Magnus Sachsen BILLUNG

Bef 1045 - 1106  (> 61 years)

• Name	Magnus Sachsen BILLUNG
  Born	Bef 1045	Saxony, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Name	Magnus of Brunswick SACHSEN
  Died	23 Aug 1106
  Person ID	I1176	Conrad Jenssen Family Tree
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Otto (Ordulf) Duke OF BRUNSWICK BILLUNG,   b. Abt 1020, Sachsen, Tyskland ,   d. 28 Mar 1072, Saxony, Germany  (Age 52 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Ulfhild Olavsdtr av NORGE,   b. Abt 1020,   d. 24 Apr 1070  (Age 50 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	Nov 1042
  Family ID	F14	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sophie of HUNGARY,   b. Abt 1044, Esztergom, Komarom-Esztergom, Hungary ,   d. 18 Jun 1095  (Age 51 years)
  Married	1071
  Children	1. Eilika af SACHSEN,   b. Abt 1080, Kriechen, Sachsen ,   d. 16 Jan 1142, Ballensted, Anhalt, Tyskland, Germany  (Age 62 years)  [Natural]  [Related]
  Family ID	F143	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Magnus, Duke of Saxony From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Magnus (c. 1045–23 August 1106) was the duke of Saxony from 1072 to 1106. Eldest son and successor of Ordulf and Wulfhild, a princess of Norway, he was the last member of the House of Billung. In 1070, before he was duke, he joined Otto of Nordheim, duke of Bavaria, in rebellion against the Salian Emperor Henry IV. Otto was accused of being privy to a plot to murder the king, and it was decided he should submit to the ordeal of battle with his accuser. The duke asked for a safe-conduct to and from the place of meeting, and when this was refused he declined to appear, and was consequently deprived of Bavaria, while his Saxon estates were plundered. The rebellion lasted until it was put down in 1071 and Magnus was captured. Magnus was put up in the castle of Harzburg, the imposing imperial fortress which so inflamed the Saxon freemen. He was not released upon his accession to the Saxon duchy until seventy Swabians captured in Lüneburg were released. In 1073, Harzburg was destroyed and the anger of Henry aroused. He renewed the conflict with Saxony once more. At the First Battle of Langensalza in 1075, Magnus was captured again. Released again, he joined Rudolf von Rheinfeld, duke of Swabia and antiking, and was present at the Battle of Mellrichstadt (7 August 1078), where he saved Rudolf's life. However, he and the Saxons never fully supported the Swabian Rudolf and he reconciled with Henry, even fighting the Slavs with the royal forces. Magnus was an embittered enemy of the archbishop of Bremen, Adalbert, whose see he afflicted with repeated plundering raids. In 1106, the same year as Henry IV, he died. His duchy was given to Lothair of Supplinburg and his lands were split between his daughters by Sophia (married 1071), daughter of Béla I of Hungary, going thusly to the houses of Welf and Ascania, for Wulfhilde (1075 – 1126) married Duke Henry IX of Bavaria and Eilika (1080 – 16 January 1142) married Count Otto of Ballenstedt.