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LANOGRAVE OF HESSE PHILIP (1504-1567)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 389 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HESSE See also:PHILIP (1504-1567)  , son of the See also:landgrave See also:William II., was See also:born at See also:Marburg on the 13th of See also:November 1504 . He became landgrave on his See also:father's See also:death in 1509, and having been declared of See also:age in 1518, was married in 1523 to See also:Christina, daughter of See also:George, See also:duke of See also:Saxony (d . 1539) . In 1522 and 1523 he assisted to quell the rising of See also:Franz von See also:Sickingen (q.v.), who had raided See also:Hesse five years previously, and in 1525 he took a leading See also:part in crushing the See also:rebellion of the peasants in See also:north See also:Germany, being mainly responsible for their defeat at See also:Frankenhausen . About this See also:time See also:Philip adopted the reformed faith, of which he was after-wards the zealous and daring defender . Indifferent to theological, or even to patriotic, considerations, his plans to protect the reformers rested upon two See also:main principles—unity among the Protestants at See also:home and military aid from abroad . The schemes he put forward as one of the heads of the See also:league of See also:Schmalkalden, aimed primarily at overthrowing the See also:house of See also:Habsburg; to this end aid was sought from foreigner and native, from See also:Protestant and See also:Catholic alike . Envoys were sent repeatedly to See also:France, See also:England and See also:Denmark; See also:Turkey and See also:Venice were looked to for assistance; the See also:jealousy See also:felt towards the Habsburgs by the Bavarian Wittelsbachs was skilfully fomented; and the See also:German Protestants were assured that attack was the best, See also:nay the only, means of See also:defence . Before the formation of the league of Schmalkalden Philip was very intimate with See also:Zwingli, and up to the time of the reformer's death, in 1531, he hoped that material aid would be forthcoming from his followers . In 1526 he had aided See also:John the See also:Constant, elector of Saxony, to See also:form an See also:alliance of reforming princes; and in 1529 he called together the abortive See also:conference at See also:Mar-See also:burg, hoping thus to See also:close the See also:breach between See also:Lutherans and Zwinglians . More aggressive was his See also:action in 1528 . Deceived by the forgeries of See also:Otto von See also:Pack (q.v.), he believed in the existence of a See also:conspiracy to crush the reformers, and was only restrained from attacking his enemies by the See also:influence of John of Saxony and See also:Luther .

He succeeded, however, in compelling the See also:

archbishop of See also:Mainz and the bishops of Wiirzburg and See also:Bamberg to contribute to the cost of his mobilization . Philip was freely accused of having employed Pack to concoct the See also:forgery; and, although this See also:charge is doubtless false, his eager See also:acceptance of Pack's unproved statements aroused considerable See also:ill-feeling among the Catholics, which he was not slow to return . In 1529 the landgrave signed the " protest " which was presented to the See also:diet at See also:Spires, being thus one of the See also:original " Protestants; " in 1530 he was among the subscribers to the See also:confession of See also:Augsburg; and the formation of the league of Schmalkalden in the same See also:year was largely due to his See also:energy . His next important undertaking, the restoration of See also:Ulrich, duke of Wurtemberg (q.v.) to his duchy, was attended with conspicuous success . Wurtemberg had passed into the See also:possession of the Habsburgs, but after Philip's brief and victorious See also:campaign in 1534 the humiliation of See also:Charles V. and his See also:brother, the German See also:king, See also:Ferdinand I., was so See also:complete that it was Charles V. at the hands of See also:Maurice in 1552; and after the conclusion of the See also:peace of See also:Passau in this year he returned to Hesse . Although less active than formerly, the landgrave did not cease to intrigue on behalf of the Protestants while continuing the See also:work of reforming and organizing the See also:Church in Hesse . In 1562 he aided the See also:Huguenots with troops, and he was frequently in communication with the insurgents in the See also:Netherlands; but his efforts to form a See also:union of the Protestants were fruitless . Philip, who is sometimes called the Magnanimous, died at See also:Cassel on the 31st of See also:March 1567 . By Christina he had four sons and five daughters, and according to his directions the landgraviate was partitioned at his death between his sons . He had also by See also:Margaret von der Saal seven sons, who were called See also:counts of Dietz, and one daughter . See Ch. von Rommel, Philipp der Grossmuthige (See also:Giessen, 183o); Brief wechsel Landgraf Philipps mit See also:Bucer, edited by M . See also:Lenz (See also:Leipzig, 1881—189o); Politisches Archiv See also:des Landgrafen Philipp, edited by F .

Kiich (Leipzig, 1904) ; L . G . Mogen, Historia captivitatis See also:

Philippi Magnanimi (See also:Frankfort, 1766) ; W . Falckenheiner, Philipp der Grossmuthige See also:im Bauernkriege (Marburg, 1887) ; H . See also:Schwarz, Landgraf Philipp von Hessen and See also:die Packschen See also:Handel (Leipzig, 1881); J . Wille, Philipp der Grossmuthige von Hessen and die Restitution Ulrichs von See also:Wurttemberg (See also:Tubingen, 1882); W . W . Rockwell Die Doppelehe des Landgrafen Philipp von Hessen (Marburg, 19o4); A . Heidenhain, Die Unionspolitik Philipps von Hessen (See also:Halle, 1890) ; K . Varrentrapp, Landgraf Philipp von Hessen and die Universitat Marburg (Cassel, 19o4); Von Drach and Konnecke, Die Bildnisse Philipps des Grossmutigen (Cassel, 19o5); Festschrift zum Gedachtnis Philipps, published by the Verein See also:fur hessische Geschichte and Landeskunde (Cassel, 19o4); and Philipp der Grossmutige, Beth-age zur Geschichte seines Lebens and seiner Zeit, published by the Historischer Verein fur das Grossherzogtum Hessen (Marburg, 1904) .

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