Count in Eilenburg
Count in Hassegau and Siusli
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 1034.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Pätzold. The Annales Hildesheimenses (p. 39) give the date of Dietrich's murder as 13 Kal. Decembris.
Relationships
Father: Dedo I, count of Merseburg.
This relationship is given by Blaschke and by Pätzold. It is recorded in the Genealogia Wettinensis (p. 227).
Mother: Thietburga.
This relationship is given by Blaschke and by Pätzold. It is recorded in the Genealogia Wettinensis (p. 227).
Spouse: Mathilde von Meißen.
This relationship is given by Blaschke and by Pätzold. It is recorded in the Genealogia Wettinensis (p. 227).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Pätzold.)
Friedrich (died 18 April 1084), imperial chancellor, bishop of Münster.
Dedo (II) (died October 1075), margrave of Lower Lusatia, married (1) Oda der Ostmark; married (2) Adela de Louvain.
Thiemo (died after about 1101) married Ida von Northeim.
Gero married Bertha.
Konrad, count of Wettin, married Othilde von Katlenburg.
Rikdag.
Ida von Eilenburg married Spytihněv II, duke of the Bohemians.
Evidence
from the Genealogia Wettinensis:
...[Dedo] [d]uxit preterea uxorem Thibergam, filiam Tiderici marchionis, genuitque ex ea filium nomine Tidericum....filius autem Tidericus comitatum patris et omne beneficium dono regis obtinuit….Accepit itaque Tidericus comes uxorem filiam Ekkehardi marchionis, qui in regia curte que Polite dicitur interfectus est, Machtildem nomine, sororem Hermanni et Ekkehardi marchionis et Guntheri et ex matre Geronis marchionis...
...Genuit itaque Tidericus comes hos filios: Fridericum, Dedonem, Thiemonem, Geronem, Conradum, Riddagum, et filiam Hiddam.
References
Blaschke, K. "Dietrich II. von Wettin" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 3 (Stuttgart: 1986).
“Genealogia Wettinensis” in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptorum Tomus XXIII. pp. 226-230.
Pätzold, Stefan. Die frühen Wettiner: Adelsfamilie und Hausüberlieferung bis 1221 (Bӧhlau, 1997).