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| name            = Louis of Ziegenhein
| image           = Titian_-_A_Man_with_a_Quilted_Sleeve_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
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| succession      = [[List of Apostolic Presidents (Merveilles des Morte)|Apostolic President]]
| reign           = 1549-1563
| predecessor     = [[Henry IX, Holy Roman Emperor (Merveilles des Morte)|Henry I]]
| successor       = [[Gabriel I, Apostolic President (Merveilles des Morte)|Gabriel I]]
| coronation      = 29 November 1549 in New Jerusalem
| succession2     = Count of Ziegenhein
| reign2          = 1499-1563
| predecessor2    = Elizabeth
| successor2      = [[Henry II, Apostolic President (Merveilles des Morte)|Henry II]]
| coronation2     = 15 July 1499 in {{W|Ziegenhein}}
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| spouse          = {{Plainlist}}
Maria of Hesse<br/>
Vanessa of Breisgau<br/>
Margaret de la Marck
| issue           = {{Plainlist}}
[[Gabriel I, Apostolic President (Merveilles des Morte)|Gabriel I]]<br/>
[[Henry II, Apostolic President (Merveilles des Morte)|Henry I]]
| house           = [[Family Trees (Merveilles des Morte)#Jenagotha|House of Jenagotha]]
| father          = [[Henry IX, Holy Roman Emperor (Merveilles des Morte)|Henry I]]
| mother          = Elizabeth von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg
| birth_date      = 1 October 1494
| birth_place     = {{W|Weimar}}, {{W|Thuringia}},<br/>[[Holy Roman Empire (Merveilles des Morte)|Kingdom of Germany]]
| death_date      = 15 January 1563
| death_place     = New Jerusalem, [[Rätian Union (Merveilles des Morte)|Rätian Union]],<br/>[[Holy Roman Empire (Merveilles des Morte)|Kingdom of Germany]]
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| religion        = Jungism <small>(1506-)</small><br/>
{{W|Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism}} <small>(-1506)</small>
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'''Louis I''' (1 October 1494 - 15 January 1563), commonly known as '''Louis of Ziegenhein''' was the [[List of Apostolic Presidents (Merveilles des Morte)|Apostolic President]] of the [[Rätian Union (Merveilles des Morte)|Rätian Union]] after the death of his father, [[Henry IX, Holy Roman Emperor (Merveilles des Morte)|Henry IX/I]], in 1549. He was also Count of Ziegenhein, which he inherited through his mother, Countess Elizabeth von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg (1470-1499). 

After the long reign of his father, Louis ascended to the head of the Rätian Union at a time of instability in the [[Holy Roman Empire (Merveilles des Morte)|Holy Roman Empire]], with an imperial civil war breaking out a year later between the supporters of [[Henry X, Holy Roman Emperor (Merveilles des Morte)|Henry X]] of [[Bohemia (Merveilles des Morte)|Bohemia]] and [[Leopold II, Duke of Habsburg (Merveilles des Morte)|Leopold II]] of [[Duchy of Habsburg (Merveilles des Morte)|Habsburg]]. Louis outwardly supported neither side; it was not until the [[War of the Three Henrys (Merveilles des Morte)|War of the Three Henrys]] and the prospect of a future Jungist [[Holy Roman Emperor (Merveilles des Morte)|Holy Roman Emperor]] emerged that Louis supported Jungist-claimant [[Henry the Protector (Merveilles des Morte)|Henry the Protector]] at the behest of fellow president [[Kurt Eisner (Merveilles des Morte)|Kurt Eisner]]. 

Louis was a devoutly religious man and a strong, idealistic adherent of [[Thinwhitedukism (Merveilles des Morte)|Thinwhitedukism]]. He largely had a hands off approach to rule over the union, hoping to embolden its elected officials instead. Louis instead dedicated his time to the architectural building of New Jerusalem, the Union's capital and the center of his theocratic ideology, and toward the strengthening of religious matters. Unlike his father he was far less tolerant of Catholics and religious dissidents, and he promoted the propagation of Jungist teaching through a robust education and publishing industry. He later became at odds politically with the likes of [[Marcus Cranach (Merveilles des Morte)|Marcus Cranach]] as Louis became against foreign Interventionism, even if in the name of spreading Jungist teachings, as he viewed free will and the right to democratically choose one's path as biblically supported. He cited the [[Oldenburg Commune (Merveilles des Morte)|Oldenburg Commune]] as one such failure and likened brutal jingoism to Catholicism. Despite his defense of free will, within his own nation he supported censorship and inquisition. 

Louis was a supporter of polygamous relations as his grandfather was, and he married prominent dynasts from [[Electorate of Saxony (Merveilles des Morte)|Saxony]] and [[Hesse (Merveilles des Morte)|Hesse]] to strengthen ties with foreign Jungist nations. Louis died in 1563 and was succeeded by his son [[Gabriel I, Apostolic President (Merveilles des Morte)|Gabriel I]] as Apostolic President, while the County of Ziegenhein passed to his second eldest son [[Henry II, Apostolic President (Merveilles des Morte)|Henry I]], who later succeeded Gabriel. 

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