Moritz, Landgrave 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