Conrad II, Margrave of Lusatia
Margrave Conrad II, also Margrave Konrad II von Landsberg (* after the September 13, 1159, † May 6, 1210 ) was from 1190 Margrave of the Ostmark ( marchio orientalis) / Lausitz and Lord of Rochlitz. He inherited after the death of his older brother Dietrich 1207 the county Groitzsch. As the son of the Marquis Dedo III. and those coming from the Lower Rhine Countess Matilda of Heinberg, he was referred to as Dedonide and belonged in the broader sense of their relationship with Association of Wettin.
Life
Konrad, the title of Margrave was from 1185, was invested in 1190 by the ruler with the Ostmark / Lausitz. After the Emperor Henry VI. - Margrave Albrecht of Meissen in 1195 at the death - had the Mark Meissen drafted as ceased fief of the empire, Konrad von Landsberg remained the only Wettin in possession of a princely fief, and was an elder of the Vogt family of the Augustinian Canons Lauterberg.
Between 1196 and 1198 Conrad was on the crusade of Emperor Henry VI. in the Holy Land, where he participated in March 1198 in Acre in the founding of the Teutonic Order. For the year 1200 planned on switching the Mainz Metropolitan arbitration dispute over the throne Konrad was provided as a princely representatives of the side of King Philip. In 1202 Landsberger led an embassy to Rome to promote Philip. He was accompanied by Provost Walter of the Augustinian Canons Lauterberg and the chosen bishop Dietrich von Merseburg, an illegitimate son of Margrave Dietrich of the Ostmark / Lausitz. In 1207, he held in Delitzsch a margravial court Assembly from the Ostmark / Lausitz (country thing ). After King Philip's violent death in 1208 recognized Konrad and his cousin Dietrich meißnischer the Harried the Welf Otto IV after receipt of 22,000 marks of silver as the new king ( Braunschweiger rhyming chronicle ).
Konrad uncertificated in February 1210 Köpenick ( Copnic ) at the confluence of the Spree and Dahme, after he had previously added in the Lubusz Land on the Oder his ostmärkisch - Lusatian territory. He had with his father Dedo ( the fats, plump ) captured in the second half of the 1180s and have actively expand in the nineties Köpenick and surrounding areas. After his death Konrad was buried in the family grave dedonidischen laying in Zschillen monastery where already reposed his father and brother. Its coming from Poland wife Elizabeth was previously buried in the year in Dobrilugk monastery. As Konrad died without male heirs, Emperor Otto IV moved the Margraviate Ostmark / Lausitz as a completed fiefs and gave it in 1210 to a high sum as princely Fahnlehen to Conrad's relatives Meissen Margrave Dietrich the oppressed. With Konrad the 1156/57 line -onset ended self Margrave of Ostmark / Lausitz again already. His remains were examined end of the 1950s, anthropological and showed the image of a strong, well-toned man who was concerned, however, at the end of his fifty year life of serious health damage.
Marriages and descendants
He married probably at the beginning of the 1180s, but not before 1181, Elisabeth ( Elżbieta ) of Poland, (c. 1152; † April 2, 1209 ), a daughter of the Polish duke Mieszko III. and widow of the Duke Soběslav II of Bohemia († 1180). With her he had three children.
- A son, whose name is not known ( 1207 testifies; † before May 6, 1210 )
- Mechthild († 1255 in Salzwedel ), buried in the monastery Lehnin; ∞ August 1205 Albrecht II, Margrave of Brandenburg, † February 25, 1220 buried in the monastery Lehnin ( Ascanians )
- Agnes († 1266 ), founder of the monastery Wienhausen, there buried; ∞ 1211 Henry I of Lange, * probably 1173/74; † April 28, 1227 in Braunschweig, 1195-1212, Count Palatine of the Rhine, buried in Brunswick Cathedral