Ekbert II (Meissen)

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Ekbert II of Meißen (* around 1059/1061; † July 3, 1090 in the Selketal , Harz ) from the Brunonen family was Margrave of Meißen and Count of Friesland .

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Henry the Lion's Crypt . Left: Henry the Lion's sarcophagus , right that of his second wife Mathilde Plantagenet . In the background is a sarcophagus in which the remains of Margravine Gertrude the Elder of Braunschweig , Margrave Ekberts II of Meißen and his sister Gertruds the Younger of Braunschweig , great-grandmother of Henry the Lion, are.

Ekbert II was the son of Count Ekbert I of Friesland and Irmgard von Susa . From his father he took over the inheritance of the Brunonian property around Braunschweig , the Frisian counties and the margraviate of Meißen . He married Oda, daughter of Margrave Otto von Weimar-Orlamünde , who inherited the margraviate after the death of her father in 1067. The marriage presumably remained childless. However, there are indications that the later Bishop of Münster Egbert could come from this connection.

Ekbert was involved in the prince opposition to Emperor Henry IV , which is why he awarded the Mark Meissen in 1076 to Vratislav of Bohemia . A brief reconciliation in 1085 was followed by another fight against Emperor Heinrich IV (see also Gleichen Castle ). After the German rival king Hermann von Salm fell near Cochem on September 28, 1088 , Ekbert was one of the leaders of the Saxon opposition. He was ostracized in the same year and murdered on the run in 1090.

Legend has it that Ekbert II was murdered in a mill in Eisenbüttel near Braunschweig by the horsemen of Emperor Heinrich IV. Most historians name a mill near Selke in the Harz Mountains as the place where Ekbert II was slain on July 3, 1090. On the other hand, the Brunswick lawyer and historian Julius Dedekind suspected that the margrave was most likely not murdered either in the mill in Eisenbüttel or in the Selketal, but near Isenbüttel an der Salke, in today's Gifhorn district .

Ekbert II was, together with his father, founder of the Braunschweiger St. Cyriakus monastery , where he was also buried. After the demolition of the St. Cyriakus monastery in 1545, the grave of Ekbert II was transferred to the Braunschweig city area, in the crypt of the collegiate church of St. Blasius .

The margraviate of Meissen inherited the Wettin Heinrich I († 1103), who was married to Ekbert's sister Gertrud the Younger of Braunschweig († 1117). The Brunonian property around Braunschweig came through Gertrud via Emperor Lothar III. ultimately to the Guelphs .

Literary adaptation

In her story " Der Müller von Eisenbüttel ", the writer Benedigte Naubert (1752-1819) describes the story of a miller in whose mill Margrave Ekbert (in the local spelling: "Egbert") died.

literature

Fiction:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kohl : The diocese of Münster. 7: The diocese (= Germania Sacra . NF 37, 1: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. ). 1. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1999, ISBN 3-11-016470-1 , p. 95.
  2. Ludwig Ferdinand SpehrDedekind, Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 15 f.
  3. ^ Max Planck Institute for History (ed.): The German King Palaces. Repertory of the Palatinate, royal courts and other places of residence of kings in the German Empire in the Middle Ages. Volume 4: Uta Reinhardt, Caspar Ehlers , Lutz Fenske: Lower Saxony. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-36512-8 , pp. 141-142.
  4. ^ Max Planck Institute for History (ed.): The German King Palaces. Repertory of the Palatinate, royal courts and other places of residence of kings in the German Empire in the Middle Ages. Volume 4: Uta Reinhardt, Caspar Ehlers, Lutz Fenske: Lower Saxony. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-36512-8 , p. 150.
  5. ^ Benedikt Naubert : New folk tales of the Germans. Volume 3, Weygand, Leipzig 1792, pp. 323-398.
predecessor Office successor
Ekbert I. Margrave of Meissen
1068-1089
Heinrich I.