Theodoric II Wettin (Margrave) of LUSATIA

Theodoric (German: Dietrich; c. 990 - 19 November 1034) was Margrave of Lusatia from 1032 to 1034, the first of the Wettin dynasty. Life He was the only son of Count Dedo I of Wettin (c. 960 - 1009) and his wife Thietburga, a daughter of Count Dietrich of Haldensleben, the first margrave of the Northern March.[1] Theodoric thereby was a grandson of the Wettin progenitor Theodoric I. At Christmas 1009, after his father was killed in a fierce struggle with Margrave Werner of the Northern March, Theodoric was vested with the County of Wettin in the Saxon Hassegau (ruling as Theodoric II) by King Henry II of Germany at Pöhlde. From 1015, he also appeared as a and count in the neighbouring Schwabengau. Upon the death of his uncle Frederick I, who had died without male issue in 1017, he inherited Eilenburg and Brehna. In 1018, Theodoric and his brother-in-law, Margrave Herman I of Meissen acted as witnesses when the Peace of Bautzen was concluded between Emperor Henry II and the Polish ruler Bolesław I the Brave, ending a lengthy German-Polish War. From 1029, Emperor Conrad II again waged war against Poland. Bolesław's son and successor Mieszko II lost Lusatia and finally had to renounce his claims in the 1033 Treaty of Merseburg. According to the Annalista Saxo chronicles, Theodoric played a key role in the emperor's campaign and in turn could succeed the Lusatian margrave Odo II in 1032. However, he earned the hatred of his brother-in-law Eckard II of Meissen and was killed by his henchmen, whereafter Eckard became his successor in Lusatia. Theodoric's possessions were divided among his sons. As Count of Eilenburg, he was succeeded by his eldest son Dedi,[2] who also became Margrave of Lusatia upon the death of Margrave Eckard II of Meissen in 1046. Marriage and issue Dietrich II of Wettin married Mathilda, daughter of Margrave Eckard I of Meissen.[3] They had seven children: Dedi (ca. 1010-1075) the eldest son, who eventually became his successor as Margrave of Lusatia. Frederick (ca. 1020-1084), elected Bishop of Münster in 1063. Thimo (ca. 1034- ca. 1101), count of Wettin. Gero (ca. 1020-1089), count of Brehna. Konrad (died 1040), count of Camburg. Rikdag Ida (Hidda), married to Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia. Literature Detlev Schwennicke. Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge ("European Family Trees: Family Trees for the History of European States, New Series"), Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt Stefan Pätzold. Die frühen Wettiner - Adelsfamilie und Hausüberlieferung bis 1221. Köln, Weimar, Wien, 1997. ISBN 3-412-08697-5 References Jump up ^ Dietrich II., genealogie-mittelalter Jump up ^ Dedi II., genealogie-mittelalter Jump up ^ German wikipedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Wettins were a major European dynasty, genealogically traceable to the start of the 10th century AD. Its earliest known ancestors were active in pushing Germany's frontier eastward into formerly Slav territory; and by the end of the 1080s two of their descendants, brothers, held not only the countship of Wettin (on a crossing of the Saale River downstream from Halle), but also, farther east, the margravate of Meissen (on the Elbe River). The Wettins of Meissen vastly enlarged their line's territory by becoming landgraves of Thuringia in 1264 and electors of Saxony in 1423. Of major importance was the division of the Wettin dynasty into Ernestine and Albertine lines in 1485. The Albertines secured the electorate of Saxony from the Ernestines in 1547. The Ernestines retained thereafter some less important possessions in Thuringia which they constantly subdivided between themselves. Their possessions became known as the Saxon duchies and included Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Coburg, Saxe-Eisenach, Saxe-Altenburg, and Saxe-Gotha, among others. In the 19th and 20th centuries the Ernestine Wettins of the Saxe-Coburg branch rose to unprecedented heights. One became king of the Belgians as Leopold I in 1831, and another, Albert, married the British queen Victoria in 1840 and was the ancestor of five successive British sovereigns (though the name Wettin was rarely cited in England, and that of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was officially changed, for the British, to the house of Windsor in 1917). http://en.wikipedia.org

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