Weissenfels Treaty

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The Weißenfels contract is a contract signed on July 1, 1249 at Weißenfels Castle in the course of the Thuringian War of Succession .

After the death of the last Ludowing Landgrave of Thuringia , Heinrich Raspe , the dispute over the Landgraviate of Thuringia began in 1247 . The Weißenfels Castle, located on the eastern edge of the old Ludowingian heartland and now Thuringian heritage, was an important point of contention in the Thuringian War of Succession. With this contract most of the Thuringian counts recognized the Wettin Heinrich III. of Meissen , the illustrious, as the new Landgrave of Thuringia .

literature

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