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Gr Duke LUDWIG II of Hesse and the Rhine (1830-48), *Darmstadt 26.12.1777, +Darmstadt 16.6.1848; m.Karlsruhe 19.6.1804 Wilhelmine Pss of Baden (*Karlsruhe 10.9.1788, +Rosenhöhe bei Darmstadt 27.1.1836); They had issue:

A1. Gr Duke LUDWIG III of Hesse and the Rhine (1848-77), *Darmstadt 9.6.1806, +Seeheim 13.6.1877; 1m: Munich 26.12.1833 Mathilde Pss of Bavaria (*Augsburg 30.8.1813, +Darmstadt 25.5.1862); 2m: (morganatically) Darmstadt 20.6.1868 Magdalene Appel, cr Freifrau von Hochstädten 9.6.1868 (*Darmstadt 8.3.1846, +Wiesbaden 19.12.1917)
A2. Pr KARL Wilhelm Ludwig, *Darmstadt 23.4.1809, +Darmstadt 20.3.1877; m.Berlin 22.10.1836 Pss Elisabeth of Prussia (*Berlin 18.6.1815, +Bessungen 21.3.1885)
- B1. Gr Duke Friedrich Wilhelm LUDWIG IV Karl of Hesse and the Rhine (1877-92), *Bessungen 12.9.1837, +Darmstadt 13.3.1892; 1m: Osborne House, Isle of Wight 1.7.1862 Pss Alice of Great Britain and Ireland, etc. (*Buckingham Palace 25.4.1843, +Darmstadt 14.12.1878); 2m: Darmstadt 30.4.1884 (annulled 1884) Alexandrina Hutten-Czapska, cr Gfn von Romrod (*Warsaw 3.9.1854, +Vevey 8.5.1941)
  - C1.
    Gr Duke ERNST LUDWIG Karl Albrecht Wilhelm of Hesse and the Rhine (1892-1918), lost his throne 9.11.1918, *Darmstadt 25.11.1868, +Schloß Wolfsgarten 9.10.1937; 1m: Coburg 19.4.1894 (div 1901) Pss Victoria Melita of Great Britain, Ireland and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, etc. (*Malta 25.11.1876, +Amorbach 2.3.1936); 2m: Darmstadt 2.2.1905 Pss Eleonore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (*Lich 17.9.1871, +k.in air crash at Steene, nr Ostende 16.11.1937)
    - D1. GEORG DONATUS Wilhelm Nikolaus Eduard Heinrich Karl, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine, *Darmstadt 8.11.1906, +k.in air crash at Steene, nr Ostende 16.11.1937; m.Darmstadt (civ) 23.1.1931 (rel) 2.2.1931 Pss Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (*Tatoi 22.6.1911, +k.in air crash at Steene, nr Ostende 16.11.1937)
      E1. Pr LUDWIG Ernst Andreas, *Darmstadt 25.10.1931, +k.in air crash at Steene, nr Ostende 16.11.1937
      E2. Pr ALEXANDER Georg Karl Heinrich, *Darmstadt 14.4.1933, +k.in air crash at Steene, nr Ostende 16.11.1937
      E3. Pss JOHANNA Marina Eleonore, *Schloß Wolfsgarten 20.9.1936, +Darmstadt 14.6.1939
    - D2. Gr Duke LUDWIG Hermann Alexander Chlodwig, *Darmstadt 20.11.1908, +Frankfurt 30.5.1968; m.London 17.11.1937 Hon. Margaret Campbell Geddes (*Dublin 18.3.1913, +Schloß Wolfsgarten 26.1.1997)
    - D3. Pss ELISABETH Marie Alice Victoria, *Darmstadt 11.3.1895, +Skierniewice 6.11.1903
  - C2. Pr FRIEDRICH WILHELM August Victor Leopold Ludwig, *Darmstadt 7.10.1870, +fall from a window, Darmstadt 29.5.1873
  - C3. Pss VICTORIA ALBERTA Elisabeth Mathilde Marie, *Windsor Castle 5.4.1863, +Kensington Palace 24.9.1950; m.Darmstadt 30.4.1884 Pr Louis von Battenberg, Marquess of Milford Haven (*24.5.1854 +11.9.1921)
  - C4. Pss ELISABETH Alexandra Louise Alice, *Bessungen 1.11.1864, +executed at Alapaievsk 17.7.1918; m.St.Petersburg 15.6.1884 Grand Duke Sergei of Russia (*11.5.1857 +17.2.1905)
  - C5. Pss IRENE Luise Marie Anna, *Darmstadt 11.7.1866, +Schloß Hemmelmark 11.11.1953; m.Charlottenburg 24.5.1888 Heinrich Pr of Prussia (*Neues Palais 14.8.1862, +Schloß Hemmelmark 20.4.1929)
  - C6. Pss Victoria ALIX Helena Louise Beatrice, took the name Alexandra Feodorovna on her Orthodox baptism, *Darmstadt 6.6.1872, +executed at Ekaterinburg 17.7.1918; m.St.Petersburg 26.11.1894 Emperor Nikolai II of Russia (*18.5.1868 +17.7.1918)
  - C7. Pss MARIE Victoria Feodore Leopoldine, *Darmstadt 24.5.1874, +Darmstadt 16.11.1878
- B2. Pr HEINRICH Ludwig Wilhelm Adalbert Waldemar Alexander, *Bessungen 28.11.1838, +Munich 16.9.1900; 1m: (morganatically) Darmstadt 28.2.1878 Caroline Willich gen. von Pöllnitz, cr Freifrau von Nidda 28.2.1878 (*Butzbach 5.11.1848, +Trier 6.1.1879); 2m: (morganatically) Darmstadt 20.9.1892 Emilie Hrzic de Topuska, cr Freifrau von Dornberg 14.9.1895 (*Karlstadt 6.5.1868, +Munich 23.2.1961)
  - C1. KARL Ludwig Wilhelm Georg Elimar, cr Gf von Nidda 28.11.1883, *Trier 4.1.1879, +Ahrweiler 11.6.1920
  - C2. Carl Ludwig Wilhelm ELIMAR Simeon Belimir Alexander, Frhr von Dornberg, *Munich 3.8.1893, +k.a.Riezlern, Allgäu 1.5.1917
- B3. Pr WILHELM Ludwig Friedrich Georg Emil Philipp Gustav Ferdinand, *Bessungen 16.11.1845, +Schloß Rosenhöhe bei Darmstadt 24.5.1900; m.(morganatically) Lorry, nr Metz 24.2.1884 Josephine Bender, cr Frau von Lichtenberg 15.4.1884 (*Darmstadt 11.8.1857, +Darmstadt 24.2.1942)
  - C1. GOTTFRIED Ludwig Joseph Wilhelm von Lichtenberg, *Darmstadt 19.11.1877, +k.a.nr Esternay 6.9.1914; m.Darmstadt 20.7.1901 Elisabeth Müller (*Darmstadt 9.2.1880, +Berlin 5.2.1961)
    - D1. GOTTFRIED Wilhelm Joseph Ludwig von Lichtenberg, *Mainz 18.10.1902, +Frankfurt 17.1.1958; m.Berlin 4.5.1942 Sylvia Traute Knispel (*Königsberg 12.3.1921)
      - E1. Alexandra von Lichtenberg, *Tegernsee 29.4.1946; m.Frankfurt 1.7.1971 Rainer de Neufville
- B4. Pss Maria ANNA Wilhelmine Elisabeth Mathilde, *Darmstadt 25.5.1843, +Schwerin 16.4.1865; m.Darmstadt 12.5.1864 Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (*28.2.1823 +15.4.1883)
A3. Pr ALEXANDER Ludwig Georg Friedrich Emil, *Darmstadt 15.7.1823, +Darmstadt 15.12.1888; m.(morganatically) Breslau 28.10.1851 Julie von Hauke, cr Gfn von Battenberg 5.11.1851 and Pss von Battenberg (Serene Highness) 26.12.1858 (*Warsaw 12.11.1825, +Schloß Heiligenberg 19.9.1895)
- B1. Pr Ludwig Alexander von Battenberg, renounced his German titles and assumed the surname Mountbatten 1.7.1917, cr Marquess of Milford Haven, etc. 20.6.1917, First Sea Lord of the British Navy, *Graz 24.5.1854, +London 11.9.1921; m.Darmstadt 30.4.1884 Pss Victoria Alberta of Hesse and the Rhine (*5.4.1863 +24.9.1950)
  - C1. Pr GEORGE Louis Victor Henry Serge von Battenberg, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, *Darmstadt 6.11.1892, +London 8.4.1938; m.London 15.11.1916 Css Nadejda de Torby (*28.3.1896 +22.1.1963)
    - D1. DAVID Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, *Edinburgh 12.5.1919, +London 14.4.1970; 1m: Washington 4.2.1950 (div 1954) Romaine Dahlgren Pierce (*Biltmore, North Carolina 17.7.1923, +New York 15.2.1975); 2m: London 17.11.1960 Janet Mercedes Bryce (*Hamilton, Bermuda 29.9.1937)
      - E1. [2m.] GEORGE Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven, *London 6.6.1961; 1m: London 8.3.1989 (div 1996) Sarah Georgina Walker (*London 17.11.1962); 2m: Nantucket 20.8.1997 Clare Wentworth-Stanley (Steel) (*New York 2.9.1960)
        F1. Lady Tatiana Mountbatten, *London 16.4.1990
        F2. Henry David Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Medina, *London 19.10.1991
      - E2. [2m.] Lord IVAR Alexander Michael Mountbatten, *London 9.3.1963; m.Clare, Suffolk 23.4.1994 Penelope Anne Vere Thompson (*Salisbury 17.3.1966)
        F1. Ella Louise Georgina Mountbatten, *20.3.1996
        F2. Alexandra Mountbatten, *Bridwell 8.5.1998
    - D2. Lady TATIANA Elizabeth Mountbatten, *Edinburgh 16.12.1917, +Northampton 15.5.1988
  - C2. Pr LOUIS Francis Albert Victor Nicholas von Battenberg, later Lord Louis Mountbatten, cr Viscount Mountbatten of Burma 23.8.1946, cr Earl Mountbatten of Burma, etc. 28.10.1947, *Windsor 25.6.1900, +assassinated off the coast of Ireland 27.8.1979; m.St.Margaret's Westminster, London 18.7.1922 Hon.Edwina Ashley (*Broadlands, Romsey, Hants 28.11.1901, +Jesselton, British North Borneo 21.2.1960)
    - D1. PATRICIA Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 2d Countess Mountbatten of Burma, *London 14.2.1924; m.Romsey Abbey 26.10.1946 John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Lord Brabourne (*London 9.11.1924)
    - D2. Lady PAMELA Carmen Louise Mountbatten, *Barcelona 19.4.1929; m.Romsey Abbey 13.1.1960 David Nightingale Hicks (*Little Coggeshall, Essex 25.3.1929, +The Grove, Brightwell Baldwin, Oxon 29.3.1998)
  - C3. Pss Victoria ALICE Elisabeth Julie Marie von Battenberg, *Windsor Castle 25.2.1885, +Buckingham Palace 5.12.1969; m.Darmstadt 7.10.1903 Pr Andrew of Greece and Denmark (*Athens 2.2.1882, +Monte Carlo 3.12.1944)
  - C4. Pss LOUISE Alexandra Marie Irene von Battenberg, later Lady Louise Mountbatten, *Schloss Heiligenberg 13.7.1889, +Stockholm 7.3.1965; m.Chapel Royal, St.James's Palace 3.11.1923 King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (*Stockholm 11.11.1882, +Helsingborg 15.9.1973)
  - C5. [illegitimate by Lily Langtry] Marie Jeanne Langtry, *Paris 1881; m.London 1902 Ian Malcolm
- B2.
  Pr ALEXANDER Joseph von Battenberg, *Verona 5.4.1857, +Graz 17.11.1893; he was elected reigning Prince of Bulgaria (29.4.1879-3.9.1886) abdicated; m.Mentone 6.2.1889 Johanna Marie Luise Loisinger (*Bratislava 18.4.1865, +Vienna 20.7.1951)
  - C1. Pr ARSÈNE Ludwig Alexander, Gf von Hartenau, *Graz 16.1.1890, +Vienna 15.3.1965; m.Vienna 7.5.1934 Bertha Hussa (*Hermagor, Kärnten 1.12.1892, +Vienna 4.11.1971)
  - C2. Pss Marie Therese Vera ZWETANA, Gfn von Hartenau, *Graz 24.10.1893, +Oberstdorf, Bavaria 24.11.1935; m.New York 29.12.1924 Charles Hercule Boissevain (*Amsterdam 18.10.1893, +Colorado Springs 19.10.1946)
- B3. Pr HENRY Maurice von Battenberg, granted style Royal Highness by Queen Victoria 23.7.1885, *Milan 5.10.1858, +at sea 20.1.1896; m.Whippingham Church, Isle of Wight 23.7.1885 Pss Beatrice of Great Britain and Ireland, etc (*Buckingham Palace 14.4.1857, +Brantridge Park 26.10.1944)
  - C4. Pss Victoria Eugénie (ENA) Julia von Battenberg, granted the style Royal Highness 3.4.1906, *Balmoral 24.10.1887, +Lausanne 15.4.1969, bur there; m.Madrid 31.5.1906 King Alfonso XIII of Spain (*17.5.1886 +28.2.1941)
- B4. Pr Franz Joseph von Battenberg, *Padua 24.9.1861, +Schaffhausen, Switzerland 31.7.1924; m.Cetinje 18.5.1897 Pss Anna of Montenegro (*Cetinje 18.8.1874, +Territet, Switzerland 22.4.1971)
- B5. Pss MARIE Caroline von Battenberg, *Geneva 15.7.1852, +Schönberg 20.6.1923; m.Darmstadt 29.4.1871 Fst Gustav zu Erbach-Schönberg (*Schönberg 17.8.1840, +Darmstadt 29.1.1908)
A4. Pss Amalia ELISABETH Luise Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine, *Darmstadt 20.5.1821, +Lausanne 27.5.1826
A5. Pss Maximiliane Wilhelmine Auguste Sophie MARIE, *Darmstadt 8.8.1824, +St.Petersburg 3.6.1880; m.St.Petersburg 28.4.1841 Emperor Alexander II of Russia (*29.4.1818 +13.3.1881)

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