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Born | Darmstadt, Hesse | 15 July 1823||||
Died | 15 December 1888 Jugenheim, Hesse | (aged 65)||||
Burial | Rosenhohe, Darmstadt | ||||
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House | Hesse-Darmstadt | ||||
Father | Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (officially) August von Senarclens de Grancy (rumored) | ||||
Mother | Wilhelmine of Baden |
Grand Ducal Family of Hesse and by Rhine |
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Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine GCB (Alexander Ludwig Georg Friedrich Emil; 15 July 1823 – 15 December 1888), was the third son and fourth child of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Wilhelmine of Baden. He was a brother of Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. The Battenberg-Mountbatten family descends from Alexander and his wife Countess Julia von Hauke, a former lady-in-waiting to his sister.