Theodoric IV, Landgrave of Lusatia
Dietrich III. ( IV ), also called Diezmann (* 1260, † probably on December 10, 1307 in Leipzig) from the House of Wettin, was from 1291 to 1303 as Dietrich IV Margrave of Lausitz, also from 1291 Margrave Easter in the country and from 1298 as Dietrich (I.) Landgrave of Thuringia.
Life
Dietrich was in 1260 as the third son of Albert the Degenerate and Margaretha von Staufen, daughter of Emperor Frederick II, was born.
After Dietrich's mother in 1270 had fled due to the affection of her husband to Cunegonde of Eisenberg of the Wartburg, Dietrich and his older brother Friedrich were the open -ended at the court of his uncle, the Margrave Dietrich of Landsberg, educated. When the brothers were grown up, they warred with her brother Henry the father because the son begotten with Cunegonde Apitz (Albrecht ) favored by wanting to inherit his land county Thuringia.
Dietrich came first in the possession of the Pleissenland, received by Henry the Illustrious death in 1288 the Mark Lausitz and after the death of Frederick Tutas in 1291 the Easter country.
In 1301 the Archbishop of Magdeburg Burchard II of Blankenburg him wiederkäuflich sold the locks Droissig and Burgwerben for 2000 Mark Stendalisches silver, which were later not honored. Also, the castle and town Spremberg were sold.
1303 sold Dietrich Mark Lausitz to the Brandenburg line of Ascanians.
Through the German King Adolf of Nassau deprived of his inheritance, he took it back to his overthrow. When King Albert I with a large army invaded the country Easter, Dietrich and Friedrich brought him to the forefront of armed citizens and farmers as well as Brunswick rider pile at the Battle of Lucka on May 31, 1307 a complete defeat at.
Dietrich died in December 1307 in Leipzig. According to later traditions, he was reportedly killed on 24 or December 25, 1307 by a Philip of Nassau in Leipzig's St. Thomas Church. However, it is more likely that he died on 10 December 1307.
Family
From his marriage with Jutta, daughter of Count Berthold VIII of Henneberg from the House of Henneberg, whom he had married in 1295, probably not entitled to inherit children were born.