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Birth:          ABT 1045 of Saxe, Saxony
Death:          23 Aug 1106 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus,_Duke_of_Saxony
Magnus (c.?1045 – 23 August 1106) was the duke of Saxony from 1072 to 1106. 
Eldest son and successor of Ordulf and Wulfhild of Norway, he was the last member of 
the House of Billung.
Rebellion[edit]

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 safe-conduct to and from the place of meeting. When 
this was refused he declined to appear, and was consequently deprived of Bavaria, 
while his Saxon estates were plundered. The rebellion was put down in 1071, and 
Magnus was captured. Magnus was imprisoned 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.

First battle of Langensalza[edit]

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. After being released again, he joined Rudolf von Rheinfeld, duke 
of Swabia and anti-king, 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.

Legacy[edit]

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), the daughter of Béla I of Hungary, going thus 
to the house of Welf, via Wulfhilde (1075–1126), who married Duke Henry IX of 
Bavaria and to the house of Ascania via Eilika (1080 – 16 January 1142), who married 
Count Otto of Ballenstedt.

Parents
____ Ordulph (Otto) (ABT 1022 - 28 Mar 1072)
OLAFSDOTTIR Ulfhild (Wulhilda0 (ABT 1020 - 2 May 1071)

Siblings
____ Magnus (ABT 1045 - 23 Aug 1106)

Marriage To OF HUNGARY Sophia (ABT 1041 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Bela I (ABT 1010 - 1063)
OF POLAND Richeza (Rixa) (22 Sep 1013 - 21 May 1075)

Children by OF HUNGARY Sophia ABT 1041 - 
OF SAXONY Ulfhild (Wolfhildis) (1072 - 29 Dec 1126)

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