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Personal data Koenraad I "de Grote" von Meissen 

• He was born in the year 1098.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Koenraad I van Meißen (?, 1098 - Petersberg bei Halle, 5 februari 1157), bijg. de Grote, was de jongste zoon van graaf Thiemo I van Wettin en Ida van Northeim, zelf een dochter van Otto II van Northeim, hertog van Beieren.
  
  In 1124 had hij al Wettin en Camburg van zijn oudere broer Dedo IV geërfd. In 1130 werd hij beleend met het markgraafschap Meißen door keizer Lotharius III, met wie hij naar Italië was getrokken. In 1136 erfde hij Neder-Lausitz en in 1144-1145 Rochlitz en Opper-Lausitz. In 1147 nam hij deel aan de kruistocht tegen de Wenden. In eigen land steunde hij de kolonisatie van de Oostelijke gebieden door de Vlamingen.
  
  Koenraad I geldt als de stichter van de Wettinse macht in Meißen.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  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, 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 fortressess 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
  
  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.

• He died on February 5, 1157 in Petersberg bei Halle, he was 59 years old.
• A child of Thiemo "de Heldhaftige" van Wettin
• This information was last updated on February 4, 2013.

Household of Koenraad I "de Grote" von Meissen

He is married to Luitgard van Elchingen-Ravenstein.

They got married in the year 1119, he was 21 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Frederik I van Brehna  
2. Adela von Meissen   
3. Bertha von Meissen  
4. Gertrud von Meissen  
5. Hendrik von Meissen  
6. Oda von Meissen  
7. Sophie von Meissen  
8. Agnes II von Quedlinburg  
9. Dietrich I von Lusatia  1118-1185
10. Otto II "de Rijke" van Meissen  1125-1190 
11. Dedo III van Lausitz  1130-1190 

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