Markgrafschaft Meißen Margraviate of Meissen State of the Holy Roman Empire ← 965 – 1423 → Capital Meissen Government Principality Historical era Middle Ages  - Partitioned from     marca Geronis   965  - Investiture Controversy¹ 1067  - War of Thuringian     Succession   1247–64  - Acquired most of the     Landgraviate of Thuringia   1298  - Battle of Lucka 1307  - Frederick IV assigned     Saxony-Wittenberg   1423  - Acquired Burggraviate 1426 1: As a result of the Investiture Controversy in 1067, the territory was lost from the Brunonen to the Wettin dynasty.

Meissen, with the Albrechtsburg and the Cathedral of Sts. Johannis and Donatus in the distance.

The March or Margraviate of Meissen (German: Mark(grafschaft) Meißen) was a mediæval principality, a march, of the Holy Roman Empire in the area of the modern German state of Saxony. This is the main page for the list of states which were part of the Holy Roman Empire, as alphabetized in the adjacent template, at any time within the empires existence between 962 and 1806. ... The extent of the Holy Roman Empire around 1630, superimposed over modern European state borders Capital None Language(s) Latin, German, many others Religion Roman Catholicism Government Monarchy Emperor  - 962–967 Otto I  - 973–983 Otto II  - 996–1002 Otto III  - 1014– 1024 Henry II  - 1027–1039 Conrad II  - 1046... The hatched portion of the map in the northeast excepting the March of the Billungs was the marca Geronis, notice the Mark Merseburg which was one of its partitions. ... Image File history File links Sin_escudo. ... 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A contemporary monument to the Battle of Lewes, a crucial 1264 battle in the Second Barons War in England. ... The Landgraviate of Thuringia was a territory, for some time, ruled by members of the House of Wettin. ... Events July 2 - The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg. ... The Battle of Lucka occurred on May 31, 1307 near the village of Lucka, which was first mentioned in 1320, but had already existed for around the around 700 years before that. ... January 18 - German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia. ... Frederick I, the Belligerent Frederick IV, the Belligerent (11 April 1370 – 4 January 1428, Altenburg), son of Friedrich III, Landgraf of Thuringia and Katharina von Henneberg. ... With an area of 18,400 sq. ... Events July 31 - Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. ... Burgrave, the Eng. ... Events March 6 - Battle of St. ... 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Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 534 pixelsFull resolution (2500 × 1670 pixel, file size: 3 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Meißen at the river Elbe, a city in germany near Dresden in Saxony picture taken from a viewpoint called Juchhöh in the nearby mountains... Model of the castle Albrechtsburg and Cathedral The Albrechtsburg is the castle that dominates the city centre of Meißen, Germany. ... Mark or march (or various plural forms of these words) are derived from the Frankish word marka (boundary) and refer to a border region, e. ... The extent of the Holy Roman Empire around 1630, superimposed over modern European state borders Capital None Language(s) Latin, German, many others Religion Roman Catholicism Government Monarchy Emperor  - 962–967 Otto I  - 973–983 Otto II  - 996–1002 Otto III  - 1014– 1024 Henry II  - 1027–1039 Conrad II  - 1046... Location Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DED Capital Dresden Minister-President Georg Milbradt (CDU) Governing parties CDU / SPD Votes in Bundesrat 4 (from 69) Basic statistics Area  18,416 km² (7,110 sq mi) Population 4,252,000 (11/2006)[1]  - Density 231 /km...

The March of Meissen was sometimes called the Thuringian March or March of Thuringia. Usually, however, this was a term for the eastern part of the Meissen march, that is, the land east of the Elbe as far as the Saale, a land inhabited by Slavs. Formerly, the "Thuringian march" was called the "Sorbian march". This article is about a river in Central Europe. ... Length 413 km Elevation of the source 728  m Average discharge  ?  m³/s Area watershed  ?  km² Origin  Germany Mouth  Elbe Basin countries Germany Saale is the name of two rivers in Germany: the Saxonian Saale (German: Sächsische Saale) and the Franconian Saale (German: Fränkische Saale). ... Distribution of Slavic people by language The Slavic peoples are a linguistic and ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in Europe, where they constitute roughly a third of the population. ... The Sorb(ian) March (Latin: ; German: ) was a frontier district on the eastern border of East Francia in the 9th through 11th centuries. ...

Founding

In 928 or 929, during a campaign against the Slavs, Henry the Fowler built a castle on a hill on the Elbe. This castle he named Meissen after the nearby stream of Meisa. A town soon developed at the foot of the fortress. Henry, however, made no attempts to Germanise the Slavs or to create a chain of supporting burgwards for his new fortress, rather Meissen sat alone, like Brandenburg, with little organisation around it.^[1] That did not last, however. The town grew, eventually becoming one of the most important city's in the large marca Geronis which covered the eastern part of the Duchy of Saxony. When the marca was divided in 965 on the death of the margrave Gero the Great, Meissen formed the centre of a new march primarily against the Sorabians. The first mention of a margrave in Meissen comes in 968. That same year, the castle became the seat of the Diocese of Meissen. Henry I, the Fowler (German, Heinrich der Vogler) (876 - July 2, 936), was duke of Saxony from 912 and king of the Germans from 919 until his death in 936. ... Old town of Meißen. ... A burgward was a form of settlement used for the organisation of the northeastern marches of the Kingdom of Germany in the mid-10th century. ...   (Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ... The hatched portion of the map in the northeast excepting the March of the Billungs was the marca Geronis, notice the Mark Merseburg which was one of its partitions. ... The Duchy of Saxony was a medieval Duchy covering the greater part of Northern Germany. ... 14th-century wall painting depiciting Gero in the chuch he founded at Gernrode. ... The Sorbs (German Sorben Upper Sorbian: Serbja, Lower Sorbian: Serby) are a Slavic minority living in eastern Germany. ... The Bishop of Dresden-Meissen is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen in the Archdiocese of Berlin. ...

By 982, the territory of the march had extended as far as the Neisse to the east and in southern direction the Erzgebirge. In 983, following word of the defeat of the Emperor Otto II at the Battle of Stilo, the Slavic tribes bordering eastern Saxony rebelled. Havelberg and Brandenburg were destroyed and the March of Zeitz devastated. The margraves of Meissen, Lusatia, and the Nordmark joined with the troops of the Bishops of Halberstadt and Magdeburg and defeated the Slavs at Belkesheim, near Stendhal.^[2] Nevertheless, the Germans were once again limited to the land west of the Elbe. The Lusatian Neisse (German Lausitzer Neiße, Polish Nysa Łużycka, Czech Lužická Nisa) is a river in the Czech Republic (54 km) and on Polish-German border (198 km), in total 252 km long. ... In the 19th century the Erzgebirge mountains were a centre for lace making. ... Otto II (955 - December 7, 983, Rome), was the third German ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty. ... The Battle of Stilo was fought on 13 July 982 near Crotone in Calabria between the forces of the Emperor Otto II and his Lombard allies and those of the Kalbids, Moslem rulers of Sicily. ... Havelberg is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ... The Ottonian Empire, with the March of Zeitz (hatched), in the tenth century. ... The Ottonian Empire, including the March of Lusatia (hatched), in the tenth century. ... The Northern March within the Empire, 10th century. ... The Bishopric of Halberstadt was a Roman Catholic diocese from 804 until 1648 and a state of the Holy Roman Empire from the late Middle Ages until around 1800. ... The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire lying around Magdeburg along the Elbe River. ... Stendhal. ...

Wettin rule

The Mark Meissen (hatched) under the Ottos.

In 983, a certain Rikdag became the margrave, and, from 985 on, the title was held by the Ekkehardinger family. In 1002, Boleslaus I of Poland conquered the Thuringian March.^[3] In 1046, the margraviate went to the Weimar-Orlamünder family and, in 1067, to the Brunonen, whose representative, Egbert II, was deposed during the Investiture Controversy in 1089. Henry of Eilenburg, of the Wettin dynasty, under whose rule the margraviate would remain for the rest of its existence, succeeded him to the title later that year. Under Wiprecht von Groitzsch in the 1120s, the Germanisation of the Meissen finally began.^[4] Following him were Conrad the Great (1123–56), Otto the Rich (1156–91), and Dietrich the Hard-Pressed (1191–1221), under whom the march was expanded and developed. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1785, 901 KB) Summary La bildo estas kopiita de wikipedia:de. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1785, 901 KB) Summary La bildo estas kopiita de wikipedia:de. ... Rikdag, also Ricdag, ( ?-985) was a Saxon margrave of the 10th century. ... Reign From 992 until 1025 Coronation On April 18, 1025 in Gniezno Cathedral, Poland Royal House Piast Coat of Arms OrzeÅ‚ Piastowski Parents Mieszko I Dubrawka Consorts Rikdaga Judith Enmilda Oda Children with Judith Bezprym with Enmilda Regelina Mieszko II Lambert Otton with Oda Matylda Date of Birth 966/967... The Brunonen were a Saxon noble family in the 10th and 11th centuries. ... Egbert II (German: ) (ca. ... The Investiture Controversy, also known as the lay investiture controversy, was the most significant conflict between secular and religious powers in medieval Europe. ... Henry I (1070 – 1103), called the Elder, count of Eilenburg and son of Count Dedo II of Wettin and his second wife Adela of Brabant, inherited in 1075 the marches of Lusatia and Ostmark. ... The Wettin dynasty of German counts, dukes, Prince Electors (Kurfürsten) and kings ruled the area of todays German state of Saxony for more than 800 years as well as holding for a time the kingship of Poland. ... Wiprecht (or Wigbert) of Groitzsch (died 22 May 1124) was the Margrave of Meissen and the Saxon Ostmark from 1123 until his death. ... Conrad the Great in the Fürstenzug in Dresden. ... Events First Council of the Lateran confirms Concordat of Worms and demands that priests remain celibate End of the reign of Emperor Toba of Japan. ... Events Prince Yuriy Dolgorukiy fortifies Moscow, regarded as the date of the founding of the city Establishment of the Carmelite Order Hogen Rebellion in Japan January 20 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi... Otto II was the Margrave of Meissen from 1156 until his death in 1190. ... Events Prince Yuriy Dolgorukiy fortifies Moscow, regarded as the date of the founding of the city Establishment of the Carmelite Order Hogen Rebellion in Japan January 20 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi... // Events May 12 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. ... Dietrich, known as The Oppressed (born 1162, died 1221-01-18) was the Margrave of Meißen from 1198 to 1221. ... // Events May 12 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. ... // Events May 13 - End of the reign of Emperor Juntoku, emperor of Japan Emperor ChÅ«kyō briefly reigns over Japan Former Emperor Go-Toba leads an unsuccessful rebellion against the Kamakura Shogunate Emperor Go-Horikawa ascends to the throne of Japan January - Mongol Army under Jochi captures the city of...

In 1264, Henry III asserted himself in the war of the succession of the Landgraviate of Thuringia, where his uncle, Henry Raspe, had died childless. Between 1243 and 1255, Henry III acquired Pleisseland around Altenburg as a security measure. The Emperor Henry VII's attempt to force the Margraves of Meissen back into submission, failed in 1307 with his defeat in the Battle of Lucka. By that time the margraviate was de facto independent of any sovereign authority. Henry III, der Erlauchte or Henry the Illustrious (ca. ... // Kings of Thuringia 450-500 Bisinus 500-530 Baderich 500-530 Berthachar 500-531 Herminafried conquered by the Franks Dukes of Thuringia 634-642 Radulf 642-687 Heden I 687-689 Gozbert 689-719 Heden II 849-874 Thakulf 874-880 Radulf 880-892 Poppo 892-906 Konrad 907-908... Heinrich Raspe (1204 - February 16, 1247) became Landgraf, or count, of Thuringia (now part of modern-day Germany) in 1227; he later became king in 1246-1247 in opposition to Conrad IV. First in Thuringia, Heinrich ruled for his under-age nephew Hermann II, whom he had expelled from the... Pleissnerland, Pleissenland, or the Imperial Territory of Pleissenland (German: ; Latin: ) was part of the Holy Roman Empire. ... Altenburg is a town in the German Bundesland of Thuringia. ... Henry VII, (ca. ... The Battle of Lucka occurred on May 31, 1307 near the village of Lucka, which was first mentioned in 1320, but had already existed for around the around 700 years before that. ...

In the years following Lucka, there would be joint rule of the principality by multiple members of the Wettin dynasty at any given time. In the years 1382 and 1445, this even led to the division of the march. However, the cadet branches of the family frequently became extinct and the lands consequently reunited. At the same time, the territory could be extended by marriage, purchase, or conquest, which is how the margraviate gained the rights to the burgraviate of in 1426. At the end of 15th century, the ruling area of the Wettin dynasty was spread between the Werra and the Oder. The Werra is a river in central Germany. ... The Oder (or Odra) River (German: Oder, Polish/Czech: Odra, Ancient Latin: Viadua, Viadrus, Medieval Latin: Odera, Oddera) is a river in Central Europe (mostly in Poland). ...

In 1423, Frederick the Militant became Margrave and was assigned the Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg. With it the Margraviate of Meissen entered into the electorate of Saxony and lost its status as an independent principality. In 1485, the Leipzig Partition divided Saxony and Thuringia between the brothers Ernest and Albert, which marked the beginning of the permanate separation of the two states. Frederick I, the Belligerent Frederick IV, the Belligerent (11 April 1370 – 4 January 1428, Altenburg), son of Friedrich III, Landgraf of Thuringia and Katharina von Henneberg. ... With an area of 18,400 sq. ... The prince-electors or electoral princes of the Holy Roman Empire — German: Kurfürst (singular) Kurfürsten (plural) — were the members of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire, having the function of electing the Emperors of Germany. ... Ernest, Elector Of Saxony (1441 at Altenburg-1486) founder of the Ernestine line of Saxon princes, ancestor of Prince Consort. ... Albert Wettin (January 27, 1443 – September 12, 1500), Duke of Saxony, surnamed the Bold or the Courageous, was the younger son of Frederick II the Gentle. ...

Burggraviate

Around 1068, Meissen received its own burgrave. In time the Meinheringer family would come to control the burggraviate. Burgrave, the Eng. ...

See also

• List of Margraves of Meissen

The Margraviate of Meissen was a territorial state on the border of the German empire. ...

References

• Thompson, James Westfall. Feudal Germany, Volume II. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1928.

James Westfall Thompson (1869–1941) was an American historian specializing in the history of medieval and early modern Europe, particularly of the Holy Roman Empire and France. ...

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