Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg

Louis Roman ( born May 7, 1328 Rome, † between November 11, 1364 and February 27, 1365 ) was as Louis VI. Duke of (upper ) and Bavaria as Louis II Markgraf and first Elector of Brandenburg. As Margrave of Brandenburg, he is also known as Louis the Younger.

Life

Louis the Romans was the first son of the second marriage of the Holy Roman Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria Margaret of Holland. He was born in 1328 in Rome when his parents were staying there for the imperial coronation of the father. In October 1347 Louis died of Bayer and Louis the Romans followed him, together with his five brothers as Duke of Bavaria to.

Ludwig renounced the inheritance of his mother, the Dutch counties, in favor of his younger brothers, William and Albert, because he. By marrying a daughter of King Casimir III Poland hoped to obtain the Polish crown. Later hereditary claims he could not prevail against Wilhem and Albrecht. In the conflict over the rule in Holland Ludwig supported his mother to William, however, emerged as the winner.

In the division of the Duchy of Bavaria with his brothers in Landsberger contract in 1349, he was with his brothers Louis and Otto V. Upper Bavaria, which he and Otto exchanged in December 1351 with Louis V in Luckauer contract against the Mark Brandenburg and Mark Lausitz. Here he forced the wrong Woldemar finally to renounce Brandenburg, but got into debt and had to pawn parts of the cord. He also had to finally give up Brandenburg feudal rights in Pomerania and Mecklenburg.

1356 Ludwig gained by the Golden Bull of Emperor Charles IV as Prince Elector of Brandenburg, the electoral dignity. 1358 Ludwig was freed from the papal ban.

Louis graduated out of hatred for his Bavarian brothers, with whom he had quarreled because of the cure and the Bavarian succession after the death of his nephew Meinhard, 1363 Erbverbrüderung with Charles IV, which this after his and Otto's children Wi death the Mark Brandenburg assured. Ludwig was thereupon pay homage to the emperor the stands.

When Louis died at the age of 36 years, his brother Otto became his successor. Ludwig was buried in the Grey Monastery in Berlin.

Monument

Statue of Louis Emil Graf Goertz to slot in the Berlin Victory Boulevard with the two busts of the Red Knights Hasso von Wedel and Friedrich von punching, unveiled on 14 November 1900 as a memorial group 11