Brunones

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The Brunons were a Saxon noble family from the 10th to 11th centuries.

The name Brunonen is derived from the supposed progenitor Brun (o) von Sachsen († 880). The family owned properties in Ostfalen and Friesland . In the year 942 a Count Liudolf is attested in the Braunschweig area.

There were close family ties to the Salian royal family. After the death of Emperor Otto III, Count Brun I. 1002 unsuccessfully as a candidate for the royal throne. In 1067 Ekbert I was enfeoffed by King Heinrich IV with the margraviate of Meissen. His son Ekbert II opposed Emperor Heinrich IV and lost his fiefs in Meissen and the Frisian counties through the verdict of a prince's court. With him, the Brunons in the male line died out in 1090. Ekbert's second sister Gertrud the Younger from Braunschweig was married to Heinrich the Fat von Northeim for the second time . Their daughter Richenza († 1141) married Lothar von Süpplingenburg , Duke of Saxony and later Emperor. Their daughter Gertrud von Sachsen († 1143) was married to Duke Heinrich the Proud of Saxony and Bavaria, which means that the property in Brunswick came to the Guelphs for centuries .

Important brunons

Tribe list

  1. Brun I of Braunschweig († 1015/16) (Count in Saxony) ⚭ Gisela von Schwaben (* around 990; † February 15, 1043 in Goslar ) (⚭ 1016/17 Emperor Konrad II. († 1039 ))
    1. Liudolf († April 23, 1038 ) ⚭ Gertrud the Elder of Braunschweig († 1077 )
      1. Brun II (* around 1024 - † June 26, 1057 ), Count of Friesland
      2. Ekbert I. († 1068 ) ⚭ Irmgard, daughter of Odalrich-Maginfred Margrave of Turin ( Arduine )
        1. Ekbert II. († 1090 ) ⚭ Oda of Orlamünde
        2. Gertrud the Younger of Braunschweig († 1117 ) ⚭ I Dietrich von Katlenburg († 1085 ); II Heinrich the Fette of Northeim († 1101 ); III Heinrich I of Meissen († 1103 )
      3. Mathilde , † 1044, married Heinrich I in 1043 , † 1060, 1031 King of France ( Capetian )

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