William II, Landgrave of Hesse

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William II (29 April 1469 – 11 July 1509) was Landgrave of Lower Hesse from 1493 and Landgrave of Upper Hesse after the death of his cousin, William III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse in 1500. This immediately sparked the War of the Katzenelnbogen Succession, in which William sought to enforce his claim on the County of Katzenelnbogen with military might.

William II is also called "William the Middle" to distinguish him from his elder brother "

William II became Landgrave of Lower Hesse in 1493, after his brother William I resigned.

On 9 November 1497 William II married Yolande, daughter of

• Elisabeth
  (4 March 1502 – 6 December 1557)
• Magdalena (18 July 1503 – September 1504)
• Philip I, (13 November 1504 – 31 March 1567)

In 1500, William II reunited the Landgraviate of Hesse after the death of his cousin William III. In 1503, Emperor Maximilian I commissioned William with executing the ban on Elector Philip of the Palatinate.

Ancestors

External links

• Wikisource: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, "Wilhelm II. (Landgraf von Hessen)"
• Genealogy of William II
• Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of the Hessian noble family". Genealogy.EU.