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Birth:          1078 of Meissen, Dresden, Germany
Death:          5 Feb 1157 Kloster Petersberg bei Halle, Sachsen
Burial:         BEF 28 Feb 1157 Kloster Petersberg bei Halle, Sachsen

Notes
Count of the Groitsch-Rochlitz
divided his lands in 1156 among his five sons and becam a monk in the monastery of 
Petersburg near Halle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad,_Margrave_of_Meissen
Conrad, the Great (c.?1097 – 5 February 1157) was the Margrave of Meissen from 
1123 until his retirement in 1156. He was the son of Thimo I, Count of Wettin, Count 
of Brehna, of the House of Wettin and Ida, daughter of Otto of Nordheim. He was also 
Count of Wettin, Brehna and Camburg from before 1116.

In 1123, he became Count of Eilenburg. That same year, Lothair of Supplinburg, Duke 
of Saxony, appointed him Margrave of Meissen in opposition to Wiprecht von 
Groitzsch, the appointee of the Emperor Henry V. Lothair also named Albert the Bear 
Margrave of Lusatia, while Henry named Wiprecht to that march also. Wiprecht was 
unable to hold his own against his two opponents and in 1124 Conrad was securely in 
power in Meissen. In 1136, Lothair, then emperor, appointed him to Lusatia as well. 
Thereafter, Upper Lusatia remained a part of Meissen and the march of Lusatia was 
reduced to Lower Lusatia alone.

In 1143, Conrad became Count of Groitzsch and Rochlitz and Vogt of Chemnitz and 
Naumburg. In 1147, while Conrad III of Germany was away on the Second Crusade, 
Conrad the Great joined Henry the Lion, Adalbert of Salzwedel, Albert the Bear, and 
the Archbishops of Magdeburg and Bremen to organise a Crusade against the 
Obodrites and Wagri. In August, Conrad and Albert, with the bishops of Magdeburg, 
Havelburg, and Brandenburg, massed their forces at Magdeburg. The Obodrite prince 
Niklot and his fortresses of Dubin and Dimin were besieged. Both he and Pribislav, 
another Obodrite prince, were forced to accept Christianity and make peace.

In the following years, he founded the monastery of St Peter auf dem Lauterberg 
(Petersberg), to which he retired on 30 November 1156. He died and was buried there 
next to his wife, Luitgard (Lucarda) of Elchingen-Ravenstein, daughter of Adalbert, 
Count of Elchingen-Ravenstein and Bertha of Hohenstaufen, daughter of Frederick I, 
Duke of Swabia and Agnes of Germany.
Marriage and issue[edit]

Luitgard of Elchingen-Ravenstein, whom he had married before 1119, had blessed him 
with many children. His eldest surviving son, Otto II, Margrave of Meissen, succeeded 
him in Meissen, while his second surviving son, Dietrich I, succeeded in Lusatia. His 
son Henry I, Count of Wettin married Sophia of Sommerschenburg, Countess Palatine 
of Saxony, daughter of Count Fredrick II of Sommerschenburg and Countess Liutgard 
of Stade, queen dowager of Denmark.

His issue were:
Heinrich (i.e. Henry; died young)
Otto II
Dietrich I
Dedi III, Margrave of Lusatia
Henry I, Count of Wettin, married (1) Sophia of Sommerschenburg (d. 1189 or 1190), 
daughter of Count Fredrick II of Sommerschenburg, Count Palatine of Saxony and his 
wife Countess Liutgard of Stade (later queen of Denmark).
Frederick I of Brehna
Oda
Adela, Queen consort of Denmark
Bertha
Sophie
Gertrud
Agnes II, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg

Parents
____ Thiemo I (ABT 1020 - ABT 1091)
VON NORTHEIM Ida (ABT 1057 - )

Siblings
____ Konrad "der Grosse" (1078 - 5 Feb 1157)

Marriage To OF ELCHINGEN-RAVENSTEIN Luitgard (ABT 1100 - 19 Jun 1145)
    m. BEF 1119 

Notes


Children by OF ELCHINGEN-RAVENSTEIN Luitgard ABT 1100 - 19 Jun 1145
____ Dedo V "Der Fieste" (ABT 1130 - 16 Aug 1190)

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