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Henry III, called Henry the Illustrious (Heinrich der Erlauchte) (c. 1215 – 15 February 1288) from the House of Wettin was Margrave of Meissen and last Margrave of Lusatia (as Henry IV) from 1221 until his death; from 1242 also Landgrave of Thuringia.
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 ...
This is a list of the burgraves of Meissen. The Burgraviate of Meissen was first mentioned in 1068, when King Henry IV installed a burgrave in the imperial castle ( Reichsburg ) of Meissen . The burgraves of Meissen were royal officials appointed to document the king's claims to power.
Meissen, with Albrechtsburg and Cathedral. In 928 and 929, during the final campaign against the Glomacze tribes, Henry the Fowler, East Frankish king since 919, chose a rock above the confluence of the Elbe and Triebisch rivers to erect a new fortress, called Misni Castle after the nearby Meisa stream.
In 929 King Henry I of Germany subdued the Slavic Glomacze tribe at the Siege of Gana and built a fortress within their settlement area, situated on a rock high above the Elbe river. [1] This castle, called Misnia after a nearby creek, became the nucleus of the town and from 965 the residence of the Margraves of Meissen , who in 1423 acquired ...
Henry III, Margrave of Meissen (1215–1288), noble and minnesinger This page was last edited on 28 March 2009, at 19:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Henry's successor Conrad II waged two campaigns, in 1031 and 1032, which reconquered both Lower and Upper Lusatia from Mieszko II of Poland. By the reign of King Henry IV from 1056, Lusatia had been reincorporated into the Holy Roman Empire and it formed one of the four divisions of Upper Saxony along with Meissen, the Ostmark, and Zeitz. These ...
The German king (Henry II), having reached Meissen, ordered Hermann to defend the town against the Poles, while he himself went to Merseburg. [2] Bolesław's son, Mieszko II began the siege and the plundering of the area. Many German defenders surrendered the stronghold at the very beginning and fought in the upper part of the stronghold.