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Swanehilde of Saxony (also Suanehild , Suanhild , Swanhild , Schwanhild or Billung , born between 945 and 955, died 26 November 1014) was
Margravine of Meissen (r. 970-979 and before 1000–1014).
Family tree of
Hermann Billung , including Swanhilde ('Suanhild') of Saxony
Life
Swanehilde was born between 945 and 955 as a daughter of
Herman, Duke of Saxony , Margrave of the
Billung March and Oda.
In 970, she married
Thietmar I (died 979)
Margrave of Meissen . They had the following issue:
Gero II (970/975 - 1015), Graf im Hassegau and Markgraf der Lausitz who died in battle against the Poles.
After Thietmar's death she remarried
Ekkehard I who was murdered on 30 April 1002 in Pöhlde. They had seven children:
Liutgard (d. 1012), married Margrave
Werner of the Northern March
Herman I, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1038), married
Regelinda , daughter of King
Bolesław I Chrobry of Poland
Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen (d. 24 January 1046), married
Uta , sister of Count
Esico of Ballenstedt
Gunther (d. 1025), Archbishop of
Salzburg
Eilward (d. 1023),
Bishop of Meissen
Matilda, married
Dietrich II, Margrave of Lower Lusatia
Oda (d. after 1018), married King
Bolesław I Chrobry of Poland.
Swanehilde died on 26 November 1014. She was buried in the monastery of Jena and reburied after 1028 in the Church of St. George in
Naumburg .
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