William I, Landgrave of Lower Hesse

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House House of Hesse
Spouse Anna of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Issue Mathilda Mathilda Anna Katherine Elisabeth Father Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse Mother Mechthild of Württemberg-Urach Died 8 February 1515, Kassel, Germany Parents Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse Children Elisabeth of Hesse, Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken, Mathilde de Hessen Siblings William II, Landgrave of Hesse Similar William II - Landgrave of Hesse, Philip I - Landgrave of Hesse, Wolfgang - Count Palatine, Elisabeth of Hesse - Hereditar, Prince George William of

William I of Hesse (German: Wilhelm) (4 July 1466 – 8 February 1515) was the Landgrave of Hesse (Lower Hesse) from 1471 to 1493.

His parents were Louis the Frank (1438–1471) and Mechthild, daughter of Count Louis I of Württemberg. On 17 February 1488 in Münden, he married Anna of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel c. 1460 - Worms 16 May 1520], daughter of William II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Elisabeth, Countess of Stolberg, with whom he had five daughters:

Mathilda, born in 1489 but died young.

Mathilda (born 1490; died 6 May 1558), married in Korbach on 19 May 1527 Konrad, Count of Tecklenburg (born 1493; died 16 August 1557)

Anna (born 1491; died 1513), a nun

Katherine (died 1525), married in 1511 Adam Count von Beichlingen (died Krayenberg 14 July 1538)

Elisabeth [10 September 1503 - Lauingen 4 January 1563], first married in Meisenheim on 16 October 1525 to Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (born 1502; died 1532), later married on 9 January 1541 George, Count Palatine of Simmern (born 1518; died 1569).

After a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1491 where he was dubbed a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, he probably contracted syphilis. He abdicated in favor of his brother William II on 3 June 1493, and spent his life in Spangenberg.

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