Dedo I. (Lausitz)

Margrave Dedo (* around 1010 - † October 1075 ) was as Dedo II. Count of Wettin , from 1034 Count at Eilenburg Castle , Count in the Gauen Siusili , Serimunt and Nizizi , from 1046 as Dedo I. Margrave of the Mark Lausitz and Count im southern Schwabengau , from the aristocratic Wettin family . He was a son of Margrave Dietrich II./I. and brother of Bishop Friedrich I. von Münster and Count Thimo von Wettin .

Life

Dedo was according to the Altaich annals from 1046 by Emperor Heinrich III. enfeoffed with two margraves: Lausitz and Thuringia . In the further course of time they formed a unit, but in the middle of the 11th century there were still two different areas of power or administration.

1069, ie before the 1073 starting Saxon nobility revolt, there was an armed clash between the Salic King Henry IV. And Mark Graf Dedo I., which concerned an attempt Dedos, including Royal to bring goods to forcibly se . In addition, the conflict with the king can also be linked to the tensions between the East Saxon nobles on the one hand and the Salian on the other, as indicated in the Altaich annals, because they felt that their rights were restricted. As a reaction to the Wettiner's actions, Heinrich IV gathered an army and led it through Thuringia and Saxony . Dedo got help in this conflict from the husband of his stepdaughter Adelheid , Adalbert II von Ballenstedt . After conquering the two castles Burgscheidungen and Beichlingen , in which Dedo had placed teams, the margrave saw the hopelessness of his situation and surrendered. The king had him captured and he had to surrender extensive possessions. In addition, he was deposed and his son Dedo II was appointed Margrave of Lusatia. After the assassination of Dedo II in the same year, Henry IV and Dedo I reconciled and he got the office of margrave back.

In 1073 the princes of East Saxony rose against Henry IV; Dedo was one of them. On the basis of the experience of 1069, however, he was one of the more moderate princes and tried in Goslar to soften the anger of the princes present against Heinrich IV. Even before the peace concluded in February 1074, Dedo seems to have changed sides, because when the fighting started again afterwards, he stayed out of it. In 1075 he took care of the protection of the Russian Grand Duke Isjaslav I , who was in Saxony, on behalf of the king . Nevertheless, he had to hold his son, who later became Margrave Heinrich I, hostage.

Dedo died in 1075 after a long illness.

family

Dedo was married to Oda, the widow of Wilhelm III. von Weimar and daughter of Thietmar , who was Margrave of Lusatia from 1015 to 1030.

Children:

1. Dedo III († 1069), Margrave of Lusatia (Dedo II.)
2. Adelheid, married to Ernst , Margrave of Austria
3. Agnes, married to a Saxon count named Friedrich

In 1068 he married Adela, a granddaughter of Lambert I von Löwen, in his second marriage . She was the widow of Margrave Otto I of Meissen . This was a son of Dedo's first wife Oda from her first marriage to Wilhelm III. from Weimar.

Children:

1. Heinrich I († 1103), Margrave of Meißen and Lausitz, married to Gertrud the Younger of Braunschweig , daughter of Margrave Ekbert I of Meißen
2. Konrad, allegedly slain by the Wende

literature

• Stefan Pätzold : The early Wettins. Noble family and house tradition until 1221 (= history and politics in Saxony. Vol. 6). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1997, ISBN 3-412-08697-5 (At the same time: Göttingen, Universität, Dissertation, 1996).

Web link

• Genealogy Middle Ages: Dedi II of Wettin

predecessor	Office	successor
Ekkehard II	Margrave of Lausitz 1046-1069	Dedo II
Dedo II	Margrave of Lusatia 1069-1075	Vratislaw of Bohemia