Derlingau
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Ostfalen around the year 1000
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The Derlingau (also Darlingau) was a Saxon Gaugrafschaft and part of the Saxon province Ostfalen .
Geographical location
Derlingau was located in what is now Lower Saxony, east of the city of Braunschweig . The Derlingau was separated from the Harzgau by the Great Rift near Oschersleben in the south and extended to the Oker in the west and to the North Thuringia in the east . In the north, the Heilangau and the Wittingau bordered the Derlingau.
Counts in Derlingau
- Brun, son of Count Liudolf in Northern Thuringia, Count im Derlingau 965 ( Brunonen )
- Dietrich von Haldensleben , from 966–985 Count in Derlingau
- Ekbert, Graf, urk. September 14, 1024, probably around 1013 Graf im Derlingau ( Billunger )
- Liudolf († 1038 ), son of Bruns , probably count in Derlingau around 1031
- Bernhard, † before 1069, 1052 Graf in Harzgau and Derlingau as well as in Northern Thuringia , 1043-1062 attested ( Supplinburger )
- Siegfried II. Von Walbeck , † around 1087, Count in Northern Thuringia and Derlingau
literature
- Jürgen Hodemacher : The district of Helmstedt its cities and villages , Elm-Verlag, Cremlingen 1990, ISBN 3-927060-04-6
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