Eilika (Saxony)

Eilika von Sachsen (* around 1081; † January 16, 1142 ) was Countess von Ballenstedt after her marriage .

Life

She was the younger daughter of the Saxon Duke Magnus Billung of Saxony and of Sophia , daughter of the Hungarian King Béla I. Her older sister was Wulfhild. Since Magnus died without sons, the Saxon duke title went to Lothar von Süpplingenburg . Via the two daughters, the alliodial goods went to their husbands and thus to the Welfen and Ballenstedter (Ascanians). The Mark Transalbingen and the rights associated with the ducal dignity went to Lothar.

Around 1094 she married Count Otto von Ballenstedt from the Ascanian family , who briefly became Duke of Saxony in 1112. From this marriage, the son of Albrecht der Bär emerged, who was also temporarily Duke of Saxony under the Staufer Konrad II and later acquired the Havelland on the right bank of the Elbe, from which the Mark Brandenburg gradually emerged from 1157. He was defeated by the Guelph Heinrich the Proud in the battle for the Duchy of Saxony, whose son Heinrich the Lion was ultimately awarded the dignity of Duke of Saxony by Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa.

Through Eilika the Ascanians got after the extinction of the Billunger in the male line, to part of the Billunger allodial goods. It is not certain which areas it was in detail.

After the death of Emperor Lothar III. When the Saxon succession dispute broke out over the title of Duke of Saxony, she actively supported her son Albrecht from her widow's residence, namely from Bernburgm, which was captured and destroyed by the followers of Henry the Proud.

literature

Helmut Assing : The early Ascanians and their wives. Kulturstiftung Bernburg, Bernburg 2002, ISBN 3-9805532-9-9 , p. 11.
Lutz Partenheimer : Albrecht the Bear. Founder of the Mark Brandenburg and the Principality of Anhalt. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-412-06301-0 , pp. 43–45.

Web links

Literature by and about Eilika von Sachsen in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Eilika von Sachsen German biography

Individual evidence

^ Karl Jordan: Saxony and the German royalty in the high Middle Ages. In: Historical magazine . Volume 210, Heft 3, 1970, pp. 529-559, here p. 548.

personal data
SURNAME	Eilika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eilika of Saxony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Countess von Ballenstedt
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1081
DATE OF DEATH	January 16, 1142

[1] Karl Jordan: Saxony and the German royalty in the high Middle Ages. In: Historical magazine . Volume 210, Heft 3, 1970, pp. 529-559, here p. 548.