Ernest II, Count of Mansfeld-Vorderort
Ernest II, Count of Mansfeld-Vorderort was a German nobleman from the Mansfeld-Vorderort line of the House of Mansfeld. He was the fifth child and third son of Albert III, Count of Mansfeld, Lord in Mansfeld and Lord in Heldrungen and succeeded him on his death.
His first marriage was in Stolberg in 1500 to Barbara von Querfurt, daughter of Bruno VII, the last lord of Querfurt, and his wife Brigitte zu Stolberg.
Ernest's second marriage was to Dorothea, Countess at Solms-Lich, daughter of Philip, Count of Solms-Lich and his wife Adriana von Hanau-Münzenberg. Two of his children by his second marriage were the military commander Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort and Elisabeth, briefly wife of Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Saxony.
He was buried in the St Andreas Kirche in Eisleben.
