Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse
（重定向自Philip of Hesse）
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Philip I of Hesse (13 November 1504 – 31 March 1567), nicknamed der Großmütige (the "magnanimous") was a leading champion of the Protestant Reformation and one of the most important of the early Protestant rulers in Germany.