Dedi III, Margrave of Lusatia

. Margrave Dedo III, called the Feiste or fats ( * before February 27, 1142; † August 16, 1190 ) was as Dedo V, Count of Wettin, from 1144 Lord of the castle Groitzsch, from 1156/57 Count of Groitzsch and Herr von Rochlitz and from 1185/86 Margrave of Lausitz.

Life

Dedo was born the son of the Marquis Conrad of Meissen and the Luitgard, born of Elchingen († 1145 ). Since 1144 he practiced as an inheritance of the Counts of Groitzsch sovereign rights in the county Groitzsch and as a younger son of the Margrave Konrad and adoptive son of his aunt Bertha, the heiress of Groitzsch, he received at the state division of 1156 the rule Rochlitz with the advocacy of the diocese Naumburg.

Dedo has participated in numerous army rides and court days of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy. Prior to Pope Alexander III. he implored in 1177 for the emperor as a witness to the peace of Venice, of ending the schism. Taken in Meissen succession dispute of 1189 he and his son Konrad party for Albrecht the Proud.

Dedo often stayed in Rochlitz and operate from here like his brothers Otto and Dietrich intensive land clearing and settlement policy. How these in Altzelle and Dobrilugk he donated in his realm a new spiritual device in the form of an Augustinian Canons in Zschillen ( 1168 ) (now changing castle ) as grave laying for his branch of the family of so-called Dedoniden. There he and his wife Mechthild as well as its political significance sons, Count Dietrich von Groitzsch and Margrave Konrad, were also buried by the Ostmark / Lausitz. Dedo worked politically closely with his relatives, the Archbishop Wichmann of Magdeburg. Together they dwelt in summer 1171 in Prague to negotiate with the Bohemian king Vladislav II Together they fought against Duke Henry the Lion. In 1187 he appeared as an advocate of the Prague bishop Heinrich in its legal dispute with Duke Frederick of Bohemia against the emperor.

After the 1185 death of his brother made ​​Dietrich, who called himself " Margrave of Ostmark / Lausitz ," Dedo received the same Margraviate against payment of 4000 marks by Emperor Frederick I fief.

Dedo died on August 16, 1190 as the result of a botched operation in which he. To participate in the expedition to Rome, and in the campaign against the Kingdom of Sicily by King Henry VI Had had to cut fat out of the body.

Progeny

Dedo was married to Mechthilde of Heinberg († January 20, 1190 ) and had six children from this marriage:

  • Dietrich ( * before September 13, 1159, † June 13, 1207 ), Count of Sommerschenburg and Groitzsch and then provost of Magdeburg
  • Philipp ( * before September 13, 1159 ), provost at Xanten ( 1182-1190 )
  • Conrad II (* 1160, † May 6, 1210 ), Margrave of Lusatia
  • Heinrich ( † 1174 )
  • Goswin († 1174 )
  • Agnes (c. 1160/65; † 24th/26th March 1195. ), Married to Berthold IV of Andechs- Meranien

About his daughter Agnes was Dedo grandfather of the holy Hedwig of Andechs, also on the sister of St.. Hedwig, Gertrude of Andechs, great-grandfather of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia.

Wettin, Saxony-Anhalt Theodoric I, Margrave of Lusatia Dobrilugk Abbey Wechselburg Priory Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia Conrad II, Margrave of Lusatia Berthold, Duke of Merania Hedwig of Silesia Gertrude of Merania Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Integrated Authority File
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