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Adela Of Louvain (died 1083)
Adela of Louvain (d.1083) was margravine of Meissen and later, margravine of the Saxon Ostmark. Life Adela was the daughter of Lambert II of Louvain and Uda of Lorraine (also called Oda of Verdun), daughter of Gothelo I of Lorraine. Before 1060, Adela of Louvain, married Otto I, Margrave of Meissen, Count of Weimar. After Otto’s death in 1067 Eckbert I, Margrave of Meissen attempted to repudiate his own wife, Immilla of Turin in order to marry Adela and secure his hold on the mark of Meissen. Eckbert died in 1068, and the following year, Adela married Dedi I of Lusatia. Dedi also tried to claim the mark of Meissen through marriage to Adela, and rebelled against Henry IV of Germany when Henry refused to invest Dedi with this property. Lampert of Hersfeld depicted Adela as the driving force behind Dedi’s rebellion, calling her a “most ferocious wife” (''saevissima uxor''). According to Lampert, Adela goaded Dedi into action by telling him: “if he were a man, he would not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Margraves Of Meissen
This article lists the margraves of Margraviate of Meissen, Meissen, a March (territorial entity), march and territorial state on the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire. History King Henry the Fowler, on his 928-29 campaign against the Slavic Glomacze tribes, had a fortress erected on a hill at Meissen (''Mišno'') on the Elbe river. Later named ''Albrechtsburg'', the castle about 965 became the seat of the Meissen margraves, installed by Emperor Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I when the vast ''Marca Geronis'' (Gero's march) was partitioned into five new margraviates, including Meissen, the Saxon Eastern March, and also the Northern March which eventually became the Margraviate of Brandenburg. During the tenth century, the Meissen margraves temporarily extended their territory into the Milceni lands up to the Kwisa (''Queis'') river and the border with the Silesian region of the Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385), Early Polish state. The eastern lands around Bautzen (''Bud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
