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Dietrich von Haldensleben

Birth
Wichmannsburg, Landkreis Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Death
25 Aug 985 (aged 49–50)
Burial
Quedlinburg, Landkreis Harz, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Add to Map
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Birth date approx. Also known as Theoderich or Theodoric.
Margrave of the Nordmark (Northern March) from 965 until his death.

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. A henchman of the royal Ottonian dynasty, Dietrich in 953 supported King Otto I of Germany against his revolting son Duke Liudolf of Swabia.

Dietrich married a woman of unknown name and they had the following children :

Bernard I of Haldensleben
Oda, Duchess of Poland
Mathilda of Haldensleben
Theutberga (Thietburga), Countess of Wettin.

C.Smith
Birth date approx. Also known as Theoderich or Theodoric.
Margrave of the Nordmark (Northern March) from 965 until his death.

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. A henchman of the royal Ottonian dynasty, Dietrich in 953 supported King Otto I of Germany against his revolting son Duke Liudolf of Swabia.

Dietrich married a woman of unknown name and they had the following children :

Bernard I of Haldensleben
Oda, Duchess of Poland
Mathilda of Haldensleben
Theutberga (Thietburga), Countess of Wettin.

C.Smith


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