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Personal data Thietmar I von Meissen 

• He was born in the year 925.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Thietmar (III) (c. 925 – 3 August 979) was the Margrave of Meissen from 970 until his death. Thietmar was the eldest of three brothers, all sons of Hidda, sister of Gero the Great, and Count Christian of Thuringia. His brothers were Gero, Archbishop of Cologne, and Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark.
  
  In 951, he was first recorded as Count of Gau Serimunt, following his father Christian. Between 951 and 978, he was also Count of Schwabengau. After the death of his uncle Gero in 965, Thietmar inherited large parts of whose Marca Geronis.
  
  He married Schwanehilde (Suanhild), daughter of Margrave Hermann Billung, and had one son: Gero II, who in 993 would become Margrave of the Saxon Eastern March. On 29 August 970, Thietmar and his brother Gero founded the abbey of Thankmarsfelde,[1] which between 971 and 975 became a royal monastery. It was moved to Nienburg on the Saale river at the mouth of the Bode in 975 and that is where Thietmar is buried. In the years which followed, Thietmar and Gero made further donations of land to the monastery.[2]
  
  Thietmar was succeeded by Rikdag. His widow Suanhilde married Rikdag's successor Eckard I.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Thietmar I. (* um 920; † zwischen 10. Mai und 14. Juli 978[1], nach anderen Quellen † 3. August nach 979) war seit 944 Graf im Schwabengau, seit 965 Markgraf der Nordmark, seit etwa 970 Graf im Gau Serimunt und von 976 bis 978 (während der Verbannung Gunthers von Merseburg) Markgraf von Meißen und Merseburg.
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  Thietmar war Sohn des Markgrafen Christian im Gau Serimunt, Bruder des Erzbischofs Gero von Köln und über seine Mutter Hitta Neffe von des Markgrafen der Sächsischen Ostmark Gero I.. Nach dem Tod seines Onkels gelangte Thietmar I. zu Macht und Würden, da er große Teile von dessen riesiger Mark erbte, so insbesondere den Hardagau (im Raum Halberstadt), den Schwaben- und Nordthüringgau und den Hassegau.
  
  Er heiratete Suanhilde (* 945/955; † 26. November 1014), eine Tochter Hermann Billungs aus der Familie der Billunger. Aus dieser Ehe stammte Markgraf Gero II.
  
  Thietmar wurde bestattet im Kloster in Nienburg.
  
  Nach Thietmars Tod heiratete Suanhilde vor dem Jahre 1000 Ekkehard I. von Meißen.

• He died on August 3, 979, he was 54 years old.
• A child of Christiaan van Serimunt and Hidda van Merseburg
• This information was last updated on April 1, 2013.

Household of Thietmar I von Meissen

He is married to Suanhilde van Saksen-Billung.

They got married before 979.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Gero von Lausitz  975-1015 

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