Category:Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse

**Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse**
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Date of birth	12 September 1837; Bessungen (German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse)
Date of death	13 March 1892; Darmstadt (German Empire, Grand Duchy of Hesse)
Place of burial	Darmstadt;
Country of citizenship	Grand Duchy of Hesse;
Occupation	military officer;
Noble title	Grand Duke;
Family	House of Hesse;
Father	Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine;
Mother	Princess Elisabeth of Prussia;
Sibling	Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine; Prince Heinrich of Hesse and by Rhine; Prince Wilhelm of Hesse and by Rhine;
Child	Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine; Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine; Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine; Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine; Alexandra Feodorovna; Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine;
Spouse	Alice of the United Kingdom (1862–1878); Alexandrine von Hutten-Czapska (1884–);
Work location	Darmstadt;
Award received	Royal Order of the Seraphim; Order of St. Andrew; Knight Grand Officer of the Order of Willem (1882); Order of the Redeemer;
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English: Louis IV (Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Karl) (12 September 1837 - 13 March 1892), was the fourth Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 13 June 1877 until his death. Through his own and his children's marriages he was connected to the British Royal Family, to the Imperial house of Russia and other royal houses of Europe. On 1 July 1862, Louis married Princess Alice, the third child of Queen Victoria. Following the death of Princess Alice in 1878, Ludwig IV contracted a morganatic marriage on 30 April 1884 with Alexandrine von Hutten-Czapska (3 September 1854-8 May 1941), the former wife of Alexander Kolémine, the Russian chargé d'affaires in Darmstadt. His second wife received the title Countess von Romrod. The marriage, which caused great concern within his family, was annulled within a year.

Issue[edit]

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
By Princess Alice
Princess Victoria	5 April 1863	24 September 1950	married Prince Louis of Battenberg, later Marquess of Milford-Haven; had issue
Princess Elisabeth	1 November 1864	18 July 1918 17 July 1918	Took the name Yelisaveta Fyodorovna on her baptism into the Russian Orthodox Church; married Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (son of Alexander II of Russia); no issue
Princess Irene	11 July 1866	11 November 1953	married Prince Heinrich (son of Emperor Friedrich III of Germany); had issue
Prince Ernst Ludwig	25 November 1868	9 October 1937	Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (13 March 1892 – 9 November 1918); married (1) HRH Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; divorced (2) HH Princess Eleonore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich; had issue
Prince Friedrich	7 October 1870	29 May 1873	Suffered from haemophilia and died from internal bleeding after a fall from a window
Princess Alix	6 June 1872	17 July 1918	Took the name Alexandra Feodorovna on her baptism into the Russian Orthodox Church; married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; had issue
Princess Marie	24 May 1874	16 November 1878	Died of diphtheria
By Alexandrine von Hutten-Czapska, Countess von Romrod
no issue

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