William I of Hesse () (4 July 1466 – 8 February 1515) was the
Landgrave of Hesse
The Landgraviate of Hesse () was a Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, principality of the Holy Roman Empire. It existed as a single entity from 1264 to 1567, when it was divided among the sons of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.
History
In the early ...
(
Lower Hesse
Lower Hesse is a historic designation for an area in northern Hesse, Germany.
The term Lower Hesse originated in the Middle Ages for the so-called "lower principality" of Hesse, which was separated until 1450 from the so-called "upper principali ...
) from 1471 to 1493.
His parents were
Louis the Frank (1438–1471) and Mechthild, daughter of Count
Louis I of Württemberg. On 17 February 1488 in
Münden, he married
Anna of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel c. 1460 -
Worms
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16 May 1520], daughter of
William IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, William IV, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and
Elisabeth, Countess of Stolberg, with whom he had five daughters:
* Mathilda, born in 1489 but died young.
* Mathilda (born 1490; died 6 May 1558), married in
Korbach
Korbach (), officially the Hanseatic City of Korbach (German language, German: Hansestadt Korbach), is the district seat of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany. It is over a thousand years old and is located on the German Timber-Frame Ro ...
on 19 May 1527 Konrad, Count of Tecklenburg (born 1493; died 16 August 1557)
* Anna (born 1491; died 1513), a nun
* Katherine (died 1525), married in 1511 Adam Count von Beichlingen (died
Krayenberg
The Krayenberg () is a hill near Tiefenort, Germany. Since 500 BCE it was a rampart and served as a refuge
for the central part of the Werratal. It became important for German history due to the Krayenburg, which was built on its top after 786, ...
14 July 1538)
*
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After a pilgrimage to the
Holy Land
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in 1491 where he was dubbed a
Knight of the Holy Sepulchre
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, he probably contracted
syphilis
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. He abdicated in favor of his brother William II on 3 June 1493, and spent the rest of his life in
Spangenberg
Spangenberg is a small town in northeastern Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Spangenberg lies in the Schwalm-Eder district some southeast of Kassel, west of the Stölzinger Gebirge, a low mountain range. Spangenberg is the demographic centrepoint of ...
.
Literature
*Phillip Landgrebe:
Der Reisebericht Dietrichs von Schachten'. In: Zeitschrift für hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde (ZHG), Bd. 123 (2018), p. 177–198 (See the third chapter about the pilgrimage of Wilhelm I.: p. 185–191).
References
External links
Wilhelm I. v Hessen''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie''. Band 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 27.
Wikisource: ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie''
House of Hesse
Landgraves of Hesse
Medieval child monarchs
Medieval Knights of the Holy Sepulchre
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