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Birth:          ABT  930 
Death:          25 Aug  985 Magdenburg

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_of_Haldensleben,_Margrave_of_the_Nordmark
Dietrich (Theoderich, Theodoric) of Haldensleben (died 25 August 985) was a Saxon 
count in the Schwabengau, later also in the Nordthüringgau and the Derlingau, who 
was the first Margrave of the Northern March from 965 until the Great Slav Rising of 
983. He also bore the title of a dux (duke) in contemporary sources.

Life[edit]

Probably a member of the Saxon House of Billung, Dietrich was the ancestor of a 
comital branch named after the residence of Haldensleben in Eastphalia. He may have 
been a son of Count Wichmann the Elder and Frederuna, sister of Queen Matilda, and 
held large estates along the Elbe and Saale rivers.

A henchman of the royal Ottonian dynasty, Dietrich in 953 supported King Otto I of 
Germany against his revolting son Duke Liudolf of Swabia. He also fought - without 
success - against the Polabian Slavs settling on the Elbe river at the eastern rim of his 
Eastphalian home territory. In return Otto, Holy Roman Emperor since 962, appointed 
him margrave in the Northern March beyond the Elbe, the largest part of the former 
Marca Geronis after its dissolution upon the death of Margrave Gero in 965.

Dietrich was a harsh overlord. Together with Archbishop Adalbert of Magdeburg he 
enforced the Christianization of the local Slavic population and was instrumental in the 
execution of his rival Gero, Count of Alsleben. Owing to his pride as stated by the 
chronicler Thietmar of Merseburg (he allegedly once refused the marriage of one of his 
kinswoman to a Slav "dog"), in 983 the Slavic Lutici and Hevelli tribes sacked the 
lands of the eastern bishoprics of Havelberg and Brandenburg and reverted to 
paganism. According to the medieval chroniclers Adam of Bremen and Annalista Saxo, 
Dietrich was deprived of his march in the same year, though he later again appeared 
as a Saxon general and supported the minor king King Otto III of Germany against the 
claims to the throne raised by the Bavarian duke Henry the Wrangler.

According to the Annals of Quedlinburg, Dietrich died on 25 August 985.

Issue[edit]

Dietrich married a woman of unknown name and they had the following children:
Bernard, Margrave of the Nordmark
Oda of Haldensleben, married Mieszko I, Duke of Poland
Mathilda von Haldensleben, married the Hevelli chieftain Pribislaw (killed in battle 28 
December 994), son of Tugimir, Prince of the Hevelli, who was in turn son of Baçlabic 
(Václav), Prince of the Stodorini
Thietberga, married Dedo I, Count of Wettin.

Dietrich was succeed as Margrave of the Nordmark by Lothar I in 983. His son 
Bernard became margrave in 1009.

Parents
____ Benno (ABT  890 - )
----- ----- ()

Siblings
OF HADLENSLEBEN Dietrich (ABT  930 - 25 Aug  985)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
VON HADENSLABEN Thietburga (ABT  962 - )
____ Bernhard I (EST  965 - 1051)

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