# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prince-alexander-of-hesse-and-by-rhine
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:51:59.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/prince-alexander-of-hesse-and-by-rhine"
name: "Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine"
slug: "prince-alexander-of-hesse-and-by-rhine"
description: "A Hessian prince whose morganatic marriage to a lady-in-waiting produced a dynasty that would give Europe the Battenbergs and Mountbattens — a name that still sits in palaces today."
tagline: "Third son and fourth child of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prince_Alexander_Ludwig_Georg_Friedrich_Emil_of_Hesse.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1823-07-15"
deathDate: "1888-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.9
  momentum:             12.11828760248315
  historical:           22.084056
  currentAttention:     66.57001328983932
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Politicians"
    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Other"
    slug: "other"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "19th Century"
    slug: "19th-century"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Prince%20Alexander%20of%20Hesse%20and%20by%20Rhine"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Hessen-Darmstadt"
    title: "Alexandre de Hessen-Darmstadt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Hesensko-Darmstadtsk%C3%BD"
    title: "Alexandr Hesensko-Darmstadtský"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_af_Hessen_og_ved_Rhinen"
    title: "Alexander af Hessen og ved Rhinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Hessen-Darmstadt"
    title: "Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BB%CE%AD%CE%BE%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%88%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82"
    title: "Αλέξανδρος της Έσσης"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_de_Hesse-Darmstadt"
    title: "Alejandro de Hesse-Darmstadt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%87%D8%B3%D9%86_%D9%88_%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "شاهزاده الکساندر هسن و راین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Hesse-Darmstadt"
    title: "Alexandre de Hesse-Darmstadt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Hesse-Darmstadt"
    title: "Alexandre de Hesse-Darmstadt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8%2C_%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9A_%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%9F"
    title: "אלכסנדר, נסיך הסן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_hessen%E2%80%93darmstadti_herceg"
    title: "Sándor hessen–darmstadti herceg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangeran_Aleksander_dari_Hessen_dan_Rhein"
    title: "Pangeran Aleksander dari Hessen dan Rhein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_d'Assia"
    title: "Alessandro d'Assia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%80%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%BF%E3%83%83%E3%83%88"
    title: "アレクサンダー・フォン・ヘッセン＝ダルムシュタット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%8C%EB%A0%89%EC%82%B0%EB%8D%94_%ED%8F%B0_%ED%97%A4%EC%84%BC%EB%8B%A4%EB%A6%84%EC%8A%88%ED%83%80%ED%8A%B8_%EB%8C%80%EA%B3%B5%EC%9E%90"
    title: "알렉산더 폰 헤센다름슈타트 대공자"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Александар фон Хесен-Дармштад"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_van_Hessen"
    title: "Alexander van Hessen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_av_Hessen-Darmstadt"
    title: "Alexander av Hessen-Darmstadt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_z_Hesji-Darmstadt"
    title: "Aleksander z Hesji-Darmstadt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Hesse_e_Reno"
    title: "Alexandre de Hesse e Reno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prin%C8%9Bul_Alexandru_de_Hesse_%C8%99i_Rin"
    title: "Prințul Alexandru de Hesse și Rin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD-%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Александр Гессен-Дармштадтский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%87%D8%B3%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ألكسندر أمير هسن والراين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%8A%D1%80_%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD-%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%89%D0%B0%D1%82"
    title: "Александър фон Хесен-Дармщат"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Alexander Ludwig Georg Friedrich Emil was born 15 July 1823, third son of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Wilhelmine of Baden. His sister became Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna when she married Tsar Alexander II of Russia, tying him to the Romanov court. He married Countess Julia von Hauke, who had served as lady-in-waiting to that same sister — a union considered morganatic because she lacked royal blood. Their children took the name Battenberg, later anglicized to Mountbatten, and the line spread through European aristocracy. He died 15 December 1888, having founded a family that would outlast his own princely house.