Thimo I, Count of Wettin (9 March 1090/1091 or c. 1100), a member of the Wettin dynasty, was Count of Wettin and Brehna.

Life

Thimo was a younger son of Margrave Theodoric II, Margrave of Lower Lusatia and his wife Mathilda, a daughter of Margrave Eckard I of Meissen. When his father was killed in 1034, Thimo succeeded him in his Wettin and Brehna home territories. He also served as ''

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'' (bailiff) of the Naumburg diocese and of the Wettin family monastery in Gerbstedt. In the

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of 1073–75, Thimo fought against King Henry IV and also quarreled with his brother Bishop Frederick of

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. Later he again approached the king and in 1088 attended the ''

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, where the Brunonid margrave Egbert II of Meissen was deposed. The exact year of Thimo's death is unclear; since his son Conrad was born in approximately 1098, Thimo cannot have died long before this year. Alternatively, some researchers assume that Thimo was in fact Conrad's grandfather, and that Conrad's father was an unknown son of Thimo's with the same name, making a death year of 1090/91 possible, as given in a chronicle. However, since Thimo II is not otherwise attested, this is considered unlikely. Thimo is buried at the monastery of

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, which he had founded.

Marriage and children

Thimo married Ida, daughter of Count

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. Together they had three children: *Dedi IV (died 16 December 1124), Count of Wettin, married Berta, daughter of Margrave

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, died without male heirs *

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(c. 1097–1157) *Mathilde, married Count Gero I of Seeburg in 1115, and secondly Count Louis of

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