Brun the elder

Brun the Elder , Herr von Querfurt, was the first owner of the castle Querfurt in Hassegau , in today's Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt , who was officially named in 950 . He was the progenitor of the nobles of Querfurt , from whose ranks several archbishops of Magdeburg emerged and who held the important office of burgrave of Magdeburg from 1134 to 1359 .

Brun's ancestry is not fully understood; but he was probably the son of Count Brun von Arneburg and his wife Frideruna. He had four sons known by name, Brun , the later archbishop and martyr, Gebhard I , who inherited the castle and rule of Querfurt from his father, as well as Dietrich and Wilhelm. Not much is known about his own life. After the death of his son, Archbishop Brun, in 1009 he became a monk and then the third abbot of the St. Michaelis monastery in Lüneburg. He died between 1009 and 1017.

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• Genealogy Middle Ages: Brun the Elder