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Personal data Bernard II van Saksen-Billung 

• He was born in the year 990.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Bernhard II van Saksen (ca. 990 - 29 juni 1059) was hertog van Saksen. Hij was de zoon van hertog Bernhard I van Saksen en Hildegarde van Stade.
  
  In 1011 volgde hij zijn vader op als hertog en erfde dienst functies als voogd van Lüneburg, Werden, Möllenbeck, Minden, Herford, Kemnade en Fischbeck. In 1018 bemiddelde Bernhard de vrede van Bautzen (stad) tussen Duitsland en Polen. Hij streed vooral tegen de Wenden en de Friezen. Bernhard stond op gespannen voet met Hendrik III vanwege diens pogingen om het bestuur te centraliseren. Bernhard wist juist de autonomie van Saksen op het gebied van wetgeving te herstellen. In 1045 bouwde hij een kasteel in Hamburg. Bernhard werd begraven in de Sint Michaeliskerk te Lüneburg.

• (Geschiedenis) .Source 2

  Bernard II (c. 995 – 29 June 1059) was the Duke of Saxony (1011–1059), the third of the Billung dynasty, a son of Bernard I and Hildegard. 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 Emperor Henry II and he accompanied him into Poland and negotiated the treaty of Bautzen of 1018. In 1019–1020, he revolted and gained the recognition of the tribal laws of Saxony, something his father had just failed to do. He returned then to war with the Slavs (Obodrites and Lutici) and drew them into his sphere of power and influence through their leader, Godescalc (Gottschalk).
  
  He supported Conrad II in 1024 and his son Henry III, though he began to fear the latter for his closeness to the Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen, an inveterate enemy of the dukes of Saxony. Though he was a critical ally of the Danes, so fundamental to 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.
  Issue of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony and Eilika of Schweinfurt
  
  Bernard II, Duke of Saxony married to Eilika of Schweinfurt, daughter of Henry of Schweinfurt. They had:
  
  Gertrude of Saxony (c. 1030 – August 4, 1113), married: Floris I, Count of Holland, married (secondly): Robert I, Count of Flanders
  Ordulf, Duke of Saxony (c. 1020 – March 28, 1072), married: Ulfhilde or Wulfhilde of Norway (c. 1023 – May 24, 1070), daughter of Saint & King Olaf II (St.Olaf) of Norway & Astrid of Sweden
  Hermann
  Ida of Saxony, married: Albert III, Count of Namur.

• He died on June 29, 1059, he was 69 years old.
• He is buried in Lüneburg, Sint Michaeliskerk.
• A child of Bernard I van Saksen-Billung and Hildegard van Stade
• This information was last updated on November 20, 2012.

Household of Bernard II van Saksen-Billung

He is married to Eilica van Schweinfurt.

They got married in the year 1020, he was 30 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Herman van Saksen-Billung  -1086
2. Ordulf van Saksen-Billung  1022-1072 
3. Geertruid von Saksen-Billung  1030-1113 
4. Ida van Saksen-Billung  1035-1107 
5. Hedwig van Saksen-Billung  1045-1112 

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