Dedo I of Wettin
Dedo I, Count of Wettin (* 960, † November 13, 1009 ) was a son of Dietrich from the Saxon noble family of Wettin. His brother was Count Friedrich von hurry castle.
Life
The young Dedo spent his childhood with his relative, Marquis Rikdag, Lord of the Mark Meissen, Zeitz Mark and Mark Merseburg, and was thus closely related to one of the most influential men of East Saxony. Married with Dedo was Thietburga, the daughter of Margrave Dietrich of Haldensleben, Lord of the Nordmark, which he had taken to wife before 985.
In the years 974-985 Dedo I was in the rebellion of the Bavarian Duke Henry of Bavaria against Emperor Otto II, and later to his son Otto III. involved, which the Bavarian Duke finally subjugated in Frankfurt in June 985. In the year 976 Dedo commanded a Bohemian army, which took Zeitz and the Episcopal Church robbed. With the spoils of the Wettin led allegedly continued even his own mother as prisoners.
To the archbishop of Magdeburg Gislher Dedo obviously had a good relationship. Who helped him after the death of Count Graf Binizo rights in the northern Hassegau. In addition, Dedo successfully claimed the Castle Ward Zoerbig for himself and his brother Friedrich.
The years before Dedos death were eventually overshadowed by a feud with the Walbeckern whose cause is not known. Dedo claimed as the husband of the daughter of the Margrave of the Nordmark after his death the office for himself, but which the Walbecker Lothar received. Lothar prevailed in the Nordmark 983-1003. Thietmar Bishop of Merseburg, a nephew Lothar says in his chronicle that Dedo I. involved in the devastation of the castle Wolmirstedt that was in Walbecker possession. Even with Margrave Lothar's son and successor, Werner von Walbeck (1003-1009; † 1014) House of Wettin was in dispute. Dedo was killed on November 13, 1009 along with his vassals Egilhard of his adversary Werner near Moses at the confluence of Tangier and Elbe.
Count Dedo left a son:
Dietrich II, Count of Wettin, from 1031 Margrave of Mark Lausitz (c. 990; † 1034).