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King Henry the Fowler, on his 928–29 campaign against the Slavic Glomacze tribes, had a fortress erected on a hill at Meissen (Mišno) on the Elbe river. Later named Albrechtsburg, the castle about 965 became the seat of the Meissen margraves, installed by Emperor Otto I when the vast Marca Geronis (Gero's march) was partitioned into five new margraviates, including Meissen, the Saxon ...
But when Frederick VI chose the western part (Thuringia) instead of Meissen, William III rejected his choice and the Saxon Fratricidal War started. In the end Frederick VI received Meissen and William III received Thuringia. Margaret of Austria: Ernest, Duke of Austria 1416/17 3 June 1431 7 September 1464 husband's death: 12 February 1486
The first Meissen margrave, Wigbert, is mentioned in a 968 charter of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg. That same year, the Meissen fortress also became the see of the newly created Bishopric of Meissen. In 978, the Saxon count Rikdag became the Margrave of Meissen, and incorporated the marches of Merseburg and Zeitz into Meissen.
Pages in category "Margraves of Meissen" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
She died on 26 November 1014, having given him seven children, though he was her second husband, she being the widow of Margrave Thietmar, Margrave of Meissen: Liutgard (d. 1012), married Margrave Werner of the Northern March [1] Herman I, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1038), married Regelinda, [1] daughter of King Bolesław I Chrobry of Poland
Thietmar strengthened the ties with the mighty Billung dynasty by marrying Swanehilde (d. 1014), daughter of Margrave Hermann Billung, acting Duke of Saxony from 961. The couple had one son: Gero II, who in 993 would succeed Thietmar's brother, Odo, as Margrave of the Saxon Eastern March. [citation needed]
From 1210 on the remaining March of Lower Lusatia was held by the Meissen margraves from the Saxon House of Wettin. Upon the death of Margrave Henry III of Meissen in 1288, his lands were divided: while the Meissen territory passed to his eldest son Albert II , the Lusatian lands fell to his grandson Frederick Tuta , son of the late Margrave ...
Wilhelm II, the Rich (23 April 1371 – 13 March 1425) was the second son of Margrave Frederick the Strict of Meissen and Catherine of Henneberg.. Under the Division of Chemnitz of 1382, he received the Osterland and Landsberg jointly with his brothers, Frederick I, Elector of Saxony and George (d. 1402).