Dedi I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark
Margrave Dedo (c. 1010; † October 1075 ) was as Dedo II Count of Wettin, from 1034 Graf at Castle hurry castle, Count in the districts Siusili, Serimunt and Nizizi, from 1046 Dedo I. Margrave of Mark Lausitz and Graf southern Schwabengau, from the noble family of Wettin. He was a son of Margrave Dietrich II / I and brother of Bishop Frederick I of Munster and Count of Wettin Thimonville.
Life
Dedo was after the Altaicher annals from the year 1046 by Emperor Henry III. with two margravates enfeoffed: Lusatia and Thuringia. In the further course of time they formed a unit, but in the mid-11th century, there were still two different power or administrative areas.
1069, even before the 1073 beginning Saxon nobility revolt, there was an armed confrontation between the Salian Emperor Henry IV and Mark Graf Dedo bring I, in which it was to try Dedos, goods, including royal, force itself. In addition, the conflict with the king is also to bring with the indicated in the annals Altaicher voltages ostsächsischer noble one hand and the other hand in connection Salian, because this felt limited in their rights. In response to the actions Wettiners Henry IV drew together an army and led it through Thuringia and Saxony. Help got Dedo in this conflict by the husband of his step-daughter Adelheid, Adalbert II of Ballenstedt. After the conquest of the two castles Burgscheidungen and Beichlingen, had placed teams in the Dedo, the Marquis saw the hopelessness of his situation and gave himself up. The king ordered him to capture, and he had to give extensive properties. Moreover, he was deposed and his son Dedo II used as Margrave of Lausitz. After the assassination Dedo II in the same year Henry IV reconciled and Dedo I. and he got back the Margrave office.
In the year 1073 rose the prince of East Saxony against Henry IV; to them was Dedo. However, due to the experiences of 1069 he was one of the more moderate and princes sought in Goslar aim is to mitigate the wrath of the princes present to Henry IV. Even before the peace concluded in February 1074 Dedo seems to have switched sides, because when after the fighting began again, he stayed out of this. 1075 he attended on behalf of the king for the protection of the Russian Grand Duke Izjaslav I, who was in Saxony. Still, he had his son, later Margrave Henry I, set as a hostage.
Dedo died in 1075 after a long illness.
Family
Dedo was married in first marriage with Oda, widow of William III. of Weimar, daughter of Thietmar, who had been from 1015 to 1030 Margrave of Lausitz.
Children:
His second wife he married in 1068 Adela, a granddaughter of Lambert I of Leuven. She was the Margrave Otto I of Meissen widow. This was a son of Dedo 's first wife Oda from her first marriage with William III. of Weimar.
Children: