Louis II (26 December 1777, Darmstadt

Darmstadt

Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...

 – 16 June 1848, Darmstadt) was Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1830 until 5 March 1848 (He resigned in the German Revolution of 1848). He was the son of Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse

Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse

Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse was Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and later the first Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine....

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He was married to Wilhelmine of Baden

Wilhelmine of Baden

Wilhelmine of Baden was Grand Duchess consort of Hesse and the Rhine.She was the youngest daughter of Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden and Amalia of Hesse-Darmstadt...

 who was his first cousin. Through her, Louis had four surviving children - Louis III, Prince Charles

Prince Karl of Hesse and by Rhine

Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine was the second son of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and Wilhelmine of Baden.-Marriage:...

, Prince Alexander, and Marie, who became Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881...

. The last four were, however, more likely fathered by Baron August von Senarclens de Grancy

August von Senarclens de Grancy

August Ludwig Freiherr von Senarclens de Grancy was born Auguste Louis de Senarclens de Grancy at the Château d'Etoy in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, the ancestral home of the de Loriol Family, the firstborn son of three sons and four daughters of Cesar August Freiherr von Senarclens de Grancy,...

, the longtime lover

Sexual partner

Sexual partners are people who engage in sexual activity together. The sexual partners can be of any gender or sexual orientation. The sexual partners may be in a committed relationship, either on an exclusive basis or not, or engage in the sexual activity on a casual basis...

 of his wife.

Children

• Ludwig III, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1806–1877)
• Prince Karl of Hesse and by Rhine
  Prince Karl of Hesse and by Rhine
  Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine was the second son of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and Wilhelmine of Baden.-Marriage:...
  
   (1809–1877)
• Prince/Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt (born & died 1820)
• Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1821–1826)
• Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
  Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
  Prince Alexander Ludwig Georg Friedrich Emil of Hesse, GCB was the third son and fourth child of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and Wilhelmina of Baden.-Questioned parentage:...
  
   (1823–1888)
• Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1824–1880)

Ancestry