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Magnus (c. 1045 – 23 August 1106) was the duke of Saxony from 1072 to 1106. [ 1 ] Eldest son and successor of Ordulf and Wulfhild of Norway , he was the last member of the House of Billung .
Otto was the son-in-law of Duke Magnus Billung and the father of later Duke, Albert the Bear. House of Mansfeld; Hoyer I, Count of Mansfeld 1115 Appointed by Emperor Henry V in opposition to Duke Lothar. Welf Dynasty Henry the Proud: 4 December 1137 – 20 October 1139 Son-in-law of Lothar; also duke of Bavaria: Ascanian Dynasty Albert the Bear
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 [2]
1011: Duke Bernhard I Billung dies; his son Bernhard II becomes duke. 1042: Ordulf Billung, son of Bernhard II, marries Wulfhild, the half-sister of King Magnus of Denmark and Norway. Danes and Saxons fight against the Wends. 1059: Ordulf Billung becomes duke after the death of his father. 1072: Magnus Billung becomes duke. 1106: Duke Magnus ...
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.
Eilika of Saxony (c. 1080 – 16 January 1142) [1] was a daughter of Magnus, Duke of Saxony and a member of the Billung dynasty. Through marriage to Otto of Ballenstedt , she was countess of Ballenstedt.
A Pennsylvania museum has agreed to sell a 16th century portrait that once belonged to a Jewish family that was forced to part with it while fleeing Nazi Germany before World War II. The Allentown ...
Wulfhilde Billung of Saxony (1072 – 29 December 1126) was the eldest daughter of Magnus, Duke of Saxony and his wife, Sophia of Hungary. In about 1095 she married Duke Henry IX of Bavaria. [1] As a result of this marriage, part of the Billung possessions came into the hands of the House of Guelph. They had the following children: Henry X [1]