The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918...

Two of his daughters married into the House of Romanov. Louis was born at the Prinz-Karl-Palais in Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and...

in Paris. Based on the 1820 Constitution of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, he was a member of the First Chamber of Parliament until becoming sovereign in 1830...

(1567–1918), became Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806 Hesse-Butzbach (1609–1642) Hesse-Braubach (1609–1651) Hesse-Homburg (1622–1866) Hesse-Itter (1661–1676)...

Grand Duke of Hesse and Wilhelmine of Baden. The prince had a military career and became a general in the infantry of the army of the Grand Duchy of Hesse...

Darmstadt, hence the name. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, the landgraviate was elevated to the Grand Duchy of Hesse following the Empire's dissolution...

grand duchies. As a result, the 19th century saw the creation of a new group of grand duchies in central Europe, such as the grand duchies of Hesse,...

into Hesse-Homburg and Hesse-Homburg-Bingenheim; but these parts were reunited in 1681. In 1806, Hesse-Homburg was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Hesse...

Wiesbaden. The largest part of the province surrounded the province of Upper Hesse in the Grand Duchy of Hesse (People's State of Hesse from 1918). On 1 April...

from the Duchy of Thuringia in 1247, and the flag came into use in the early modern Landgraviate of Hesse; the modern Grand Duchy of Hesse used a flag...