Herman III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde ( – 1283) was a member of the Weimar-Orlamünde branch of the

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Life

Herman III "the Elder", was a son of Herman II (d. 1247) and his wife, Beatrix of Andechs-Merania (d. 1265). Hermann and his brother

Otto III Otto III (June/July 980 – 23 January 1002) was the Holy Roman emperor and King of Italy from 996 until his death in 1002. A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto III was the only son of Emperor Otto II and his wife Theophanu. Otto III was c ...

jointly inherited the Franconian possessions of their maternal uncle

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. They resided at the

Plassenburg Plassenburg is a castle in the city of Kulmbach in Bavaria. It is one of the most impressive castles in Germany and a symbol of the city. It was first mentioned in 1135. The Plassenberg family were Ministerialis, ministerial of the counts of And ...

. In 1278, Hermann and Otto divided their inheritance. Otto III took the County of Weimar and the Plassenburg; Hermann III took the County of Orlamünde. Hermann III died of the plague in 1283.

Marriage and issue

His wife, whose name is unknown, a Lady from the House of Candia-Merania, died after 21 July 1279. They had four children: # Elisabeth "the Elder" (d. before 24 March 1333), married: ## Hertmann I of Lobdeburg-Arnshaugk (d. 20 February 1289) ##

Albert II, Margrave of Meissen Albert II, the Degenerate (de: ''Albrecht II der Entartete'') (1240 – 20 November 1314) was a Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringia and Count Palatine of Saxony. He was a member of the House of Wettin. He was the eldest son of Henry III, ...

(d. 20 November 1315) # Herman V (before 1287 – after 1312) # Henry III (d. after 26 March 1354), succeeded his father as Count of Orlamünde, married Irmgard of Schwarzburg (d. 13 July 1354) # Elisabeth "the Younger" (d. 17 March 1319), a nun at the

Weißenfels Weißenfels (; often written in English as Weissenfels) is the largest town of the Burgenlandkreis district, in southern Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. It is situated on the river Saale, approximately south of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle. His ...

monastery

References

* Hermann Grote: ''Stammtafeln'', Leipzig, 1877, p. 221 * Detlev Schwennicke: ''

Europäische Stammtafeln ''Europäische Stammtafeln'' - German for ''European Family Trees'' - is a series of twenty-nine books which contain sets of genealogical tables of the most influential families of Medieval European history. It is a standard reference work for t ...

'', New edition, vol. I.2, Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt, 1999, table 185 House of Ascania Counts of Weimar-Orlamünde 1230s births 1283 deaths 13th-century German nobility {{Germany-noble-stub