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George I of Hesse-Darmstadt (10 September 1547 – 7 February 1596) was the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1567 to 1596. Early life. Born on 10 September 1547 in Kassel, he was the fourth son of Philip I the Magnanimous of Hesse and his wife, Christine of Saxony . Biography.
The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt came into existence in 1567, when George, youngest of the four sons of Landgrave Philip I "the Magnanimous", received the Hessian lands in the former upper County of Katzenelnbogen.
George I (1547-1596), the first Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, initiated the construction of the princely crypt under the choir of the city church. This probably was as early as around 1576, after his first-born son, Philip William, had died when he was barely five months old.
George I (1547-1596) Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1567, fourth son of Philip I the Magnanimous. Married Magdalene of Lippe (1552–1587) daughter of Bernhard VIII, Count of Lippe. Louis V (1577 – 1626) Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Engraving with etching of George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. Whole length with short hair, plumed cap, beard, opne ruff, embroidered doublet, breeches, and cape. The Landgrave is pictured standing with right hand on hip and left holding gloves, with drapery behind and with a view of a river within a garden in the background.
the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (known as the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1806 and the People's State of Hesse from 1918) to George I. The Hessian territories were not re-united until the formation of Greater Hesse (though without Rhenish Hesse) as part of Allied-occupied Germany in 1945.
The Hessian landgraviate, a precarious political amalgam in the west central part of the Holy Roman Empire, exemplified the changing fortunes of German territorial organization over the early modern period.
