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Bernhard II. Billung von Sachsen
b.995
Facts and Events
| Name[5] |
Bernhard II. Billung von Sachsen |
| Alt Name[1][2][3] |
Barnard II _____, Duke of Saxony |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
995 |
House of Billung |
| Title (nobility)[5] |
From 1011 to 1059 |
Herzog von Sachsen |
| Marriage |
Abt 1020 |
Sachsen, Germanyto Eilika von Schweinfurt |
| Alt Marriage |
1050 |
to Eilika von Schweinfurt |
| Death[1][5] |
29 Jun 1059 |
Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Germany |
| Burial[5] |
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Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, GermanySt.-Michaelis-Kirche |
| Reference Number? |
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Q435137? |
| Title (nobility)[5] |
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Vogt zu Lüneburg, Verden, Möllenbeck, Minden, Herford, Kemnade (Holzminden) und Fischbeck und besaß Grafenrechte bis nach Friesland hin |
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Bernard II (c. 995 – 29 June 1059) was the Duke of Saxony between 1011 and 1059, the third of the Billung dynasty as a son of Bernard I and Hildegard. Besides his position in Saxony, he had the rights of a count in Frisia.
Bernard expanded the powers of the duke in Saxony and is regarded as the greatest of the Billungers. He was originally a supporter of Holy Roman Emperor Henry II, and he accompanied him into Poland to negotiate the Peace of Bautzen of 1018. In 1019–1020, however, he revolted against Henry and gained the recognition of the tribal laws of Saxony, something his father had failed to do. He then returned to war with the Obodrites and Lutici (two Slavic tribes) and drew them into his sphere of influence through their leader Gottschalk.
He supported Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II in 1024 and Conrad's son Henry III, though he began to fear the latter for his closeness to the Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen, whom he considered a spy and inveterate enemy of the dukes of Saxony. Although he was a critical ally of the Danes, who provided fundamental support for Henry's wars in the Low Countries, Bernard was on the brink of rebellion until the death of Adalbert. The remainder of his reign, however, was quiet.
In 1045, he erected the Alsterburg in Hamburg. He died in 1059 and was succeeded without incident by his son Ordulf. He is buried in the Church of Saint Michael in Lüneburg.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bernard II, Duke of Saxony, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Turton, W. H. (William Harry). The Plantagenet ancestry, being tables showing over 7,000 of the ancestors of Elizabeth: (daughter of Edward IV and wife of Henry VIII the heiress of the Plantagenets; with preface, lists, notes and a complete index of about 2,700 entries and a reference for each. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950).
- ↑ Weis, Frederick Lewis; Walter Lee Sheppard; and David Faris. Ancestral roots of certain American colonists, who came to America before 1700: the lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and some of their descendants. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 7th Edition c1992)
149-22, 101-23, 164-23.
- BERNHARD (after 990-29 Jun 1059, bur Lüneburg St Michael), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Biographie auf Wikipedia DE, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
[[1]], gefunden 2015.
Bernhard II. (* nach 990; † 29. Juni 1059) aus der Familie der Billunger war seit dem Jahr 1011 Herzog in Sachsen. Er war der Sohn von Herzog Bernhard I. und Hildegard, einer Tochter des Grafen Heinrich I. „Der Kahle“ von Stade, und ein Enkel von Hermann Billung. Seine Geschwister waren: Imma, Godesti, Othelendis, Mathilde und Thietmar.
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