Henry II, Landgrave of Hesse

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Henry II
Landgrave of Hesse
Born	1299
Died	3 June 1376
Noble family	House of Hesse
Spouse(s)	Elisabeth of Thuringia
Issue	Otto the Younger Adelheid Elisabeth Jutta Margarethe
Father	Otto I, Landgrave of Hesse
Mother	Adelheid of Ravensberg

Henry II of Hesse (German: Heinrich; c. 1299 – 3 June 1376), called "the Iron", was Landgrave of Hesse from 1328–1376.

Henry was the son of Otto I, Landgrave of Hesse and Adelheid of Ravensburg. With his wife Elisabeth of Thuringia, daughter of Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen, he had five children:

• Otto the Younger (1322c-1366)
• Adelheid (1323/24-1370) later wife of Casimir III of Poland
• Elisabeth [1329c-1390] later wife of Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen
• Jutta/Judith; died in infancy
• Margarethe, a nun in Haidau monastery

When Henry's son Otto died in 1366, his nephew Hermann was named co-regent. This caused fighting to break out with Otto of Brunswick. To defray the costs of the conflict with Brunswick, Henry levied a tax on all imported goods.