ID: I1007
Name: Landgrave Georg I von Hessen-Darmstadt
Given Name: Landgrave Georg I
Surname: von Hessen-Darmstadt
Sex: M
Birth: 10 Sep 1547 in Kassel, Hessen
Death: 7 Feb 1595/96 in Kassel, Hessen
Burial: 29 Mar 1596 Stadtkirche, Darmstadt, Starkenburg, Hessen
Note: The Kranichstein Castle was built by Landgrave Georg I. i n 1578 as a hunting lodge. The Stadtkirche, mentioned fo r the first time as "Church of our Blessed Lady" in 1369, s till incorporates remaining parts of the original buildin g dating from about 1330. Landgrave Georg I chose the chur ch, which meanwhile had achieved the status of a City Churc h, as burial place of his house and had the vaults under th e choir reconstructed for this purpose. Worth seeing is th e 9-metre-high alabaster epitaph which Georg I ordered in 1 587 to be set up in memory of his first wife Magdalena of L ippe.
Father: Landgrave Philipp I Hessen b: 13 Nov 1504 in Marburg, Hessen
Mother: Princess Christine Sachsen b: 25 Dec 1505 in Dresden, Sachsen
Marriage 1
Princess Magdalena Lippe b: 24 Feb 1551-1552 in Detmold, Lippe
- Married:
17 Aug 1572
in Kassel, Hessen
Children
Landgrave Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt b: 16 Jun 1576 Landgrave Ludwig V von Hessen-Darmstadt b: 24 Sep 1577 in Darmstadt, Starkenburg, Hessen Princess Christine von Hessen-Darmstadt b: 25 Nov 1578 Princess Elisabeth von Hessen-Darmstadt b: 29 Nov 1579 Princess Maria von Hessen-Darmstadt b: 2 Dec 1580 Landgrave Philipp Hessen-Butzbach b: 26 Dec 1581 Princess Anna von Hessen-Darmstadt b: 3 Mar 1582/83 in Darmstadt, Starkenburg, Hessen Landgrave Friedrich I Hessen-Homburg b: 5 Mar 1584/85 in Darmstadt, Starkenburg, Hessen Princess Magdalena von Hessen-Darmstadt b: 5 May 1586 Landgrave Johann von Hessen-Darmstadt b: 22 Feb 1586/87 | |