Eckbert II the Younger ( German: Ekbert II ; c. 1059/1061 - July 3, 1090 ) - Count of Braunschweig and Derlingau from 1068, Margrave of Friesland 1068-1086, Margrave of Meissen 1068-1089, son of Margrave Eckbert I the Elder and Irmgarda of Turin.
| Eckbert II the Younger | |||||||
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| him. Ekbert II | |||||||
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| Regent | Dedo II von Wettin ( 1068 -?) | ||||||
| Predecessor | Eckbert I Senior | ||||||
| Successor | Gertrude Braunschweig and Heinrich Northheim | ||||||
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| Regent | Dedo II von Wettin ( 1068 -?) | ||||||
| Predecessor | Eckbert I Senior | ||||||
| Successor | To the bishopric of Utrecht | ||||||
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| Regent | Dedo II von Wettin ( 1068 -?) | ||||||
| Predecessor | Eckbert I Senior | ||||||
| Successor | Vratislav Czech | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Vratislav Czech | ||||||
| Successor | Henry I von Wettin | ||||||
| Birth | OK. 1059/1061 | ||||||
| Death | July 3, 1090 Sclicha | ||||||
| Burial place | Braunschweig , St. Kyriacus Monastery | ||||||
| Kind | Brunons | ||||||
| Father | Eckbert I Senior | ||||||
| Mother | Irmgarda of Turin | ||||||
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Biography
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After the death of his father in 1068, Eckbert inherited his possessions, despite the fact that he was still a minor. The lands he inherited included possessions around Braunschweig and Central Friesland , as well as the Meissen mark . The guardian with him was the Margrave of the Nizhneluzhitsky brand Dedo II von Wettin , married to the widow of the former Meissen Margrave Otton I of Weimar .
In 1073, the Saxon nobility led by the former Duke of Bavaria, Otton Nordheim, rebelled against Emperor Henry IV . Sources do not say whether Eckbert, a close relative of the emperor, participated in the Saxon rebellion , but this is likely. In 1076, the Saxon nobility again rebelled against the emperor. Otton of Northheim again led the uprising, and Eckbert joined this uprising. After that, Emperor Henry IV confiscated the Meissen stamp from Ekbert, handing it over to the Czech prince Vratislav II , but soon Ekbert managed to return it. And in 1077, Emperor Henry confiscated Friesland from Eckbert, passing it to the Bishop of Utrecht.
Eckbert supported Rudolf Reinfeldensky as an anti-king, and after his death in 1080 heinrich Zalmsky . After his death in 1083, Otton of Northheim, Eckbert became the most serious opponent of the emperor among the Saxon nobility. After a short reconciliation in 1085, he resumed the struggle. In response, in February 1086, the emperor transferred the possessions of Eckbert in Central Friesland to the Bishop of Utrecht .
In 1087, the bishops of Magdeburg Hartwig and Halberstadt Burchard planned to transfer the imperial crown to Eckbert, as a close relative of Henry IV. However, the emperor gathered an army and opposed the rebellious Saxony. In 1088, German Zalmsky was forced to flee to Lorraine, where he died. Eckbert tried to continue the struggle against the emperor, but unsuccessfully. In December 1088, Eckbert inflicted a heavy defeat on Henry besieging the castle of Gleichen in Thuringia. The emperor fled and barely managed to take refuge in Regensburg . In 1089, Margrave Eckbert besieged Hildesheim , where after a long siege he captured Bishop Udo. On February 1, 1089, it was announced at the Reichstag in Regensburg that all of Eckbert’s possessions had been confiscated.
However, Eckbert, who was forced to flee, did not give up, planning to again oppose the emperor. But on July 3, 1090, he was treacherously killed in a mill in Sklich. With his death, the Brunon house on the male line died out.
Ekbert's possessions were divided. Braunschweig possessions went to his sister Gertrude and her husband Heinrich Northheim . Meissen was transferred to Henry I of Eilenburg from the House of Vettins .
Marriage
Wife: formerly 1080 Oda Weimar (d. 1111), daughter of Otto I , Earl of Weimar and Orlamunde and Margrave Meissen, and Adele of Louvain.
About children from this marriage is not mentioned. However, there is a hypothesis that the son of Eckbert II was Eckbert (d. January 9, 1132), bishop of Münster since 1127 [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Ekbert's grandfather, Ludolph of Braunschweig , was the uterine brother of Emperor Henry III , the father of Emperor Henry IV.
- ↑ Wilhelm Kohl. Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Köln. Das Bistum Münster 7.1: Die Diözese. (Germania sacra: Historisch-statistische Beschreibung der Kirche des alten Reichs, Bd. 37, 1) . - Walter de Gruyter, 1999. - P. 95. - ISBN 978-3-11-016470-1 .
Literature
- Heinrich Theodor Flathe. Ekbert II. // Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). - Bd. 5. - Lpz. : Duncker & Humblot, 1877. - S. 784. (German)
- Walter Schlesinger. Ekbert II // Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 4. - Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1959. - P. 428.
- Josef Dolle. Ekbert II., Graf von Braunschweig, Markgraf von Meißen // Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent et al. (Hrsg.) Braunschweigisches biographisches Lexikon: 8. bis 18. Jahrhundert. - Braunschweig: Appelhans Verlag, 2006 .-- P. 193. - ISBN 3937664467 .
- Paul Rockrohr. Ekbert II. Markgraf von Meissen // Neues Archiv für Sächsische Geschichte 7. - 1886. - P. 177-215.
Links
- Ekbert II. Graf von Braunschweig Markgraf von Meißen (link not available) . Mittelalterliche Genealogie im Deutschen Reich bis zum Ende der Staufer. Date of treatment December 24, 2011. Archived on September 28, 2013.
- BRUNSWICK Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Date of treatment December 24, 2011.