Ekkehard II (Meissen)

Uta and Ekkehard in Naumburg Cathedral

Ekkehard (* around 985; † January 24, 1046 ) from the noble family of Ekkehardines was a count in Gau Chutizi and in Burgward Teuchern . He was a son of Margrave Ekkehard I and Suanehild, who came from the Billunger family. He was from 1034, as Ekkehard I , Margrave of Lusatia and from 1038, as Ekkehard II , Margrave of Meissen .

Life

The influence of the margrave was so strong through the politically and militarily strategically important area that the Ekkehardines became the closest advisers to the emperors and princes.

He was married to Uta von Ballenstedt . The marriage remained childless. Ekkehard and his wife Uta were among the 12 donors of Naumburg Cathedral .

The Ekkehardine dynasty ended with Ekkehard. At the request of Emperor Konrad II, he and his brother Hermann moved the Zeitz diocese to Naumburg and bequeathed a considerable part of their estate to the collegiate church of St. Cyriakus in Gernrode in Uta's home in Anhalt.

In association with Archbishop Bardo of Mainz , Ekkehard led the Thuringian army in 1040, which was the campaign of King Henry III from the north . against the Duchy of Bohemia should support. He advanced victoriously over the Eger, but was forced to turn back due to the misfortune of the royal army (defeat in the First Battle of Chlumec ). In the following year, duke Břetislav I was forced to submit to submission by the union of the two armies in front of Prague . Heinrich III called it “Fidelissimum fidelem nostrum”. in a document from 1041.

literature

• Heinrich Theodor Flathe :  Ekkehard II. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 790.
• Caspar Sagittarius : Historia bipartita Eccardi II. Marchionis Misniae. Jena 1683 ( digitized version of the 1718 edition ).
• Walter Schlesinger :  Ekkehard II. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 431 ( digitized version ).
• Gerhard Straehle: The Naumburg Stifter Cycle. Eleven donors and the slain in the west choir (synodal choir) of Naumburg Cathedral. Langewiesche Nachf. Köster, Königstein im Taunus 2012, ISBN 978-3-7845-2960-8 .
• Helga Wäß: The wall sculptures in Naumburg Cathedral. In: Helga Wäß: Form and Perception of Central German Memory Sculpture in the 14th Century. Volume 2: Catalog of selected objects from the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the 15th century. Tenea, Bristol et al. 2006, ISBN 3-86504-159-0 , p. 467 ff., (At the same time: Göttingen, Universität, Dissertation, 2001).

Web links

Commons : Ekkehard II. (Meißen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ekkehard II in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Dietrich I.	Margrave of Lausitz 1034-1046	Dedo I.
Hermann I.	Margrave of Meissen 1038-1046	Wilhelm