Editing Donatus, Grand Duke of Hesse

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right" size="500px"
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! colspan="2" |HRH The Grand Duke of Hesse
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| colspan="2" |[[File:Hesse_Donatus.jpg|center|frameless]]
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|'''Titles'''
|Grand Duke of [[Hesse]]
Prince of [[Finland]]
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|'''Reign'''
|23 May 2013 - present
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|'''Coronation'''
|28 November 2013
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|'''Predecessor'''
|[[Grand Duke Moritz of Hesse|Moritz]]
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|'''Heir'''
|[[Moritz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse]]
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! colspan="2" |Biographical Information
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|'''Born'''
|17 October 1966 (age 58)

Helsinki, Finland
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|'''Spouse'''
|[[Countess Floria of Faber-Castell]]
(m. 2003)
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|'''Issue'''
|[[Princess Paulina of Hesse|Princess Paulina]]
[[Moritz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse|Moritz, Hereditary Grand Duke]]<br>
[[Prince August of Hesse|Prince August]]
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|'''Name'''
|Heinrich Donatus Philipp Umberto
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|'''House'''
|Hesse
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|'''Father'''
|[[Grand Duke Moritz of Hesse]]
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|'''Mother'''
|[[Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg]]
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|'''Religion'''
|Evangelical Church of Germany
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'''Donatus, Grand Duke of Hesse''' (born ''Prince Donatus of Finland'' on 17 October 1966) is the current Grand Duke of Hesse. 

==Life==
Donatus was born the eldest child and heir of '''Grand Duke Moritz of Hesse''' and '''Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg'''.

Donatus was born a Prince of Finland and third in line to the throne, but his grandfather renounced their Finnish succession rights in 1965 in order to succeed his distant cousin as Grand Duke of Hesse in 1968.

He succeeded his father as Grand Duke upon his death in 2013.

==Marriage and Issue==
On 25 April 2003, Donatus married '''Countess Floria of Faber-Castell''' in Darmstadt. Donatus and Floria have three children, '''Paulina, Moritz,''' and '''August'''.
{| class="wikitable"
!Photo
!Name
!Birth
!Death
!Marriage
|-
|[[File:Hesse Paulina.png|frameless|150x150px]]
|[[Princess Paulina of Hesse|Princess Paulina]]
|26 March 2007
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|Unmarried and without issue
|-
|[[File:Hesse Moritz 2007.png|frameless|150x150px]]
|[[Moritz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse|Moritz, Hereditary Grand Duke]]
|26 March 2007
|
|Unmarried and without issue
|-
|[[File:Hesse August.png|frameless|150x150px]]
|[[Prince August of Hesse|Prince August]]
|24 August 2012
|
|
|}

==Residences==
<gallery>
File:Residences Hesse Residential Palace.jpg|Residential Palace; Main Residence (March-May; September-November)
File:Residences Hesse Orangerie.jpg|Orangerie; Winter Residence (December-February)
File:Residences Hesse Schloss Fasanerie.jpg|Schloss Fasanerie; Summer Residence (June-August)
</gallery>

==Titles and Honours==

* '''1966-1968'''   Prince Donatus of Finland
* '''1968-1980'''   Prince Donatus of Hesse
* '''1980-2013'''   Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse
* '''2013-present'''   Donatus, Grand Duke of Hesse

===National Honours===
[[File:Honours_Hesse_Ludwig_Order.png|frameless|75x75px]] Ludwig Order (1981)

[[File:Honours_Hesse_Order_of_the_Golden_Lion_of_Hesse.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Golden Lion (1964)

[[File:Honours_Hesse_Order_of_Philip_the_Magnanimous.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of Philip the Magnanimous (2013)

[[File:Honours_Hesse_Order_of_the_Star_of_Brabant.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Star of Brabant (2013)

===Foreign Honours===
[[File:Honours_Prussia_Order_of_the_Black_Eagle.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Black Eagle (2013) (Germany)

[[File:Honours_Prussia_Order_of_the_Red_Eagle.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Red Eagle (2003) (Germany)

==Ancestry==
{| class="wikitable"
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!Parents
!Grandparents
!Great-Grandparents
!Great-Great-Grandparents
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|[[Grand Duke Moritz of Hesse]]
|[[Grand Duke Philipp of Hesse]]
[[Princess Mafalda of Italy]]
|[[King Fredrik Kaarle of Finland]]
[[Princess Margaret of Prussia]]

[[King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy]]

[[Princess Elena of Montenegro]]
|[[Grand Duke Frederick William of Hesse]]
[[Princess Anna of Prussia]]

[[Emperor Frederick III of Germany]]

[[Victoria, Princess Royal]]

[[King Umberto I of Italy]]

[[Princess Margherita of Genoa]]

[[King Nicholas I of Montenegro]]

[[Milena Vukotic]]
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|[[Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg]]
|[[Gustav Albrecht, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg]]
[[Margareta d'Ortrante]]
|[[Richard I, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg]]
[[Princess Madeleine of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg]]

[[Duke Charles Louis of Ortrante]]

[[Countess Madeleine Douglas]]
|[[Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg]]
[[Marie von Gemmingen-Hornberg]]

[[Prince Alfred of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg]]

[[Countess Pauline of Reichenbach-Lessonitz]]

[[Duke Gustave of Ortrante]]

[[Therese von Stedingk]]

[[Ludvig, Count of Skenninge]]

[[Countess Anne of Ehrensvard]]
|}

==Lines of Succession==
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! colspan="3" |Donatus, Grand Duke of Hesse
House of Hesse 

Born: 17 October 1966 
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| colspan="3" |<center>'''Lines of Succession'''</center>
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|<center>Preceded by</center>
|<center>Succession to the [[Hesse|Hessian]] throne</center>
|<center>Followed by</center>
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|<center><small>Incumbent</small>
'''<small>preceded by</small>'''
[[Grand Duke Moritz of Hesse|'''<small>Moritz</small>''']]</center>
|<center>Incumbent</center>
|<center>[[Moritz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse]]</center>
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[[Category:Hesse]]
[[Category:House Hesse]]
[[Category:Monarchs of Hesse]]
[[Category:Monarchs]]