Dietrich der Bedrängte von Meißen

• Preferred Name: Dietrich der Bedrängte von Meißen^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Hermann de Ravensberg
  
• Alternate Name: Dietrich von Meißen
  
• Alternate Name: Dietrich of Meissen von Wettin II
  
• Alternate Name: Dietrich II
  
• Alternate Name: Theodoric Margrave of Meissen I
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: 1221 in Dresden, Amt Dresden, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire at LATI: N1.0515 LONG: E3.74
  
• Markgraf: BET 1195 AND 1221
  
• Occupation: Graf von Ravensberg
  
• Death: 18 FEB 1221 in Saxony, Germany
  
• FSID: GNDW-WZC
  
• Nickname:
  
• Birth: 3 MAR 1162 in Meißen, Amt Meißen, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire at LATI: N1.1625 LONG: E3.4974
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Theodoric I (11 March 1162 - 18 February 1221), called the Oppressed (Dietrich der Bedrängte), was the Margrave of Meissen from 1198 until his death. He was the second son of Otto II, Margrave of Meissen and Hedwig of Brandenburg.
  
  «b»Biography«/b»
  Dietrich fell out with his brother, Albrecht the Proud as his mother persuaded his father to change the succession so that Dietrich was given the Margraviate of Meißen and Albrecht (although the older son) the Margraviate of Weißenfels. Albrecht took his father prisoner to try to make him return the succession to the way it had been. After Otto obtained his release by order of the emperor Frederick I, he had only just renewed the war when he died in 1190. Albrecht took back the Meißen margraviate from his brother. Dietrich attempted to regain the margraviate, supported by Landgraf Hermann I of Thuringia, whose daughter he was married to. In 1195, however, he left on a pilgrimage to Palestine.
  
  «b»Albrecht's Death«/b»
  After Albrecht's death in 1195, leaving no children, Meissen, with its rich mines, was seized by the emperor Henry VI as a vacant fief of the empire. Dietrich finally came into possession of his inheritance two years later on Henry's death.
  
  At the time of the struggle between the two rival kings Philip of Swabia and Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Phillip gave Dietrich the tenure of the march of Meißen again. After that time, Dietrich was on Phillip's side and remained true to the Staufer even after Phillip was murdered in 1208.
  
  Dietrich became caught up in dangerous disagreements with the city of Leipzig and the Meißen nobility. After a fruitless siege of Leipzig, in 1217 he agreed to a settlement but then took over the city by trickery, had the city walls taken down and built three castles of his own within the city, full of his own men.
  
  «b»Death«/b»
  Margrave Dietrich died on 18 February 1221, possibly poisoned by his doctor, instigated into doing so by the people of Leipzig and the dissatisfied nobility. He left behind a widow, Jutta of Thuringia, daughter of Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia. Some of his children had already died.
  
  «b»Marriages and issue
  Children from his marriage to Jutta of Thuringia, daughter of Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia:«/b»
  1.) Hedwig (d. 1249) married Count Dietrich V of Cleves (1185 - 1260)
  
  2.) Otto (d. before 1215)
  
  3.) Sophia (d. 1280) married Count Henry of Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 1262)
  
  4.) Jutta married Mestwin II, Duke of Pomerania
  
  5.) Henry the Illustrious (1218 - 1288) Margrave of Meissen
  
  «b»Children from extramarital liaisons:«/b»
  1.) Konrad
  
  2.) Dietrich II (not the same as Dietrich von Kittlitz)
  
  3.) Heinrich
  
  === Gf. v. Ravensberg, gibt 1214 Bielefeld S ===
  Gf. v. Ravensberg, gibt 1214 Bielefeld Stadtrecht
  
  === Gf. v. Weißenfels 1190-1195, Markgf. v. ===
  Gf. v. Weißenfels 1190-1195, Markgf. v. Meißen 1197, v. d. Niederlausitz 1210
  
  === *Der Bedraengte* ===
  *Der Bedraengte*
  
  === Still Living. ===
  Still Living.
  
  === !Europaasche Stammtaflen neue folge (552 ===
  !Europaasche Stammtaflen neue folge (552) vol 8 t99;
  
  === !#18-V1-T43; !#552-v1-t42; ===
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  === ?? Line 262967: (New PAF RIN=17449) 1 NA ===
  ?? Line 262967: (New PAF RIN=17449) 1 NAME Dietrich "Der Bedrangte", Margrave Of/MEISSEN/ ?? Line 262975: (New PAF RIN=17449) 1 BURI 2 PLAC Altzelle Bei Nossen, Dresden, Saxony

• m. 1195

1. Hedwig von Meißen, b. 1205 in Meißen, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany     d. 2 FEB 1249 in Bedburg, Kleve, Rheinprovinz, Preußen, Deutschland
2. Heinrich von Meissen III Margrave of Meissen Landgrave of Thuringia, b. 1215 in Landkreis Meißen, Sachsen, Alemania     d. 15 de febrero de 1288 in Dresden, Sachsen, Alemania
3. Sophia Wettin von Meissen, b. 1214 in Meißen, Kreis Meißen, Sachsen, Deutschland     d. 17 MAR 1280 in Germany

1. Title: Wikipedia - Dietrich der Bedrängte von Meißen
   Publication: Name: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_der_Bedr%C3%A4ngte;