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Birth:          1027 of Tulln, Niedereosterriech, Austria
Death:          10 Jun 1075 Homburg
Cause of Death: slain
Burial:         Melk

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest,_Margrave_of_Austria
Ernest (German: Ernst, 1027 – 10 June 1075), known as Ernest the Brave (Ernst der 
Tapfere), was the Margrave of Austria from 1055 to his death in 1075. He was a 
member of the House of Babenberg.[1]
Life[edit]

He was born to Margrave Adalbert of Austria and his wife Frozza Orseolo, daughter of 
Doge Otto Orseolo of Venice. He increased the territory of his margraviate by 
amalgamating the Bohemian and Hungarian frontier marches up to the Thaya, March 
and Leitha rivers in what is today Lower Austria. In his time, the colonisation of the 
remote Waldviertel region was begun by his ministeriales, the Kuenring knights.

Ernest received his epithet due to his fighting against King Béla I of Hungary and his 
son Géza I on behalf of their rival Solomon according to the chronicler Lambert of 
Hersfeld. In the commencing Investiture Controversy, he sided with King Henry IV of 
Germany and battled against the Saxons, dying at the Battle of Langensalza.

Marriage and children[edit]

In 1060 Ernest married Adelaide of Eilenburg (1040 – 26 January 1071), daughter of 
the Wettin margrave Dedi I of Lusatia, who gave him three children:
Leopold II, Margrave of Austria (1050 – 1095)
Justitia (d. 1120/22), married Count Otto II of Wolfratshausen
Adalbert of Pernegg, Count of Bogen

In 1072 he secondly married Swanhild, daughter of Count Sighard VII in the Hungarian 
March.

Parents
____ Adalbert (Adelbert) "the Victorious" (ABT  985 - 26 May 1055)
____ Adelaide [chg from Frozza Orseola] (1015 - 17 Feb 1071)

Siblings
____ Ernest "the Valiant" "the Bold" (1027 - 10 Jun 1075)

Marriage To VON EILENBURG Adelaide (Adelheid) (Maud) (ABT 1030 - 26 Jan 1071)
    m. 1060 

Notes

Parents
____ Dedi (Dedo) (Dedon) II (ABT 1006 - Oct 1075)
VON DER OSTMARK Oda (ABT 1001 - )

Children by VON EILENBURG Adelaide (Adelheid) (Maud) ABT 1030 - 26 Jan 1071
____ Leopold II "der Schone" ("the Handsome") (ABT 1060 - 12 Oct 1095)

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