Hermann Billung (900 or 912 – 27 March 973) was the margrave of the Billung March from 936 until his death. The first of the Saxon House of Billung, Hermann...

of a Slavic confederacy in a revolt against the Germans, especially Herman Billung, Duke of Saxony. In 955 Nako and Stoignew were defeated at the Battle...

connive against Christianity and the bishops. According to Helmold: Duke Herman Billung [actually Duke Bernard I] promised a niece of his to Mstivoj [or Mstivoj...

river Scheldt. In 963, Godfrey married Mathilda of Saxony, daughter of Herman Billung, duke of Saxony and right hand of the emperor. She had previously been...

Duke of Saxony between 973 and 1011, the second of the Billung dynasty, a son of Duke Herman and Oda. He extended his father's power considerably. He...

to Baldwin III, Count of Flanders. Matilda was the daughter of Hermann Billung. She first married Baldwin III, count of Flanders. They had: Arnulf II...

Arnulf of Bavaria and Herman of Swabia paying homage to him. He appoints Hermann Billung as princeps militiae or "Markgraf" in the Billung March with orders...

punishment and subjugation of pagan tribes. Emperor Otto I's lieutenants, Herman Billung and Gero, harassed Slavic settlers beginning in the 940s. As part of...

Hirmina, Hermena. Herman I (archbishop of Cologne) (d. 924) Herman I, Duke of Swabia (d. 949) Hermann Billung Duke of Saxony (d. 973) Herman II, Duke of Swabia...

Eckard I of Meissen and his wife Swanehilde, a daughter of Margrave Hermann Billung. On 30 April 1002 his father was murdered at the Kaiserpfalz of Pöhlde...

843–880, Wichman II 892–932, Ekbert, also known as Egbert Billung 932–938, Wichman I, 936?-973, Herman I ?-1044, Rudolf von Werl 1047–1057, Bruno, expands middle...

Verden. Bruno was appointed to succeed Bishop Amelung, brother of Hermann Billung, in 962. Bruno is best known for his refusal to allow the burial in the...

of Billung. He was a brother of Amelung, Bishop of Verden, and Herman, Duke of Saxony. In 938, Wichmann rebelled because his younger brother Herman had...

He was the son of Baldwin III of Flanders and Mathilde Billung of Saxony, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony. His father Baldwin III died in 962, when...

about 1049, then one of the most influential Saxon nobles along with the Billung duke Bernard II and the Udonid counts of Stade. After the death of the...

margrave the next year. Lothair initially placed himself in opposition to the Billung family and Adalbert of Bremen. Adalbert had won great influence over the...

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...

Behrends (1907–1948), German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes Hermann Billung, a Margrave of Saxony Hermann Bondi (1919–2005), Anglo–Austrian mathematician...

of the Saxon margrave Dietrich of Haldensleben who secondly married the Billung duke Ordulf of Saxony upon Count Frederick's death. Little is known of...

opposition from various local aristocrats. In 936, Otto appointed Hermann Billung as Margrave, granting him authority over a march north of the Elbe River...

about 960. He married Matilda, a daughter of the Saxon margrave Hermann Billung and widow of Count Baldwin III of Flanders. In 1012 his son Godfrey II...

to Reginar IV. In 963, he married Matilda, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony, of the Billung family, a widow of Baldwin III of Flanders. He had the following...

the assassination of his father in 1002, Eckard II and his elder brother Herman I ruled over the Ekkeharding allodial lands, while the Meissen margravial...

of Galbert of Bruges. Catholic University of America Press. de Tournai, Herman (1996). The restoration of the Monastery of Saint Martin's of Tournai. Translated...

the Prisoner, Count of Verdun, and Matilda, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony of the Billung family, and a widow of Baldwin III of Flanders. Frederick...

bank of the lower Elbe, next to the land of Wichmann the Younger of the Billung dynasty, suggesting that she might have been a daughter of his brother...

(Herbertien) 910/15 934 10 October 960 Arnulf I Matilda Billung of Saxony Herman, Duke of Saxony (Billung) 935/45 951/59 958 husband's join rule with father...

Saxony, the Ascanians became heirs to half of the property of the House of Billung, former dukes of Saxony. Otto's son, Albert the Bear, became, with the...

Margrave of Meissen by his wife Suanhilde (in turn daughter of Hermann Billung, Margrave of Saxony), Oda belonged to one of the most distinguished and...

with the opposition of part of the Saxon nobility, including the House of Billung, who maintained good relations and were in part relatives of Bolesław I...