Template:House of Hesse and by Rhine

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Usage
This template should be called by passing a variable to it for the closest monarch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. For example,  . This calls only the relevant part of the template, as well as getting around the fair use violation that would occur if the arms images were directly on this template.

Variables

 * louis1 - for Louis I and his descendants
 * louis2 - for Louis II and his descendants
 * louis3 - for Louis III
 * louis4 - for Louis IV and his descendants
 * ernestlouis - for Ernest Louis and his descendants
 * house - for everything

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