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The Margravate or Margraviate of Meissen ( German: Markgrafschaft Meißen) was a medieval principality in the area of the modern German state of Saxony. It originally was a frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire, created out of the vast Marca Geronis ( Saxon Eastern March) in 965. Under the rule of the Wettin dynasty, the margravate finally ...
- Feudal monarchy
- Meissen
- Margravate
- Upper Saxon
The region between the rivers Elbe and Oder were then ruled by Gero as the margraviate of Ostmark 937-965. When Gero died 965 was Ostmark partitioned into five new margraviates whereupon Meissen was created but also Nordmark, which was the predecessor to Brandenburg. Meissen became 1089 the core land of the house of Wettin's possessions and ...
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In 1002 Ekkard was succeeded by his brother Gunzelin, and then by his sons Hermann I. and Ekkard II. Under these margraves the area of the mark was further increased, but when Ekkard II. died in 1046 it was divided, and Meissen proper was given successively to William and Otto, counts of Weimar, and Egbert II., count of Brunswick.
And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 27 And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’” 28 So the sons of ...
Thietmar (II) (c. 945 – 3 August 979) was Margrave of Meissen from about 976 until his death. Life. Thietmar was the eldest of three brothers, all sons of Margrave Christian, count in the Saxon Eastern March, and his wife Hidda, sister of Margrave Gero the Great. His brothers were Archbishop Gero of Cologne and Margrave Odo of the Saxon Ostmark.
- Hidda of Merseburg
- Christian of Thuringia
History. King Henry the Fowler, on his 928–29 campaign against the Slavic Glomacze tribes, had a fortress erected on a hill at Meissen (Mišno) on the Elbe river. Later named Albrechtsburg, the castle about 965 became the seat of the Meissen margraves, installed by Emperor Otto I when the vast Marca Geronis (Gero's march) was partitioned into five new margraviates, including Meissen, the ...
"These were the sons of Levi, by their names; Gershon, Kehat, and Merari." (Num. 3:17) The Levites were divided into three clans, the descendents of Levi's three sons. These clans were assigned the job of erecting, dismantling, and transporting the different components of the Tabernacle when it had to be moved.
