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William II is also called ''William the Middle'' to distinguish him from his elder brother '' William I the Elder'', and his cousin '' William III , the Younger''. William's parents were Louis II The Frank (1438-1471) and Mechthild, daughter of Count Louis II Of Württemberg . William II became Landgrave of Lower Hesse in 1493, after his brother William I resigned. In 1497 William II married Jolanta, daughter of Duke Frederick VI of Lorraine, but as she died in 1500 the marriage produced no heir. In the same year, William got married a second time, to Anna Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1485-1525), who bore him four children:
In 1500 William II reunited the Landgraviate of Hesse after the death of his cousin William III , Landgrave of Upper Hesse. In 1503 Emperor Maximilian I commissioned William with the executing the ban on the Elector Philip of the Palatinate. EXTERNAL LINKS |