Louis II of Brieg
Ludwig II of Legnica (also Ludwig II of Brieg, * 1384, † April 30, 1436 ) was from 1399 to 1436 Duke of Brieg and 1419-1436 Duke of Liegnitz. He came from a branch of the Silesian Piast Legnica.
Origin and family
His parents were Duke Henry VIII († 1399 ) and his second wife Margaret, daughter of the Duke Ziemowit III. of Mazovia. 1409, Louis married the Hungarian magnate daughter Hedwig Zápolya who died childless in 1414. To 1418 he married his second wife Elisabeth of Brandenburg, daughter of Elector Frederick I. This marriage produced children
- Ludwig ( † 1435 )
- Elisabeth (1426-1435)
- Magdalena († 1497 ) ∞ Duke Nicholas I of Opole († 1476 )
- Hedwig († 1471 ) ∞ Duke John I of Lubin († 1453)
Life
After the death of his father Henry VIII in 1399 divided Ludwig II and his half- brother Henry IX. , Who came from the first marriage of her father, the hereditary ownership, with Ludwig Brieg received with cross and castle Konstadt while Lüben, Ohlau, Nimptsch and semi Haynau to Henry IX. fell.
1402 Ludwig stepped in a land of peace alliance. Because he supported the Teutonic Knights, led to mutual boundary violations with Poland. He was initially a follower of the Czech King Wenceslas IV was only after his death in 1419, he supported his stepbrother Sigismund.
1419 Ludwig II inherited the Duchy of Legnica, whose sole owner was the Breslau Bishop Wenceslas of Legnica since 1409. The inheritance was made possible by a 1379 from the sovereign, the Czech King Wenceslas IV approved Gesamtbelehnung that of Ludwig II's grandfather Ludwig I and his nephew had been Ruprecht I obtained a home, and with the case of subregions could be prevented.
After the death of his half-brother Henry IX. 1419/20 Ludwig graduated with his sons Ruprecht II, Wenceslas III. and Ludwig III. a contract of inheritance, which this line should back up the entire possession.
The 1421 pledged by Emperor Sigismund to Louis Duchy Jägerndorf was thrown a short time later from Opava - Ratiborer Duke John II. On February 14, 1427, Ludwig II joined in chasing at a military alliance that was to combat the Hussites in Silesia, to which he had temporarily lost Konstadt, Pitschen and Cross Castle. In the same year he obtained of Kasimir I of Auschwitz chasing.
Together with the Breslau Bishop Konrad von Oels Ludwig II tried to regain the occupied by the Hussites Nimptsch in summer 1430. The on June 16, 1432 agreed between the Hussites and Silesia truce they did not join. However, you and Duke Bernhard von Falkenberg, the Dukes of Oels and the cities of Wroclaw, Schweidnitz and Neisse, signed on September 13, 1432 an agreement with the Hussites.
In his lifetime wrote about Ludwig II and his wife Elizabeth Goldberg, while his daughters, each with 10,000 florins were resigned. He led a lavish lifestyle and had to give up the ducal authority over Legnica to the City Council through pollution of the debt temporarily.
Ludwig II died in 1436 without male issue. However, because of the 1420 agreed with his nephew agreement as to succession, lacking the consent of the king, there were clashes that had the lasting to 1469 Liegnitzer Lehnstreit result. The nephew Ludwig III. Whose brothers had died, reported on its claim as the sole heir of Ludwig II. Shortly before his death, King Sigismund decided that a claim Duke Ludwig III. to the hereditary succession of Louis II was unfounded. At the same time he advocated that Louis undiminished possession passes to Louis widow Elizabeth. You could keep the Duchy of Legnica to 1449 as a dowry. From her it fell to Louis II great-nephew and son in law, Duke John I of Lubin, with Louis II the daughter Hedwig was married, however his claim could not prevail.
Duke Ludwig's body was buried in the Carthusian monastery founded by him in 1423 Liegnitz. After the Charterhouse under Frederick III. Was demolished in 1547, the bones of the interred there family members were transferred to the former St. John's Church, which now served as a palace church. There was Duchess Luise von Anhalt, the mother of the last Piast Liegnitzer Georg Wilhelm I build a family tomb, which still exists today.