Burchard, Duke of Thuringia
Burchard († August 3 908) was a count of the Sorbian Mark and Margrave and Duke of Thuringia at the turn of the 9th to the 10th century.
His family origin is unclear; maybe he was a descendant of that Burchard, who officiated according to a document of King Louis the German in the year 858 as Count in Saxony. This Burchard may have been identical to that which occurred 857 and 866 as a witness to charters of Grabfeldgaugrafen Christian. Based on the Leitnamens frequently occurring can be a source of Burcharde occurring in the Thuringian region of a Burchardus comitem stabuli of the Emperor Charles the Great constructed, quellennmäßig but not be substantiated.
Burchard was appointed 892 " Duke of Thuringia " in the Sorbian Mark after Poppo ( Babenberg ) and him only briefly following Conrad the Elder ( Conradines ) had been down there this year first. Well a little later he also brought the Husitingau itself. He appeared in the episode in some documents of King Ludwig of the child as a witness to, including the title " Margrave of Thuringia ". Together with the Bishop Rudolf of Würzburg and the Badanachgaugrafen Egino fell Burchard on August 3, 908 at the head of an army in battle against the invading Hungary in Thuringia. He had two sons, Burchard and Bardo, one of which with the future King Conrad I was related and which were both sold 913 of the Saxon Duke Heinrich of Thuringia.
The Thuringian brand Duke Burchard is a point of discussion whether the origin of the German Uradelsgeschlechts of Wettin. In an extension of the genealogy of the House of Wettin of Otto Posse from 1897 Burchard is assumed about one of his two sons as the grandfather of Hassegaugrafen Dedi ( Teti ), which would have been loud farce turn the father of Dietrich ( Thiedrico ), the first known Wettiners, . As evidence for this theory is the fact that both Dietrich and his son Dedo in a contemporary chronicle as the root of or the " Buzici " be attributed. The otherwise unspecified root name " Buzici " is interpreted as a variation of Leitnamens Burchard, who is ultimately traced back to the follower of Charlemagne could. However, a descent of the Wettin of the Swabian dukes of Burchard Inger is also possible according to the same reasoning.