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War of the Thuringian Succession
The War of the Thuringian Succession of 1247–1264 followed the death without heirs of Henry Raspe, the last Ludowingian landgrave of Thuringia. Henry the Illustrious, Margrave of Meissen, fought Sophie of Brabant, daughter of Landgrave Louis IV, for the inheritance. The settlement gave Thuringia to the Wettins of Meissen, while Sophie's son Henry I kept the western lands as the new Landgraviate of Hesse.
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