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Family of Dedi II + and Oda + of LAUSATIA

Husband: Dedi II + (1004-1075)
Wife: Oda + of LAUSATIA (1017-bef1068)
Children: Adelheid + of OSTMARK (1041-1071)
Marriage 1039 Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

Husband: Dedi II +

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Dedi II +

Name: Dedi II +
Sex: Male
Father: Dietrich II + of WETTIN (c. 979- )
Mother: Matilda + (c. 984- )
Birth 1004 Meissen, Dresden, Saxony
Occupation Margrave of the Ostmark
Title frm 1046 to 1075 (age 41-71) Margrave of the Ostmark
Death 1075 (age 70-71)

Wife: Oda + of LAUSATIA

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Oda + of LAUSATIA

Name: Oda + of LAUSATIA
Sex: Female
Father: Theitma + of OSTMARK (985-1030)
Mother: Reinhild + of BEICHLINGEN (c. 990- )
Birth 1017 Meissen, Dresden, Saxony
Death bef 1068 (age 50-51) Lausitz, Elbe-Elster, Brandenburg, Germany

Child 1: Adelheid + of OSTMARK

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Adelheid + of OSTMARK

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Spouse: Ernst +

Name: Adelheid + of OSTMARK
Sex: Female
Spouse: Ernst + (1024-1075)
Birth 1041 Meissen, Dresden, Saxony
Death 1071 (age 29-30) Austria

Note on Husband: Dedi II +

Dedi (or Dedo) (1004 – October 1075) was the Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (also called Lower Lusatia) from 1046 and Margrave of Meissen from 1069. He was the second son of Dietrich II of Wettin and Matilda, daughter of Eckard I of Meissen.

 

Dedi inherited the Ostmark from its last dynast, the childless Odo II, because he had married his sister, Oda (died before 1068). Oda was herself the widow of William III of Weimar and mother of William and Otto, margraves of Meissen successively. When Otto his stepson died, Dedi married his widow, Adela of Louvain, and in her name claimed the Meissen March.

 

Otto died in 1067 and was succeeded by Egbert I, but Dedi married his widow in 1069 and rebelled. In claiming the Meissen March through his wife, Dedi was challenging the royal prerogative in the marches. With him in his revolt was Albert II of Ballenstedt, who raided the monastery of Nienburg, a foundation of the family of Dedi's first wife. Adela of Louvain for her part aggressively supported her husband, so much so that Lambert of Hersfeld was compelled to call her a saevissima uxor. Adalbert of Bremen, one of the regents of the young king Henry IV, frustrated the Thuringian rebels and preserved the peace in Thuringia and Meissen. Dedi was confined to Lusatia, where he was succeeded by his eldest son, Dedi II.

 

Dedi left a daughter by his first wife, Adelaide, who married Ernest, Margrave of Austria. By Adela of Louvain, Dedi had two sons: Henry, who later ruled both Lusatia and Meissen, and Conrad, who died in battle with the Wends.