Editing Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg

{{Short description|Prince-Elector of Brandenburg from 1356 to 1365}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| consort      = 
| name         = Louis VI
| title        = Duke of [[Upper Bavaria]]
| image        = Ludwigvi.jpg
| coronation   = 
| reign        = 1347 - 1365
| spouse       = Cunigunde of Poland<br>[[Ingeborg of Mecklenburg]]
| issue        = 
| house        = [[House of Wittelsbach]]
| father       = [[Louis IV the Bavarian|Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor]]
| mother       = [[Margaret II, Countess of Hainault|Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut]]
| birth_date   = 7 May 1328
| birth_place  = [[Rome]], Italy
| death_date   = 17 May 1365
| death_place  = [[Berlin]], Germany
| buried       = 
}}
'''Louis the Roman''' ({{Langx|de|Ludwig VI der Römer}}) (7 May 1328 – 17 May 1365) was the eldest son of [[Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV]] by his second wife, [[Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut]], and a member of the [[House of Wittelsbach]]. Louis was Duke of [[Upper Bavaria]] as '''Louis VI''' (1347–1365) and Margrave of [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|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". When his father died in 1347, Louis succeeded him as Duke of Bavaria (as Louis VI) and Count of [[Holland]] and [[County of Hainaut|Hainaut]] together with his five brothers. Louis released [[Holland]] and [[County of Hainaut|Hainaut]] for his brothers [[William V, Count of Hainaut|William I]] and [[Albert of Holland|Albert I]] in 1349, since he expected to acquire the Polish crown by his in 1345 marriage with Cunigunde of Poland, a daughter of [[Casimir III of Poland|Casimir III]] and [[Aldona Ona of Lithuania]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages: The Perception of the 'Other' and the Presence of Mutual Ethnic Stereotypes in Medieval Narrative Sources|author1=Andrzej Pleszczynski|author2= Grischa Vercamer|publisher=Brill|year=2021|ISBN=9789004466555|page=216}}</ref> Later claims against William and Albert were not successful. Hence Louis supported his mother during her war with William.

In December 1351 Louis VI received Brandenburg from his older half-brother [[Louis V the Brandenburger|Louis V of Bavaria]] in exchange for the sole rule of Upper Bavaria. Less experienced than Louis V, he was also challenged by the "[[False Waldemar]]", an impostor who claimed Brandenburg and got support from several cities and Holy Roman Emperor [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles IV]] until the Wittelsbachs came to terms with Charles. Louis also had to abandon claims on fiefdoms in [[Mecklenburg]] and [[Pomerania]]. With the [[Golden Bull of 1356]], Louis secured the [[Prince-elector|electoral dignity]]. In 1358 Louis was absolved from the papal [[excommunication]].

After Cunigunde's death in 1357, Louis married [[Ingeborg of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]. She was a daughter of [[Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg]], and [[Euphemia of Sweden]]. Louis had no children with her, either, thus his younger brother [[Otto V the Bavarian|Otto V]] succeeded him in Brandenburg. The childless dukes Louis and Otto had already promised Charles IV the succession in Brandenburg in 1364 as revenge for a conflict with their brother [[Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria|Stephen II]] over the Bavarian succession after the death of their nephew [[Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol|Meinhard]], the son of Louis V.  Louis the Roman died in [[Berlin]] in 1365.

==References==
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{{s-ttl|title=[[Elector of Brandenburg]]| regent1=[[Otto V, Duke of Bavaria|Otto the Lazy]]|years=1356–1365}} 
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