Egbert I () (died 11 January 1068) was the
Margrave 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 S ...
from 1067 until his early death the next year. Egbert was the Count of
Brunswick from about 1038, when his father,
Liudolf, Margrave of Frisia, died.
Egbert was the scion of the influential
Eastphalian family of the
Brunonen. He inherited the familial lands in Brunswick and from about 1051 he shared the chief authority in the region with the
Bishop of Hildesheim. Egbert also extended his authority and estates into
Frisia
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under the suzerainty of the
Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen.
Although closely related to the
Salian dynasty, Egbert participated in the
coup d'état of Kaiserswerth in 1062, whereat a group of nobles acting under
Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne, tried to seize authority in the kingdom from
King Henry IV and his regent mother, the
Empress Agnes.
In 1058, Egbert married
Immilla, the daughter of
Ulric Manfred II of Turin, and widow of
Otto of Schweinfurt. Egbert tried to repudiate Immilla shortly before his death in 1068.
His only son,
Egbert II, succeeded him in Meissen. His daughter
Gertrude later brought Meissen to her husband,
Henry von Eilenburg.
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1068 deaths
Egbert 01
Counts of Frisia
Brunonids
Counts of Brunswick
Year of birth unknown