Hermann II (Weimar-Orlamünde)

Bracteate Count Hermanns II., Weimar , Orlamünde or Magdala.

Hermann II of Weimar-Orlamünde (* around 1184 ; † December 27, 1247 ) from the Ascanian dynasty was from (1206-1247) Count of Weimar-Orlamünde .

Life

He was the youngest son of Count Siegfried III. (* 1155, † 1206) and Sophie of Denmark (* 1159, † 1208), daughter of King I. Waldemar .

After the death of his father in 1206, Heinrich II ruled together with his brother Albrecht II. He came increasingly into conflict with the Landgraves of Thuringia, who occupied the mountain Schauenforst between Orlamünde and Rudolstadt. Landgrave Hermann I took him prisoner in his Weimar castle in 1214 . Landgrave Ludwig IV also fought against both brothers. Hermann II. Succeeded despite the continuing Ludowingian distress, the territorial sovereignty through formation of Weimar as a city and Cistercian Abbey House Oberweimar expand. He was largely in the Hohenstaufen camp and caused the decline of the house with his constant feuds. The possessions around the two main places remained separate rulership complexes, and so it was logical that in 1264/65 the sons of Hermann II, Hermann III. and Otto III., divided the rule and the two almost independent lines Weimar and Orlamünde emerged.

progeny

Count Hermann II married Princess Beatrix von Andechs-Meranien , daughter of Count Otto I and heiress of the rule Plassenburg with Kulmbach and Mittelberg and the rule Berneck with Goldkronach , Meinau, Wirsberg , Pretzendorf (today Himmelkron ), Zwernitz and Trebgast . Your children were:

• Hermann (*? - †?) Was a clergyman
• Hermann III. (* around 1230; † 1283)
• Albrecht III. († 1293)
• Otto III. "The mighty", Lord of Weimar, Lord of Rudolstadt (1279), Lord of the Plassenburg, (* around 1236; † May 13, 1285); ∞ Agnes von Leiningen (* 1230/40; † around 1300)
• Sophie ∞ (before June 19, 1258) Heinrich VIII. Von Weida (around 1238; † September 17, 1279/1280)
• Otto , Canon of Würzburg (1265–1308)

literature

• Assing Helmut: The early Ascanians and their women. Bernburg Cultural Foundation 2002 page 22
• Patze, Hans / Schlesinger, Walter: History of Thuringia, Böhlau Verlag Cologne / Graz 1967 page 157
• Thiele, Andreas: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history Volume I, Part 1, RG Fischer Verlag Frankfurt / Main 1993, Plate 168
• Winkelmann Eduard: Kaiser Friedrich II. 1st volume, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt 1963, pages 379,480,481,508
• Winkelmann Eduard: Kaiser Friedrich II. Volume 2, Scientific Book Society Darmstadt 1963, page 221

Web links

• Hermann II., Count of Weimar-Orlamünde on "Genealogy Middle Ages"
• genealogy.euweb.cz Ascania 12
• MedLands THURINGA NOBILITY

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann II., Count of Weimar-Orlamünde in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hermann III., Count of Weimar-Orlamünde in "Genealogie Middle Ages"
3. ↑ Stammliste von Reuss # Vögte und Herren von Weida

predecessor	Office	successor
Siegfried III.	Count of Weimar-Orlamünde 1206–1247	Hermann III. Orlamünder line and Otto III. together with Albrecht III. Weimar Line