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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 merged with the former Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg into the Saxon Electorate by 1423.
Meissen is the predecessor to the present German part state of Saxony and it was during the tenth century populated by Slavic tribes who were subdued by the German margrave Gero the Great. The region between the rivers Elbe and Oder were then ruled by Gero as the margraviate of Ostmark 937-965.
This article lists the margraves of Meissen, a march and territorial state on the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire. History [ edit ] 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.
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In 985 the emperor Otto III. bestowed the office of margrave upon Ekkard I., margrave of Merseburg, and the district comprising the marks of Meissen, Merseburg and Zeitz was generally known as the mark of Meissen. In 1002 Ekkard was succeeded by his brother Gunzelin, and then by his sons Hermann I. and Ekkard II.
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The Society of the Cincinnati, Gift of Margaretta Kingsbury Maganini, 1969 The Society took its name from the ancient Roman hero Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. In the fifth century BC, Cincinnatus was twice called out of retirement to lead the Roman army against foreign invaders.
