Dedo III (Lausitz)

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Dedos relief on his tomb

Margrave Dedo III. , called the Feiste or also the Fette (* before February 27, 1142 ; † August 16, 1190 ) was, as Dedo V , Count of Wettin , from 1144 lord of Groitzsch Castle , from 1156/57 Count von Groitzsch and lord von Rochlitz and from 1185/86 Margrave of Lusatia .

Life

Dedo was born as the son of Margrave Konrad von Meißen and Luitgard, nee. von Elchingen († 1145) born. As heir to the Counts of Groitzsch, he exercised rulership rights in the county of Groitzsch since 1144 and, as the younger son of Margrave Konrad and the adoptive son of his aunt Bertha, the heiress of Groitzsch, he received rulership of Rochlitz with the bailiwick of the bishopric when the country was divided in 1156 Naumburg .

Dedo took part in numerous military trips and court days of the Emperor Friedrich Barbarossas to Italy. Before Pope Alexander III. In 1177 he conjured the peace of Venice as a witness for the emperor, which ended the schism . In the Meissen succession dispute of 1189, he and his son Konrad sided with Albrecht the Proud .

Dedo often stayed in Rochlitz and from here, like his brothers Otto and Dietrich , pursued an intensive clearing and settlement policy. Like those in Altzelle and Dobrilugk , he founded a new spiritual institution in the form of an Augustinian canon monastery in Zschillen (1168) (now Wechselburg ) as a burial place for his branch of the family, the so-called Dedonids. There he and his wife Mechthild and his politically important sons, Count Dietrich von Groitzsch and Margrave Konrad von der Ostmark / Lausitz, were also buried. Politically, Dedo worked closely with his relative, Archbishop Wichmann of Magdeburg. They stayed together in Prague in the summer of 1171 to negotiate with the Bohemian King Vladislav II. Together they fought against Duke Henry the Lion . In 1187 he appeared before the emperor as an advocate for Bishop Heinrich of Prague in his legal dispute with Duke Friedrich of Bohemia .

After the death of his brother Dietrich, who called himself “Margrave of Ostmark / Lausitz” in 1185, Dedo received the margraviate of the same name from Emperor Friedrich I as a fief against payment of 4,000 marks.

The tomb of Dedos in the basilica of the Wechselburg monastery, on his right side his wife Mechthild

Dedo died on August 16, 1190 as a result of an unsuccessful operation in which he opted to participate in the Rome campaign and the campaign against the Kingdom of Sicily with King Henry VI. Had fat cut out of the body .

progeny

Dedo was married to Mechthilde von Heinsberg († January 20, 1190) and had six children from this marriage:

  • Dietrich (* before September 13, 1159; † June 13, 1207), Count of Sommerschenburg and Groitzsch and then provost of Magdeburg
  • Philipp (* before September 13, 1159), provost of Xanten (1182–1190)
  • Konrad II. (* Around 1160; † May 6, 1210), Margrave of Lusatia
  • Heinrich († 1174)
  • Goswin († 1174)
  • Agnes (* around 1160/65; † March 24/26, 1195), married to Berthold IV. Von Andechs-Meranien

Dedo was the grandfather of St. Hedwig von Andechs through his daughter Agnes , and also through the sister of St. Hedwig, Gertrud von Andechs , great-grandfather of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia .

Web links

Commons : Dedi III of Lusatia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Heinrich Theodor Flathe :  Dedo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 17.
  • Michael Lindner: Dietrich, Dedo and Konrad von Landsberg - Margraves of the Ostmark (1156–1210). A political and lordly sketch from the time of the high medieval country development. In: Stefan Auert-Watzik, Henning Mertens (ed.): Peripheries of Saxon history. Central Germany, Seeburg and Landsberg as dominion and cultural areas of the Ekkehardines and Wettins 743-1347 (= contributions to the Landsberg regional history. 1). Druck-Zuck, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-940744-43-2 , pp. 267-290.
  • Michael Lindner: Dedo V. . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

swell

  1. ↑ Jan Keupp: The table of glory - table joys in the Middle Ages . In: Kitchen - Cooking - Nutrition (=  communications of the German Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times . No. 19 ). 2007, ISSN  1619-1439 , pp. 51–62, here: p. 51 ( PDF [accessed February 25, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae
predecessor Office successor
Dietrich II. Margrave of Lausitz
1185–1190 		Konrad II.
personal data
SURNAME Dedo III
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dedo V. (as Count von Wettin); Dedo the Feiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Margrave of the Margraviate of Landsberg and Niederlausitz
DATE OF BIRTH around 1121
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1190