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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.
AffiliationNameYearsComments981–982also Margrave of MerseburgEkkeharding985–1002Son of Gunther of MerseburgWeimar-Orlamünde1062–1067Died without male heirsBrunonen1068–1089Revolted against King Henry IV in 1076May 28, 2004 · Augustus founded the Meissen factory by royal decree in 1710 and became its major patron. The factory began making stoneware, which was then superseded by white hard-paste porcelain. It made ...
Meissen porcelain or Meissen china was the first European hard-paste porcelain. Early experiments were done in 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus . After his death that October, Johann Friedrich Böttger continued von Tschirnhaus's work and brought this type of porcelain to the market, financed by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and ...
Mar 28, 2008 · Mr. Arnhold’s parents, Heinrich and Lisa Arnhold, were living in Dresden when they began collecting Meissen vases and tableware in 1926.
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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.
