Louis the Junker

Louis the Junker ( * 1305, † February 2, 1345 ) was the third son of Count Otto I of Hesse and his wife Adelheid of Ravens Mountain, daughter of Otto III. Ravens mountain.

Ludwig received after the accession to power of his brother Henry II in 1328, the Grebe stone castle with a corresponding land ownership as Paragium. Pope John XXII. had him in 1326 when he Landgraf Otto I with his wife and large entourage in Avignon paid his respects, promised an ecclesiastical benefice, but Louis did not keep the promised celibacy, renounced the ecclesiastical career, summoned to his rule Grebestein, and married on October 15, 1340 Elisabeth ( also Elise ), daughter of Count Simon II of Sponheim and widow of the late 1336 Swabian Count Rudolf I von Hohenberg. They had three children:

• Otto ( * 1341, † 1357 ), was intended for the clergy, was educated at Magdeburg, where he was canon and should be succeeding his uncle Otto archbishop. He died young, allegedly by one led by Abbot Henry VII of the monastery of Fulda poison attack.
• Hermann II of Hesse, " the scholar " ( * ca 1342, † 1413 ), succeeded his uncle Henry II as Landgrave.
• Agnes ( * ca 1344, † December 25, 1394 ) was abbess of the Cistercian Monastery of Saint Catherine in Eisenach, where she also died.

Ludwig died in 1345th His son Hermann was determined in 1367 by Landgrave Henry II, after the death of his son Otto the contactor in the previous year, co-regent and successor.