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unusual facts about Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse



Duchy of Brabant

Upon the death of Count Palatine Herman II of Lotharingia in 1085, Emperor Henry IV assigned his fief between the Dender and Zenne rivers as the Landgraviate of Brabant to Count Henry III of Leuven and Brussels.

Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg

# Margaret (d. 1406, Gudensberg), married in Kulmbach 1383 Landgrave Hermann II of Hesse.

Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse

Hermann II, called "the Learned", was born in 1345 in Grebenstein castle, the son of Louis the Junker.

Hersfeld Abbey

The town of Hersfeld, now Bad Hersfeld, grew up outside the abbey, and flourished, to the extent that it found itself strong enough to assert its independence, and in 1371 formally placed itself under the protection of the Landgraves of Hesse.

Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel

Her father's older brother was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.


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