turn as landgrave. His oldest son Louis, who succeeded him, was the husband of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Hermann died at Gotha in 1217 and was buried at Reinhardsbrunn. Hermann was fond of the society of men of letters, and Walther von der Vogelweide and other Minnesingers were welcomed to his castle, the Wartburg. In this connection he figures in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg. Issue With Sophia of Sommerschenburg: Jutta (1184–1235), married twice: in 1194 to Margrave Theodoric I of Meissen (1161–1221) in 1223 to Count Poppo VII of Henneberg (d. 1245) Hedwig, married in 1211 to Count Albert II of Weimar-Orlamünde With Sophia of Wittelsbach: Irmgard (b. 1197), married in 1211 to Count Henry I of Anhalt Herman (b. 1202–1216) Louis IV (1200–1227) Henry Raspe (1204–1247) Conrad (1206–1247), Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Agnes, married twice: in 1225 to Henry "the Profane" of Babenberg (1208–1228), a son of Duke Leopold VI of Austria. They had a daughter, Gertrude of Austria who claimed the inheritance of the House of Babenberg. in 1229 to Duke Albert I of Saxony ( – 1261) Ancestry References Sources E. Winkelmann, Philipp von Schwaben und Otto IV. von Braunschweig (Leipzig, 1873–1878) F. Wachter, Thüringische and obersächsische Geschichte (Leipzig, 1826) Rulers of Thuringia Landgraves of Thuringia Ludovingians Year of birth uncertain 1217 deaths Christians of the Crusade of 1197