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  Thuringia
Ludwig III "der Milde", Landgrave of Thuringia (1172-90), Ct Palatine of Saxony, *ca 1152, +1190; 1m: 1172 Margarete of Cleves (+ca 1184); 2m: ca 1184 Sophie (+1198) dau.of Pr Wolodar of Polotzk
Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia (1190-1217), Ct Palatine of Saxony (1180-1217), +Schloß Friedenstein 25.4.1217; 1m: ca 1182 Sofie (+1189/90) dau.of Friedrich, Ct Palatine von Sommerschenburg; 2m: 1196 Sofie of Bavaria (+1238)
Ludwig IV "der Heilige", Landgrave of Thuringia, Ct Palatine of Saxony (1217-1227), Regent of Meissen (1221-27), +Otranto 11.9.1227; m.1221 Pss Elizabeth of Hungary (*1207 +17.11.1231)
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 About
At the age of four, Elisabeth was betrothed to the Blessed Ludwig IV of Thuringia, son of Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia, and was raised at the magnificent court kept at Wartburg.
Ludwig was not upset by the distribution of his wealth to the poor believing that his wife's charitable efforts would bring eternal reward; he is venerated in Thuringia as a saint.
With Ludwig's death, his younger brother Henry assumed the regency during the minority of Elisabeth's eldest son, Hermann II landgrave of Thuringia (1222–1241).
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 St. Elizabeth of Hungary
In 1211 a formal embassy was sent by Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia to Hungary to arrange, as was customary in that age, a marriage between his eldest son Hermann and Elizabeth, who was then four years old.
Shortly after their marriage, Elizabeth and Ludwig made a journey to Hungary; Ludwig was often after this employed by the Emperor Frederick II, to whom he was much attached, in the affairs of the empire.
In the spring of 1226, when floods, famine, and the pest wrought havoc in Thuringia, Ludwig was in Italy attending the Diet at Cremona on behalf of the emperor and the empire.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/elizabeth_of_hungary,saint.html   (1953 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Elizabeth of Hungary
She was a daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary (1205-35) and his wife Gertrude, a member of the family of the Counts of Andechs-Meran; Elizabeth's brother succeeded his father on the throne of Hungary as Bela IV; the sister of her mother, Gertrude, was St.
The court of Thuringia was at this period famous for its magnificence.
Weeping bitterly, she buried the body in the family vault of the landgraves of Thuringia in the monastery of Reinhardsbrunn.
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 Regents of Thuringia
Thuringia is conquered by the Frankish kingdom 531
During the 11th century did the Ludowingian dynasty acquire several counties in Thuringia and Hesse and these were 1130 transformed into the landgraviate of Thuringia.
Thuringia became instead a part of the lands of the house of Wettin, which included the margraviate of Meissen.
www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/regents/germany/thuringia.htm   (325 words)

  
 world of old Cherusker, mountains - thuringia forest
The sons of Ludwig II, Ludwig III and Hermann I fighted at the side of Emporer Barbarossa.
Herman I was Eral of Thuringia and Hessen and count of Saxonia.
Ludwig IV, the holy man, lived with his wife, the holy Elizabeth, here up to the yeras 1227.
www.alter-cherusker.de /eng/berge/thuringer_wald_historisches.html   (258 words)

  
 Saint Elizabeth of Hungary - Biography
Ludwig was so sympathetic and patient with Elizabeth's acts of charity and penance that he was known to have sometimes held her hands during her nightly prayer vigils.
When Ludwig discovered what she had done, he is said to have snatched off the bedclothes in great indignation, "But," the historian relates, "at that instant Almighty God opened the eyes of his soul, and instead of a leper he saw the figure of Christ crucified stretched upon the bed."
Ludwig joined the Emperor Frederick II in crusade and in 1227 died a victim of the plague.
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 How Germany Once Was: Historic Cities in the East, by John Dornberg
Due either to the Communist regime’s ideological obstinacy or the inefficiency of its economy, widespread erosive environmental pollution and tragic neglect took place that is now being repaired with extensive and costly efforts of architectural conservation, renovation, and restoration.
It is also where Turnvater Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the “father of gymnastics,” settled in 1825 after his release from five years in a Prussian prison and lived until his death in 1852.
Thuringia, absent from the geopolitical map for most of its 1,300 years of recorded history, was reestablished in October 1990 as one of the five new eastern German states, and bills itself as “The Green Heart of Germany.” No question about that.
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 Anne THROCKMORTON - Ludwig IV of THURINGIA , Landgrave of Thuringia
\-Cacilie of SANGERHAUSEN /-Ludwig I of THURINGIA, Landgrave of Thuringia
/-Ludwig I of THURINGIA, Landgrave of Thuringia /-Ludwig II of THURINGIA, Landgrave of Thuringia
\-Hedwig of GUDENSBERG /-Hermann I of THURINGIA, Landgrave of Thuringia
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 elizabeth
At the age of fourteen, Elizabeth married the landgrave of Thuringia, Ludwig IV.
Ludwig was very supportive of his wife's religious conviction; he didn't even mind when she awoke in the middle of the night to say prayers.
In 1227, Ludwig joined the crusaders in Apulia, and he never returned as he was killed by the plague in Otranto.
www.haverford.edu /engl/engl301/elizahungary/elizabeth.htm   (834 words)

  
 Elizabeth of Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At the age of four she was sent for education to the court of the Landgrave of Thuringia, to whose infant son she was betrothed.
Ludwig was far distant; and the leper being far gone in his foul disease and all other places filled, Elizabeth carried him in her arms and laid him in Ludwig's own bed.
When Sophie discovered this she was greatly enraged and dispatched a messenger for Ludwig; and upon his arrival at the castle at midnight, she conveyed him to his bed room, saying as they went: "A pretty wife thou hast.
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 Elisabeth of Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As an infant she was betrothed to a son of Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia, and was raised with his family.
When her betrothed died in 1216, she became engaged to his brother, Ludwig IV of Thuringia, and they were married in 1221.
The marriage appears to have been happy: Ludwig was not upset by the distribution of his wealth but rather believed that his wife's charitable efforts using his money enhanced his chances of eternal reward.
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 St Elizabeth Hospice Our history   (Site not responding. Last check: )
She was married at the age of 14 to the Landgrave of Thuringia, Ludwig IV.
The marriage had been arranged for political reasons, but it was also a love match, and the couple lived in great content with one another for six years; their home was at the Wartburg castle, near Eisenach, and they had three children.
Then, in 1227, Ludwig went to join the crusaders assembling in Apulia, and died suddenly at Otranto (in parts of Germany he is popularly called St Ludwig).
www.stelizabethhospice.org.uk /Ourhistory.asp?Page=info   (497 words)

  
 St Elizabeth of Hungary - Patroness of the Secular Franciscan Order   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ludwig then, at 21, became Ludwig IV Landgrave of Thuringia.
Germany's Emperor Frederick II often sent Ludwig to deal with affairs of the emperor and the empire.
While Ludwig was away from Thuringia, Elizabeth was in charge.
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 hungary
During the reign of Andrew's successor Bela IV (1206-70), Hungary was overrun by the Mongols.
When the regency of Thuringia was restored to her, she accepted the inheritance of the landgraviate for her son but relinquished her own power as regent.
Elizabeth was the daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary, and at the age of fourteen married the landgrave of Thuringia Ludwig IV.
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 PATRONESS OF THE SECULAR FRANCISCAN ORDER   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elizabeth, daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary, a vivacious girl, was given in marriage at fourteen years of age to Count Louis IV of Thuringia, in Germany.
She was a rich and powerful Lady, the mother of three boys, very much given to prayer and to works of charity for the poor, the sick and those dying of the plague.
It was not her leaving but her entering the world, her love for Christ and for her fellow-man that made this Hungarian daughter of a king, born in 1207, Countess of Thuringia and saint, become one of the most significant women of the German Middle Ages, whose popularity has endured to the present day.
www.franciscans.org.au /sfo/sfo3/11hungary.htm   (655 words)

  
 Ludwig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ludwig I of Bavaria, king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states
Ludwig III of Bavaria, the last King of Bavaria from 1913 to 1918
Ludwig von Koopa, one of the 8 koopalings, and is based on Beethoven.
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As a prelude to an account of the House of Wettin, an account of this family is necessary, since Thuringia served as the base of the Wettins' later prosperity.
Thuringia was originally a small area between Saxony and Franconia with the large Thuringian forest along its southern border.
At the end of the 11th century Ludwig with the beard began accumulating various fiefs in the province, and his grandson was named Landgrave of Thuringia.
worldroots.com /brigitte/theroff/thurngia.txt   (163 words)

  
 Freistaat Thüringen - regional
It's still quite evident today that, up until 1919, Thuringia was made up of seven different principalities and a Prussian administrative district.
That Jutta von Schwaben, wife of the Thuringian Landgrave Ludwig II, known as the Iron Count, was a half-sister of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa, and that it was she who presided over the building of Runneburg Castle in Weissensee (County Sömmerda) in 1168 (featuring hot-air heating!)?
That the seven-arched Werra Bridge near Creutzburg, built at the behest of Landgrave Ludwig IV in 1223, is the oldest Romanesque stone bridge north of the Main River?
www.thueringen.de /en/regional   (360 words)

  
 Believing Thomas -November 2003
In 1226, while Ludwig was in Italy assisting Emperor Frederick II at the Diet at Cremona, disasters began to strike.
But although Ludwig supported her actions upon his return, the rest of the family was not so happy about her largesse.
Ludwig became a casualty of the pestilence September 11, 1227.
www.sfcsa.org /church/bt_2003_11.htm   (791 words)

  
 RULERS OF GERMANY (DEUTSCHLAND)
  With the death of Konrad IV in 1254, the hereditary principle was discarded in favor of election.
Between 1257 and 1272, the throne was disputed between Alfonso X of Castile and Richard of Cornwall.
Ludwig IV (V) Son of Ludwig II; in Upper Bavaria; all Bavaria 1340; mortally wounded in battle
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 Saint Elizabeth of Hungary - 1
Hermann I, Landgrave or Count of Thuringia, which is a region in eastern Germany, was patron of the arts and one of the richest and most influential rulers in all Europe at the beginning of the 13th Century.
Under the tutelage of Ludwig's mother Sophia, Elizabeth and her companions studied German, French, and Latin, the history of the realm, music, literature, and embroidery as well the care of linens, tapestries and wardrobes.
It was providential that Ludwig took his training so seriously, since he was called to rule at an early age, due to the death of his father in 1217.
www.gesuiti.it /moscati/English2/En_ElisUngheria.html   (1976 words)

  
 Body Theology - St. Elizabeth of Hungary
At age 14, she married the 21-year-old Ludwig IV, of Thuringia (Germany).
Ludwig died on one of his military campaigns, succumbing to illness not war wounds.
It is said that he treated Elizabeth with all the severity of his nature, for which he had a considerable reputation, but through this led her to new levels of sanctity and charity; after her death he was very active in her canonization.
www.itmonline.org /bodytheology/stelizabeth.htm   (1111 words)

  
 St. Elizabeth of Hungary - Catholic Community Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
She was raised in the court, and at the age of 14, she married Ludwig IV of Thuringia.
The marriage was a happy one and Elizabeth bore three children in the six years of marriage before Ludwig was called to the Crusades.
Ludwig was died from illness while on the Crusade, and Elizabeth was left alone, stting that "The world with all its joys is now dead to me."
www.catholic-forum.com /themes/st_elizabeth_hung.html   (229 words)

  
 Ludwig | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Ludwig I of Bavaria, king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states
Ludwig II of Bavaria, king of Bavaria from 1864 until his death
Ludwig III of Bavaria, the last King of Bavaria from 1913 to 1918
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 thePeerage.com - Andras III Arpád, King of Hungary and others
She married Ludwig IV von Thuringia, Landgrave of Thuringia.
Ludwig IV von Thuringia, Landgrave of Thuringia b.
     Ludwig IV von Thuringia, Landgrave of Thuringia was born in 1200.
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 September 11: Ludwig of Thuringia
Ludwig, Landgrave (Count) of Thuringia (in Hungary) listened with amusement to his darling wife Elizabeth.
Ludwig (or Louis) was especially concerned for justice.
Ludwig almost lost his anger, but then he saw in the leper the form of Christ.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 17
Her husband Count Ludwig IV of Thuringia is also popularly esteemed a saint but died at age 27.
At the age of four she was sent 350 miles from home to Wartburg Castle near Eisenach, Germany, as the betrothed of the 11-year-old Count Ludwig IV of Thuringia and Hesse.
Ludwig's family and their peers began to criticize the young princess for associating with the common folk, but she bore their insults patiently without ever replying in anger, probably because Ludwig supported her in this work.
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 Ludwig IV of Thuringia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1220 Louis was married at age 20 to 13-year-old Elisabeth of Hungary at the Wartburg, and they soon had two children, Hermann II and Sophie of Thuringia.
In 1227, Louis was inspired to go on Crusade by the tales of his uncle, who had been to the Levant with the Holy Roman Emperor.
Sophie of Thuringia (30 March 1224 – 29 May 1275).
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 elizabeth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1211, when Elizabeth was four years old, it was arranged that she would marry Hermann, the eldest son of Landgrave (Count) Hermann I of Thuringia, and Elizabeth was sent to Eisenach to live at the Wartburg Castle and be raised with little Hermann.
Elizabeth married Ludwig IV in 1221, when she was fourteen.
In 1227 Ludwig was killed on a mission to Palestine, just before Elizabeth gave birth to their third child.
www2.carthage.edu /~rom/reftrip/jb/elizabeth.html   (289 words)

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