Wilhelm (Nordmark)

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Wilhelm (* before 1044; † September 10, 1056 near Prizlava on the Elbe) was Count of Haldensleben and Margrave of the Nordmark .

Life

Wilhelm was a descendant of Count Bernhard II von Haldensleben , who was also Margrave of the Nordmark.

Wilhelm was only mentioned at the battle of Pritzlawa Castle on the Elbe in 1056, where he was led by Emperor Heinrich III. had been sent. Count Dietrich von Katlenburg and Bernhard von Domersleben fought with him . The Saxon army was defeated by the Lutizen and Wilhelm, like many others, was killed.

His half-brother Otto tried to succeed him as Margrave, but died in 1057. Since there were no other male relatives, Heinrich III enfeoffed. Count Lothar Udo I from the House of Stade with the Nordmark.

family

It is not known whether Wilhelm was married. He had no offspring and with him the house of the Counts of Haldensleben died out in the male line.

literature

  • Johannes Schultze : The Prignitz. From the story of a Brandenburg landscape. (= Central German Research. Volume 8.) Böhlau, Cologne, Graz 1956. Page 34.
  • Siegfried Lüpke: The margraves of the Saxon East Brands in the time from Gero to the beginning of the investiture dispute (940-1075). Halle, 1937. p. 18.

Individual evidence

  1. Representations of the battle at Annalista Saxo ( 1056 ) Lambert von Hersfeld and others.