Herman II ( German: Hermann II .; March 28, 1222 , Kreuzburg - January 3, 1241 , Kreuzburg ) - Landgrave of Thuringia from 1227 from the Luding dynasty. He also bore the titles of Margrave Meissen and Count of Hesse-Godensberg.
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Biography
Herman II was the son of Landgrave Ludwig IV and Elizabeth of Hungary , daughter of King Andras II .
He was 5 years old when his father died of the plague in the Sixth Crusade . The regent of the young landgrave was his uncle Heinrich Raspe . He expelled Elizabeth of Hungary from the country, and after her death in 1231 declared himself co-ruler of his nephew.
In 1239, Herman II married Helen, daughter of the Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg Otto I Child .
Herman died in 1241 at the age of 19. It is believed that he was poisoned. He had no children. His widow Elena Braunschweig (1223–1273) in 1247/1248 remarried to Albrecht I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg .
Sources
- Mägdefrau, Werner (2010). Thüringen im Mittelalter 1130-1310 Von den Ludowingern zu den Wettinern. Jena: Rockstuhl. ISBN 978-3-86777-152-8 .
- Knochenhauer, Theodor (1871). Geschichte Thüringens Zur Zeit Des Ersten Landgrafenhauses (1039-1247). Gotha.
- Galletti, Johann Georg A. Geschichte Thüringens.