Everything about Hesse-marburg totally explained
The
Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg was a German
landgraviate, and independent
principality, within the
Holy Roman Empire, that existed between
1485 and
1500, and between
1567 and
1604/
1650.
It consisted of the city of
Marburg and the surrounding towns of
Gießen,
Nidda and
Eppstein, approximately what is today called
Oberhessen(Upper Hesse).
The area had been a semi-independent county under the counts Giso or Gisonen since the 11th century, which at their extinction fell to the Landgraves of
Thuringia in the 1130s.
When the daughter of
St. Elizabeth of Hungary,
Sophie of Brabant, was able to secure the Western parts of Thuringia for her son
Henry the Child in
1265, therefore founding the state of
Landgraviate of Hesse, the Marburg area became its core territory.
However, Hesse-Marburg, by its name, refers only to the subdivision around Marburg. Basically the old county. This became an independent principality due to inheritance, for example by a landgrave splitting his possessions among two or more sons.
- This was first the case in 1485, but as the landgrave died without issue, and the landgraviate reverted to the greater Hesse.
- This was again the case in 1567, Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse or Philip the Magnanimous split his large landgraviate into four parts, Hesse-Marburg being one of them.
When, in 1604
Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg died without male issue, he bequeathed equal shares of his territory to the landgraviates of
Hesse-Kassel (Marburg) and
Hesse-Darmstadt (Gießen, Nidda), yet under the condition that both territories should remain Lutheran. Hesse-Kassel was Calvinist at that time.
As the two lines argued over the details of the division,
Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel annexed the whole territory and introduced
Calvinism. After a long dispute and armed conflict, Maurice - who had enemies at home as well - resigned in
1627 and left his part of the territory to the landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt.
However, in the
Hesse War of 1645-1648, which was a sub-conflict of the
Thirty Years' War, the two lines, which were on different sides, again fought over the territory. This war led to the loss of life of up to two-thirds of the civilian population, one of the highest death toll in any German region in history.
In the end, the territory was divided as stipulated in Louis IV's will. Hesse-Kassel taking the northern and Hesse-Darmstadt the southern part.
All areas of Hesse-Marburg are today located within the German state of
Hesse.
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