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The March or Margraviate of Lusatia ( German: Mark (grafschaft) Lausitz) was an eastern border march of the Holy Roman Empire in the lands settled by Polabian Slavs. It arose in 965 in the course of the partition of the vast Marca Geronis. Ruled by several Saxon margravial dynasties, among them the House of Wettin, the lordship was contested by ...
Dedi (or Dedo) (1004 – October 1075) was the Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (also called Lower Lusatia) from 1046 and a claimant for the title of Margrave of Meissen from 1069. He was the second son of Dietrich II of Wettin and Matilda, daughter of Eckard I of Meissen .
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Dietrich II (c. 970 – 19 November 1034) was Margrave of Lusatia from 1032 to 1034, the first of the Wettin dynasty.
- c. 990
- Mathilda of Meissen
- 19 November 1034
- House of Wettin
mature. romance. Rating: 7.6. — 15 votes. Description: Margrave of the Empire, valiant brown lion, master of the famous sword Askaron. And the owner of Znebu, the land of the Altas Mountains that touches the sky, the border of the empire.
Dietrich I, Margrave of Lusatia (1 F) Dietrich II, Margrave of Lusatia (4 F) H. Henry III, Margrave of Meissen (1 C, 16 F) M. Margravines of Lusatia (5 C)
Lusatia and the Ostmark were ruled together and eventually the Ostmark was reduced to little more than Lower Lusatia. Under Henry IV, Upper Lusatia was detached from the Lusatian march and granted as a fief to Bolesław II of Poland. The first "Margrave of Lusatia" is only known from 1046. Under Emperor
All of Lusatia was ceded to Saxony 1635, but Saxony was 1815 forced to cede Lower Lusatia to Prussia. * = Friedrich was margrave of Landsberg 1283-1288. This margraviate had been created 1261 for his father Dietrich the Wise through a partitioning of Meissen and was reunited with Meissen 1288.
