Thimo the Brave, Count of Wettin
Thimo, Count of Wettin ( * before 1034, † 1091 or 1118) was the son of Margrave Dietrich, and Mathilde von Meissen .. Count Thimonville died after the Naumburg annals on March 9, 1091 according to other sources until the year 1118. according Paetzold, in 1997 indicates the year of death with after about 1101. He married Ida, daughter of Otto of Northeim, temporarily Duke of Bavaria. He was the first to be named after the castle Wettin.
Life
Thimo was one of the early Saxon nobility revolt against Henry IV (1073-1075) to the group of opponents king. He held the office of bailiff of the Bishopric of Naumburg. At the same time he was bailiff of the Wettin house monastery Gerbstedt.
The Wettin came into conflict with the king friendly bishops of Munster, where it was about rights to the monastery and prevented Archbishop elections two Wettin family, namely his brother Friedrich, Bishop of Münster was, and his nephew Günther, the then Bishop of Naumburg was.
In 1088 he was present together with other Wettiners on the Quedlinburg court day on which Egbert II the Mark Meissen was withdrawn. Thimo approached at this time of Emperor Henry IV at. Together with Dedo IV, his son, and Henry I, his nephew, he took part in the solemn introduction of Hirsauer observance in the Lippold mountain monastery in 1101.
The previously assumed identity Thimos of Wettin with the represented among the founding figures of the Naumburg Cathedral of Timo Kistritz is new research indicates that unlikely.