Ancestral Trails 2016 » Maurice von HESSE-KASSEL (1572-1632)

Personal data Maurice von HESSE-KASSEL 


Household of Maurice von HESSE-KASSEL

He is married to Agnes von SOLMS-LAUBACH.

They got married on September 23, 1593, he was 21 years old.


Child(ren):

  3. Otto von HESSE-KASSEL  1594-1617 


Notes about Maurice von HESSE-KASSEL

Maurice of Hesse-Kassel (German: Moritz) (25 May 1572 - 15 March 1632), also called Maurice the Learned, was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1592 to 1627. Maurice was born in Kassel as the son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and of his wife Sabine of Württemberg.

Although Maurice had been raised in the Lutheran faith, he converted to Calvinism in 1605. On the principle Cuius regio eius religio, Maurice's subjects were also required to convert to Calvinism. Maurice's conversion was controversial since the Peace of Augsburg had only settled religious matters betweens Roman Catholics and Lutherans and had not considered Calvinists. Maurice tried to introduce Calvinism to the lands which he had inherited from the extinct Hesse-Marburg branch of his family. Such a change of faith was contrary to the inheritance rules, and resulted in an ongoing conflict with the Hesse-Darmstadt branch. It also brought him into conflict with the Holy Roman Emperor, Matthias.

English strolling players ('Die Englische Comoedianten') were frequent visitors to, and performers in, towns and cities in Germany and other European countries, including Kassel, during the 16th and 17th centuries. Landgraf Moritz (to use his German nomenclature) was a great supporter of the performing arts and even built the first permanent theatre in Germany, named the Ottoneum, in 1605. This building still exists today but as a Natural History Museum.

Maurice's actions (though not necessarily the Ottoneum) ruined Hesse-Kassel financially. In 1627 he abdicated in favour of his son William V. Five years later he died in Eschwege. He was not only a serious musician but an expert composer (a Pavane of his, for the lute, has several times been recorded by both lutenists and guitarists). The leading musical figures whom he supported included Heinrich Schütz and John Dowland.

Marriages and issue
On 23 September 1593, Maurice married Agnes of Solms-Laubach (7 January 1578 - 23 November 1602). They had six children:
Otto, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Kassel (b. Kassel, 24 December 1594 - Hersfeld, 7 August 1617).
Elisabeth (b. Kassel, 24 March 1596 - d. Güstrow, 16 December 1625), married John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg.
Stillborn child (24 January 1597).
Stillborn child (August 1599).
Maurice (b. Kassel, 14 July 1600 - d. Kassel, 11 August 1612).
William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (b. Kassel, 13 February 1602 - d. Leer, Ostfriesland, 21 September 1637).

On 22 May 1603, Maurice married Countess Juliane of Nassau-Dillenburg (3 September 1587 - 15 February 1643). They had fourteen children:
Philipp (b. Kassel, 26 September 1604 - killed in battle, Lutter am Barenberge, 17 June 1626).
Agnes (b. Kassel 14 May 1606 - d. Dessau, 28.5.1650), married John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.
Herman (b. Kassel, 15 August 1607 - d. Rotenburg, 25 March 1658), inherited Rotenburg.
Juliane (b. Marburg, 7 October 1608 - d. Kassel, 11 December 1628).
Sabine (b. Kassel, 5 July 1610 - d. Kassel, 21 May 1620).
Magdalene (b. Kassel, 25 August 1611 - d. Bedburg, 12 February 1671), married Erich Adolf, Count of Salm-Reifferscheid.
Maurice (b. Kassel, 13 June 1614 - d. Kassel, 16 February 1633).
Sophie (b. Kassel, 12 September 1615 - d. Bückeburg, 22 November 1670), married Philip I, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe.
Frederick (b. Kassel, 9 May 1617 - killed in battle, Kosten, 24 September 1655), inherited Eschwege.
Christian (b. Kassel, 5 February 1622 - d. Bückeburg, 14 November 1640), Swedish colonel, died after an altercation with General Johan Banér and some other officers; he was probably poisoned.
Ernest (b. Kassel, 17 December 1623 - d. Köln, 12 May 1693), inherited Rheinfels.
Christine (b. Kassel, 9 July 1625 - d. Kassel, 25 July 1626).
Philipp (b. Kassel, 28 September 1626 - d. Rotenburg, 8 July 1629).
Elisabeth (b. Kassel, 23 October 1628 - d. Kassel, 10 February 1633).
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice,_Landgrave_of_Hesse-Kassel

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Birthday May 25, 1572

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1572: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 1 » In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
    • July 9 » Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
    • August 18 » Marriage in Paris, France, of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
    • October 20 » Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the relief of Goes.
    • November 11 » Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.
    • December 23 » Theologian Johann Sylvan is executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.

Day of marriage September 23, 1593

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1593: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 12 » Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
    • May 12 » London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel.
    • May 18 » Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
    • June 22 » Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.
    • July 25 » Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
    • August 27 » Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France.

Day of death March 15, 1632

  • Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1632: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 22 » Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems .
    • March 29 » Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
    • April 15 » Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
    • July 23 » Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.


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