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Bernard II (c. 995 – 29 June 1059) was the Duke of Saxony between 1011 and 1059, the third of the Billung dynasty as a son of Bernard I [1] and Hildegard. Besides his position in Saxony, 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.
Eilika of Schweinfurt (c. 1005 – after 10 December 1059) was Duchess consort of Saxony. She came from a Bavarian noble family as the daughter of Margrave Henry of Schweinfurt and Gerberga of Gleiberg (970 – aft. 1036). [1] [2] Around 1020, Eilika married Bernard II, Duke of Saxony and was mother of: [1] [2] Ordulf, Duke of Saxony (1022 ...
Bernard II of Saxe-Lauenburg (German: Bernhard II.; c. 1385/1392 – 16 July 1463) was a member of the House of Ascania and Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg from 1426 to 1463. His full title was Duke of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia, however only ruling the branch duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg between 1426 and 1463.
William II, Elector of Hesse (Hesse-Kassel) 6 September 1804 23 March 1825 20 September 1866 husband's abdication: 4 January 1888 Bernhard II: Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg: Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (Hohenlohe-Langenburg) 7 July 1839 23 October 1858 20 September 1866 husband's accession: 30 March 1872 George II: Charlotte of ...
Bernard I was treated as an equal of his legal lord, the Duke of Saxony. Then Bernard II, in a 1028 letter of the Emperor Conrad II concerning the slaves of the church of Verden, which was located in the provinces "to whom we [Conrad] have committed [to the Bernards] the rule." [3] He married a daughter of Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev.
Bernard II of Auvergne or Bernard Plantapilosa (died 885) Bernard II, Count of Laon (c. 845–<893) Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (died 1059) Bernard II Tumapaler of Gascony (1020 – after 1064) Bernard II of Besalú (died 1100) Bernard II de Balliol (died 1190) Bernard II, Lord of Lippe (c. 1140–1224) Bernhard II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (c ...
Margaret of Saxony may refer to: Margaret of Saxony (d. 1429), wife of Bernard I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg; Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony (1416–1486), wife of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony; Margaret of Saxony (1444–1498), daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony and became the Abbess of Seusslitz
Their son Magnus succeeded Ordulf as Duke of Saxony. [3] Ordulf's second wife, Gertrude of Haldensleben, [4] daughter of a Count Conrad, was imprisoned in Mainz in 1076 and died 21 February 1116. Their son Bernard died after a fall from a horse in Lüneburg on 15 July of an unknown year. Ordulf is buried in the Church of St. Michael in Lüneburg.