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Thietmar (also Dietmar or Dithmar; 25 July 975 – 1 December 1018), Prince-Bishop of Merseburg from 1009 until his death in 1018, was an important chronicler recording the reigns of German kings and Holy Roman Emperors of the Ottonian dynasty.
Apr 11, 2024 · Thietmar (born July 25, 975, Hildesheim, Saxony [Germany]—died Dec. 1, 1018, Merseburg, March of Thuringia) was the bishop of Merseburg and chronicler whose history of the three Ottos and Henry II, Saxon kings of Germany and Holy Roman emperors, is an important medieval Saxon document.
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Thietmar, Count of Merseburg. Thietmar (I) (also Thiatmar, Dietmar, or Thiommar) (died 1 June 932), Count and Margrave, was the military tutor ( vir disciplinae militaris peritissmus) of Henry the Fowler while he was the heir and then duke of the Duchy of Saxony. He probably kept a small body of elite retainers (though he once feigned at having ...
The Saxon bishop Thietmar of Merseburg (975–1018) was one of the principal historians of the Holy Roman Empire. His Chronicon was written between 1009 and 1018, and Book I, from which the following extracts are taken, gives an account of the expansion of Germanic power into the Slav lands of Mecklenburg and Pomerania, providing a frontier ...
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- 2001
THIETMAR (DIETMAR) OF MERSEBURG. Bishop and chronicler: b. July 25, 975; d. Merseburg, Germany, Dec. 1, 1018. Descended from the noble Saxon house of Walbeck and related to the imperial family, Thietmar was educated at Quedlinburg and Magdeburg.
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Thietmar of Merseburg. Thietmar, who was Bishop of Merseburg from 1009 to 1018, was one of the most important chroniclers of the Ottonian age. Descending from the house of the Counts of Walbeck, Thietmar received a comprehensive education in Quedlinburg and Magdeburg for his later clerical career.
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