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Philip the Magnanimous, the landgrave of Hesse, was the son of Landgrave William II and Duchess Anna of Mecklenburg.1
His father, William II, was an experienced soldier and an austere, cultivated man who died when Philip was only five years old. His mother, Anna of Mecklenburg, was described as an energetic and ambitious woman, though her relationship with Philip became strained following her remarriage in 1519 and his eventual conversion to the doctrines of Martin Luther.1