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{{Infobox royalty<br />
| name = Louis II<br />
| title = [[Landgrave of Lower Hesse]]<br />
| image = File:2010-03-12 Marburg, Elisabethkirche 074 Landgrafen Grablege.jpg<br />
| caption = Stone effigies of Louis II, and his wife Mechthild of Württemberg-Urach.<br />
| spouse = Mechthild of Württemberg-Urach (also known as Matilda)<br />
| issue = Anna<br>Elisabeth<br>[[William I, Landgrave of Lower Hesse]]<br>[[William II, Landgrave of Hesse]]<br />
| house = [[House of Hesse]]<br />
| father = [[Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse]]<br />
| mother = [[Anna of Saxony, Landgravine of Hesse|Anna of Saxony]]<br />
| birth_date = 7 September 1438<br />
| birth_place =<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1471|11|8|1438|9|7|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place =<br />
}}<br />
'''Louis II of Hesse''' ({{langx|de|Ludwig}}) (7 September 1438 &ndash; 8 November 1471), called '''Louis the Frank''', was the [[Landgrave]] of [https://europeanheraldry.org/germany/princely-houses/house-hesse/early-hesse/ Lower Hesse] from 1458 - 1471.<br />
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He was the son of [[Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse]] and [[Anna of Saxony, Landgravine of Hesse|Anna of Saxony]]. He married Mechthild, daughter of [[Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg-Urach]] in 1454, and also known as Matilda. Their children were:<br />
* Anna [1455-1459]<br />
* Elisabeth (died young)<br />
* [[William I, Landgrave of Hesse]] (1466–1515)<br />
* [[William II, Landgrave of Hesse]] (1469–1509)<br />
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He also had seven (known) illegitimate children by his mistress, Margarethe von Holzheim (born about 1443 - died after 1515):<br />
* Anna of Hesse (born about 1460, married Heinz Missener, 23 May 1484)<br />
* Margarethe of Hesse (born about 1460, died 1524, married Heinrich Furster, mayor of [[Marburg]], 5 February 1486)<br />
* Johannes of Hesse (born about 1460, murdered 11 March 1531, married Gertrude ______)<br />
* Wilhelm of Hesse (born about 1470, died 1550 in Melsungen)<br />
* Luckel Lambrechts (born before 1471), a nun at the convent of Ahnaberg in Kassel<br />
* Ernst of Natega, a canon in Hildesheim<br />
* Friedrich of Hesse<br />
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The [[Landgraviate of Hesse]] had been divided by his father Louis I between Louis II and his brother [[Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse|Henry III]] into Hesse-Kassel (Lower Hesse) and Hesse-Marburg (Upper Hesse). The brothers fought about the exact demarcation of the realm until May 1470.<br />
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==Ancestry==<br />
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|1= 1. '''Louis II, Landgrave of Hesse'''<br />
|2= 2. [[Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse]]<br />
|3= 3. [[Anna of Saxony, Landgravine of Hesse|Anna of Saxony]]<br />
|4= 4. [[Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse]]<br />
|5= 5. [[Margaret of Hohenzollern-Nuremberg]]<br />
|6= 6. [[Frederick I, Elector of Saxony]]<br />
|7= 7. [[Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Catherine of Brunswick]]<br />
|8= 8. [[Louis the Junker of Hesse]]<br />
|9= 9. [[Elisabeth Countess of Sponheim-Kreuznach]]<br />
|10= 10. [[Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg]]<br />
|11= 11. [[Elisabeth of Meissen]]<br />
|12= 12. [[Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia]]<br />
|13= 13. [[Catherine of Henneberg]]-Schleusingen<br />
|14= 14. [[Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]]<br />
|15= 15. [[Sophie of Pomerania (d. 1406)|Sophie of Pomerania]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00008410/images/index.html?id=00008410&fip=75.53.202.1&no=2&seite=120 Ludwig II v. Hessen, ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'', Bd.: 52, Nachträge bis 1899: Linker - Paul, Leipzig, 1906]<br />
*[http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Ludwig_II._(Landgraf_von_Niederhessen) Wikisource: ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' "Ludwig II. (Landgraf von Niederhessen)"]<br />
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