Herman II (c. 1184 - December 27, 1247 ) - Count of Weimar-Orlamunde from 1206 from the kind of Askaniev .
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Biography
The youngest son of Count Siegfried III and his wife Sophia of Denmark. Rules hereditary possessions with his brother - Albrecht II .
He was at enmity with the Landgraves of Thuringia, German I and Ludwig IV .
He founded the city of Weimar near the castle of the same name and the Cistercian monastery in Oberweimar.
In the struggle of Welfs and Staufenov he supported the latter.
Family
Wife - Beatrice von Andex-Meran, daughter of the Meran Duke Otton I. Inherited the seigneur Plassenburg with Kulmbach and Mittlberg and the seigneur Bernek.
Children:
- Herman III (c. 1230–1283)
- Albrecht III (d. 1293)
- Otto III the Magnificent (c. 1236 - May 13, 1285)
- Sophia, from 1259 the wife of Count Henry VIII von Wade
- Otton the Younger, in 1265-1308 the canon of Wurzburg
- Herman, the priest.
Sources
- Helmut Assing: Die frühen Askanier und ihre Frauen, Kulturstiftung, Bernburg, 2002, p. 22
- Hans Patze and Walter Schlesinger: Geschichte Thüringens, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Graz, 1967, p. 157
- Andreas Thiele: Erzählende genealogische Stammtafeln zur europäischen Geschichte, vol. I, part 1, RG Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1993, table 168
- Eduard Winkelmann: Kaiser Friedrich II, vol. 1, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1963, pp. 379, 480, 481 and 508
- Eduard Winkelmann: Kaiser Friedrich II ', vol. 2, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1963, p. 221