Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt (; 24 September 1577 – 27 July 1626) was the

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of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1596 to 1626.

Early life

He was born on 24 September 1577 as the son of George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and Magdalene of Lippe, daughter of Bernhard VIII, Count of Lippe.

Biography

In 1604 he inherited a part of Hessen-Marburg after the death of Louis IV of Hesse-Marburg who was childless. The other half went to

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(or Hesse-Cassel), but since Maurice was a

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, Ludwig claimed a right on the whole of Hesse-Marburg. Lutheran professors of the

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who refused to convert to Calvinism founded in 1607 the University of Gießen which was named ''Ludoviciana''. This led to a conflict during the

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, between Louis V, who stood on the side of the

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, and Maurice, who was on the side of the Protestants. Hesse-Darmstadt suffered severely from the ravages from the Swedes during the conflict. The Landgrave died in 1626 and he was succeeded by

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. In 1722, Johann Georg Liebknecht, an astronomer at the University of Gießen, named a star, which he thought was a planet, '' Sidus Ludoviciana'' after Ludwig V.

Issue

Louis V married Magdalene of Brandenburg, daughter of John George, Elector of Brandenburg by his third wife, Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst. They had issue: * Elisabeth Magdalene of Hesse-Darmstadt (23 April 1600,

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– 9 June 1624,

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), who married Louis Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard. * Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt (30 July 1601 – 6 May 1659) * Sofie Agnes of Hesse-Darmstadt (12 January 1604,

– 8 September 1664, Hilpoltstein) married Johann Friedrich, Count Palatine of Sulzbach-Hilpoltstein. *

(17 March 1605 – 11 June 1661) * Juliane of Hesse-Darmstadt (14 April 1606,

– 15 January 1659

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) * Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (20 June 1607 – 11 September 1627) never married * John, Landgrave of Hesse-Braubach (17 June 1609,

– 1 April 1651, Ems) * Henry of Hesse-Darmstadt (1 April 1612,

– 21 October 1629) Never married or had children. * Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt (22 June 1613,

– 2 March 1614) Died young * Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt (12 September 1614,

– 16 September 1614) Died in infancy * Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt (28 February 1616,

– 19 February 1682)

Ancestry

References

Wikisource: ''Allgemeine Deutsch Biographie'' "Ludwig V." (in German)
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