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He was a son of Landgrave Hermann , and Duchess Sophia, daughter of Otto De Wittlesbach , Duke Of Bavaria , ascended to the throne at the age of 16 upon his father's death in 1216 . In 1218 , at age 18, on the Feast of St. Kilian , he was armed as a knight in the Church of St. George in Eisenach . Louis was married at age 20, to Saint Elizabeth Of Hungary , Age 13, Duchess of Thuringia and Hesse , in Anno Domini 1220 in the Court of Wartburg. He set up court in Eisenach , NW of Frankfurt , in Thuringia. He was inspired by the Third Crusade of Richard The Lion- Hearted , some 40 years prior to his embarking on a Crusade, after being inspired by the tales of his Uncle, who had been to the Levant with the Holy Roman Emperor. Louis embarked on a journey to the Holy Land with five counts, Louis de Wartburg, Gunther de Kefernberg, Meinrad de Muhlberg, Henry de Stolberg and Burkhard de Brandenberg. In August of 1227 Louis transversed the mountains between Thuringia and Upper Franconia , through Swabia and Bavaria , crossing the Tyrolian Alps . He caught fever after reaching Brindisi and Otranto . He received Extreme Unction from the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Bishop of Sante Croce. He died on September 11 , 1227 . He wife, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, would also die early some years later, at the age of 24, after establishing the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Eisenach. FAMILY AND CHILDREN He and Elisabeth of Hungary had the following children: # Hermann II, Landgrave Of Thuringia (1222 –1241/42). # Sophie Of Thuringia ( 30 March 1224 – 29 May 1275 ). # Gertrud (1227 – 1297), Abbess at Altenberg near Wetzlar .
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