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Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

Louis III
Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
Reign	5 March 1848 – 13 June 1877
Predecessor	Louis II
Successor	Louis IV
Born	(1806-06-09)9 June 1806 Darmstadt, Hesse
Died	13 June 1877(1877-06-13) (aged 71) Seeheim, Hesse
Burial	Rosenhohe, Darmstadt
Spouse	Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria Baroness Magdalen of Hochstadten (morganatic)
House	Hesse-Darmstadt
Father	Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
Mother	Wilhelmine of Baden

Grand Ducal Family of Hesse and by Rhine
Louis II
Children Louis III Prince Charles Princess Elisabeth Prince Alexander Maria Alexandrovna, Empress of Russia Grandchildren Louis IV Prince Heinrich Anna, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Prince Wilhelm
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Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Großherzog Ludwig III von Hessen und bei Rhein; 9 June 1806, Darmstadt – 13 June 1877, Seeheim) was Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1848 until his death in 1877.

Biography[edit]

1859 thaler of Hesse, depicting Louis III.

He was the son of Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse and his consort Wilhelmine of Baden. He succeeded as Grand Duke in 1848 upon the abdication of his father during the March Revolution in the German states.

During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Louis sent word more than once to Queen Victoria, mother-in-law of his nephew and successor Louis, appealing to her to reason on his behalf with the King of Prussia, "in the same sense I had already written before, but it would be utterly useless."^[1]

He was succeeded by his nephew, Louis IV, on 13 June 1877, as his brother Charles (Louis' father) had already died three months previously, in March.

Marriages[edit]

In Munich, on 26 December 1833, he married Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, eldest daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria. The marriage produced no children. Princess Mathilde Caroline died in 1862, and in 1868 the Grand Duke remarried, morganatically, to Magdalene Appel who was created Baroness of Hochstädten.

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