Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse

Philip I
Portrait by Hans Krell, 1534
Landgrave of Hesse
Reign	11 July 1509 – 31 March 1567
Predecessor	William II
Successor	William IV (Hesse-Kassel) Louis IV (Hesse-Marburg) Philip II (Hesse-Rheinfels) George I (Hesse-Darmstadt)

Born	13 November 1504 Marburg, Landgraviate of Hesse, Holy Roman Empire
Died	31 March 1567 (aged 62) Kassel, Landgraviate of Hesse, Holy Roman Empire
Spouse	Christine of Saxony (m. 1523; died 1549) Margarethe von der Saale (m. 1540; died 1566)
Issue	Agnes, Electress of Saxony, then Duchess of Saxony Anna, Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel Philipp Ludwig Barbara, Countess of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, then Countess of Waldeck Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg Elisabeth, Electress Palatine Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels Christine, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Philipp, Count of Dietz Hermann, Count of Dietz Christopher Ernst, Count of Dietz Margretha, Countess of Dietz Albrecht, Count of Dietz Philipp Konrad, Count of Dietz Moritz, Count of Dietz Ernst, Count of Dietz Anna, Countess of Dietz
House	House of Hesse
Father	William II, Landgrave of Hesse
Mother	Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Religion	Lutheran (since 1524) Roman Catholic (until 1524)
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Reformation
Part of a series on the
Ninety-five Theses, written by Martin Luther in 1517
Precursors Peter Waldo and Waldensians John Wycliffe and Lollardy Jan Hus and Hussites Girolamo Savonarola and Piagnoni Arnold of Brescia and Arnoldists Gottschalk of Orbais Ratramnus Claudius of Turin Berengar of Tours and Berengarians Wessel Gansfort Johann Ruchrat von Wesel Johannes von Goch Friends of God Pataria
Beginning Ninety-five Theses Diet of Worms Luther Bible Magisterials Radicals
Contributing factors Western Schism Avignon Papacy Bohemian Reformation Northern Renaissance Christian humanism German mysticism Johannes Gutenberg and his printing press Erasmus Johann Reuchlin
Theologies of seminal figures Theology of Martin Luther Theology of Huldrych Zwingli Theology of John Calvin
Protestant Reformers Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon Huldrych Zwingli John Calvin Martin Bucer William Tyndale Andreas Karlstadt Theodore Beza George Buchanan Heinrich Bullinger Peter Martyr Vermigli William Farel François Hotman John Knox Hubert Languet Thomas Müntzer Balthasar Hubmaier Menno Simons Thomas Cranmer Richard Hooker Jacobus Arminius Roger Williams Many others
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Major political leaders Henry VIII Elizabeth I Oliver Cromwell James VI and I William the Silent Gaspard II de Coligny Henry IV of France Jeanne d'Albret Stephen Bocskai Gabriel Bethlen Gustav II Adolf Frederick V, Elector Palatine Philip I of Hesse Electors of Saxony Frederick III John Frederick I
Counter-Reformation Catholic Church Council of Trent Counter-Reformation § Politics Censorship of the Bible § 16th century Anti-Protestantism Criticism Holy Roman Emperors Charles V Ferdinand II
Political and religious conflicts Thirty Years' War French Wars of Religion Eighty Years' War War of the Three Kingdoms German Peasants' War Wars of Kappel Schmalkaldic War
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Music Forms Hymnody of continental Europe Music of the British Isles Hymn tune Lutheran chorale Lutheran hymn Anglican church music Exclusive psalmody Scottish church music Normative principle Anglican chant Homophony vs. Polyphony Falsobordone Verse anthem Liturgies Reformed worship Calvin's liturgy Formula missae Deutsche Messe Liturgical Struggle Ecclesiastical Latin Lutheran and Anglican Mass in music Cyclic mass vs. Paraphrase mass Roman vs. Sarum Rites Sequence (retained by Lutherans, mostly banned by Trent) Hymnals First and Second Lutheran hymnals First Wittenberg hymnal Ausbund Swenske songer Thomissøn's hymnal Book of Common Prayer Metrical psalters Book of Common Order Souterliedekens Genevan Psalter Scottish Psalter Whole Book of Psalms
Conclusion and commemorations Conclusion Confessionalization with subsequent Protestant orthodoxy Peace of Westphalia Simultaneous rise of Pietism and Rationalism Monuments Reformation Wall Luther Monuments Calendrical commemoration Reformation Day Lutheran Anglican
Protestantism

Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (13 November 1504 – 31 March 1567), nicknamed der Großmütige (lit. 'the Magnanimous'), was a German nobleman and champion of the Protestant Reformation, notable for being one of the most important of the early Protestant rulers in Germany. He was one of the main belligerents in the War of the Katzenelnbogen Succession.