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Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg. Louis the Roman ( German: Ludwig VI der Römer) (7 May 1328 – 17 May 1365) was the eldest son of Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV the Bavarian, by his second wife, Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut, and a member of the House of Wittelsbach.
Having defeated the Habsburgs, the Wittelsbach Emperor Louis IV, an uncle of Henry II, granted Brandenburg to his oldest son, Louis I (the "Brandenburger") in 1323. As a consequence of the murder of Provost Nikolaus von Bernau in 1325, Brandenburg was punished with a papal interdict .
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Frederic-William (1620-1688), the prince-elector of Brandenburg, known as the Great Elector, published and circulated the Edict of Potsdam (the 29 th of October, 1685*) granting French refugees particularly generous conditions to come and settle in his state devastated by wars.
Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg, also known as Louis VI the Roman, was a distinguished figure in the history of the Holy Roman Empire. Born in 1328, he was the firstborn son of Louis IV the Bavarian and Margaret II, Countess of Hainault, and belonged to the House of Wittelsbach.
Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg. Louis the Roman (German: Ludwig VI der Römer) (7 May 1328 – 17 May 1365) was the eldest son of Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV the Bavarian, by his second wife, Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut, and a member of the House of Wittelsbach.
Louis II, Elector of Brandeburg (also Louis VI, Duke of Bavaria) was the eldest son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor and his second wife, Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut.
Louis was Duke of Upper Bavaria as Louis VI (1347–1365) and Margrave of Brandenburg (1351–1365) as Louis II. As of 1356, he also served as Prince-Elector of Brandenburg. Biography. Louis was born in Rome when his parents travelled there for his father's coronation as Holy Roman Emperor, hence his nickname "the Roman".
