History
Before it was occupied by revolutionary France in 1792, today's Rhenish Hesse had been a patchwork of possessions of the catholic Archbishopric of Mainz and Bishopric of Worms and the Protestant Electorate of the Palatinate.
At the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15, Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, had to give up his Westphalian territories, but was compensated with the district of Rheinhessen on the left bank of the Rhine. Because of this addition, he amended his title to Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and the name of the region was created.
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