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William I, the one-eyed, (19 December 1343, Dresden – 9 February 1407, Schloss Grimma) was Margrave of Meissen. His nickname is related to the legend that Saint Benno appeared to him because of his disputes with the Church in a dream and he had an eye gouged out.
- William, Margrave of Meissen
Life. He was the eldest son of Count William III of Weimar...
- William II, Margrave of Meissen
Wilhelm II, the Rich (23 April 1371 – 13 March 1425) was the...
- Category:Margraves of Meissen
Henry I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark. Henry II, Margrave...
- William, Margrave of Meissen
- Predecessors
- Founding
- Wettin Rule
- Burgravate
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In the mid 9th century, the area of the later margravate was part of an eastern frontier zone of the Carolingian Empire called Sorbian March (Limes Sorabicus), after Sorbian tribes of Polabian Slavs settling beyond the Saale river. In 849, a margrave named Thachulf was documented in the Annales Fuldenses. His title is rendered as dux Sorabici limit...
In 928 and 929, during the final campaign against the Glomacze tribes, Henry the Fowler, East Frankish king since 919, chose a rock above the confluence of the Elbe and Triebisch rivers to erect a new fortress, called Misni (Meissen) Castle after the nearby Meisa stream. The fortifications were renamed Albrechtsburgin the 15th century. A town soon ...
Emperor Henry IV then granted Meissen to Count Henry of Eilenburg of the Wettin dynasty. The margravate would remain under Wettin rule for the rest of its existence. Under Wiprecht von Groitzsch in the 1120s, Meissen underwent a process of Germanisation. He was succeeded by Conrad the Great (1123–56), Otto the Rich (1156–91), and Dietrich the Hard-...
Around 1068, Meissen Castle received its own burgrave. In time the Meinheringerfamily would come to control the burgravate.
Thompson, James Westfall. Feudal Germany, Volume II. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1928.
- Feudal monarchy
- Meissen
- Margravate
- Upper Saxon
After the abolition of all German monarchies in 1918 and the death of Friedrich August III, the last king of Saxony, in 1932, further heads of the house and pretenders to the throne have used the title Margrave of Meissen.
AffiliationNameYearsComments981–982also Margrave of MerseburgEkkeharding985–1002Son of Gunther of MerseburgWeimar-Orlamünde1062–1067Died without male heirsBrunonen1068–1089Revolted against King Henry IV in 1076Albert Leopold Friedrich Christian Sylvester Anno Macarius, Prince of Saxony, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen (31 December 1893 – 9 August 1968) was the second son of Frederick Augustus III, the last reigning king of Saxony before the abolition of the monarchy in 1918.
