Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen

Ekkehard (c. 985; † January 24, 1046 ) was Count in Gau Chutizi and in the Castle Ward Teuchern from the noble Ekkehardiner. He was from 1034, when Ekkehard I, Margrave of Lusatia from 1038, as Ekkehard II, Margrave of Meissen. He was a son of Margrave Ekkehard I. and Suanehild, who came from the family of Bill Unger.

Life

The influence of the Marquis was so strong that the Ekkehardiner closest advisor to the emperor and princes were by the politically and militarily strategic area. He was married with Uta von Ballenstedt. The marriage remained childless.

Ekkehard and his wife Uta were among the 12 founders of the Naumburg Cathedral.

With Ekkehard ended the gender of the Ekkehardiner. He and his brother Hermann installed at the request of Emperor Konrad II the bishopric seat of Zeitz to Naumburg and inherited a considerable portion of your estate to the Collegiate Church of St. Cyriacus to Gernrode anhaltischer in Uta's home.

In association with Archbishop Bardo of Mainz Ekkehard 1040 led the Thuringian army, which from the north, the military campaign of King Henry III. should support against the Duchy of Bohemia. He penetrated victoriously on the Eger, but was compelled ( defeat in the First Battle of Chlumec ) also to repentance by the misfortune of the royal army. In the following year the Duke Břetislav I could be forced into submission by the union of the two armies before Prague. " Fidelissimum fidelem nostrum " called him Henry III. in a document from 1041.