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Ordulfo, a volte chiamato Ottone, (1022 circa – 28 marzo 1072) fu duca di Sassonia dal 1059 alla morte.
Ordulf (sometimes Otto) (c. 1022 – 28 March 1072) was the duke of Saxony from 1059, when he succeeded his father Bernard II, until his death. He was a member of the Billung family. Reign. Ordulf's entire reign was occupied by wars with the Wends.
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The Saxon stem duchy covered the greater part of present-day Northern Germany, including the modern German states (Länder) of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt up to the Elbe and Saale rivers in the east, the city-states of Bremen and Hamburg, the Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Holstein region (Nordalbingia) of Schleswig-Holstein....
Older stem duchy
According to the Res gestae saxonicae by tenth century chronicler Widukind of Corvey, the Saxons had arrived from Britannia at the coast of Land Hadeln in the Elbe-Weser Triangle, called by the Merovingian rulers of Francia to support the conquest of Thuringian kingdom, a seeming reversal of the English origin myth where Saxon tribes from the region, under the leadership of legendary brothers Hengist and Horsa, invade post-Roman Britannia. (see Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain). The Royal Fr...
Younger stem duchy
Ida of Herzfeld may have been an ancestor of the Saxon count Liudolf (d. 866), who married Oda of Billung and ruled over a large territory along the Leine river in Eastphalia, where he and Bishop Altfrid of Hildesheim founded Gandersheim Abbey in 852. Liudolf became the progenitor of the Saxon ducal, royal and imperial Ottonian dynasty; nevertheless his descendance, especially his affiliation with late Duke Widukind, has not been conclusively established. Subdued only a few decades earlier, t...
House of Billung
1. 936: Upon Henry's death at Memleben, his son Otto I succeeded him. According to Widukind, he was crowned king at Aachen Cathedral, with the other German Dukes Gilbert of Lorraine, Eberhard of Franconia, Arnulf of Bavaria and Herman of Swabia paying homage to him. He appoints Hermann Billung as princeps militiae or "Markgraf" in the Billung March with orders to subdue the Slavic Luticibeyond the Elbe River. 2. 961: Otto I leaves for Italy and his lieutenant margrave Hermann Billungbecomes t...
A number of seceded territories even gained imperial immediacy, while others only changed their liege lord on the occasion. The following list includes states that existed in the territory of the former stem duchy in addition to the two legal successors of the stem duchy, the Ascanian Duchy of Saxony formed in 1296 centered around Wittenberg and La...
È autore di una celebre Vita Christi (iniziata forse nel 1328): pur essendo ritenuta la prima biografia di Gesù, basata sui vangeli e sulle opere dei padri della Chiesa, più che di opera storica si tratta di opera di meditazione, che ebbe una notevole influenza sul sentimento religioso del tempo.
Famiglia sassone, il cui capostipite Hermann (m. Quedlinburg 973) ebbe da Ottone I il ducato di Sassonia. I suoi discendenti fecero tutti una energica politica contro gli Slavi. Ordulf (m. 1072), sposò la figlia di Magnus re di Danimarca, nel 1043 conquistò, insieme col suocero, Jomsburg (od. Wolyń) e batté gli Slavi.
La grande rivolta dei Sassoni o grande rivolta sassone fu una guerra civile svoltasi tra il 1077 e il 1088 tra il re, poi imperatore, Enrico IV e il duca di Svevia e anti-re Rodolfo di Rheinfeld e, dopo la sua morte, da Ermanno di Salm, eletti da dei principi tedeschi dissidenti.
