. 49-50. 141, 175.
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Willis, Daniel A., ‘’The Descendants of King George I of Great Britain’’, Clearfield Company, 2002, p. 717.
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Suffered from haemophilia and died from internal bleeding after a fall from a window at age two and a half.
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Militaire Willems-Orde: Hessen-Darmstadt, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig IV. Karl Grossherzog von
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Succeeded as Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, 13 March 1892, abdicated 9 November 1918;
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in the United Kingdom. The Queen also subsequently made Prince Louis a knight of the
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by fighting on the same side as his brother-in-law and future emperor, Crown Prince
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Burials at the Mausoleum for the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, Rosenhöhe (Darmstadt)
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of 1866, Louis commanded the Hessian cavalry in support of the Austrian side.
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Members of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
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A year and a half later, however, Grand Duke Louis was stricken with
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The Equestrian statue of Ludwig IV on the Friedensplatz in Darmstadt
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from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892. Through his marriage to
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Grand Duchess Alice having died in 1878, Louis IV contracted a
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Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
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Portraits of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
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Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
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Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
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Kurfürstlich Hessisches Hof- und Staatshandbuch: 1859
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Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1870
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Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg
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Index

Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
Louis III
Ernest Louis
Prinz-Carl-Palais
Darmstadt
Grand Duchy of Hesse
German Confederation
New Palace
Darmstadt
Grand Duchy of Hesse
German Empire
Darmstadt
Grand Duchy of Hesse
German Empire
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Countess Alexandrine von Hutten-Czapska
Issue
Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia
Irene, Princess Henry of Prussia
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
Prince Friedrich
Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia
Princess Marie
German
House
Hesse-Darmstadt
Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine

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