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Personal data Wichmann III van Wetigau 

• He was born in the year 820.
• (Levens event) .Source 1

  The House of Billung was a dynasty of Saxon noblemen in the 9th through 12th centuries.
  
  The first known member of the house was Count Wichmann, mentioned as a Billung in 811. Oda, the wife of Count Liudolf, oldest known member of the Liudolfing House, was also a Billung.
  
  In the 10th century, the property of the family was centered in the Bardengau around Lüneburg and they controlled the march named after them. In the middle of the 10th century, when the Saxon dukes of the House of Liudolfing had also become German kings, King Otto the Great entrusted more and more of his ducal authority to Hermann Billung. For five generations, the House of Billung ruled the Duchy of Saxony.
  
  The house became extinct when Duke Magnus died in 1106 without sons; the family's property was divided between his two daughters. His daughter Wulfhilde married Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, a member of the House of Welf; his daughter Eilika married Otto, Count of Ballenstedt, a member of the House of Ascania. As a consequence, for the following decades control of Saxony was contested between the Welfs and Ascanians.
  
  The Billung dukes of Saxony were:
  
  Hermann, died 973
  Bernard I, died 1011
  Bernard II, died 1059
  Ordulf, died 1072
  Magnus, died 1106

• He died on February 2, 880 in Saksen, in de strijd tegen de Noormannen, he was 60 years old.Source 2

  Oorzaak: gevallen in de strijd tegen de Noormannen

• A child of Wichman II Billung and NN van Ijsselgouw
• This information was last updated on April 23, 2013.

Household of Wichmann III van Wetigau

He is married to Imhild.

They got married in the year 855, he was 35 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Egbert I van Wetigau  855-932 
2. Adelbert Billung  860-925
3. Richild Billung  865-925

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