Grand Ducal House of Hesse (Brabant)
Coat of arms: Hesse, the country of the Chatti (ancient Germanic tribe whose homeland was near the upper Weser ), was conquered by Giso – count of Gudensberg, in 1120. The first landgrave of Hesse was Henry the Child (1265), who was named prince by the imperial council in 1292. The latter descended from Duke Henry II of Brabant and Sophie, the daughter of Louis of ...