House of Ascania
Adalbert von Ballenstedt, Vogt von Hagenrode und Nienburg; m. Hidda (dau.of Mkgf Hodo von der Nordmark, Gf im Nordthüringen); They had issue:
- A1. Gf Esiko im Schwabengau u.im Gau Serimunt, founded the abbey of Ballenstedt, +ca 1060; m.Mathilde of Swabia (*ca 988 +29.7.1031/32), dau.of Hermann II of Swabia
- B1. Adalbert II, Gf im Nordthuringgau, Gf von Ballenstedt (1069-76/83), +murdered 1076/83, bur kloster Ballenstedt; m.Adelheid (*ca 1055 +28.3.1100), heiress of Orlamünde, dau.of Gf Otto I von Meissen
- C1. Otto "der Reiche", Gf von Ballenstedt, Duke of Saxony (1112-23), *ca 1070/73, +9.2.1123; m.Eilika of Saxony (*1080 +12.1.1142)
- D1. Albrecht "der Bäre", Gf von Ballenstedt, Herr der Mark Lausitz, Margrave of Saxony (1124-38), Duke of Saxony (1137-41), Margrave of Brandenburg (1140-70), Mkgf von Stade, Gf von Aschersleben, *1096/1100, +18.11.1170; m.1124 Sofie von Winzenburg (+25.3.1160)
- E1. Margrave Otto I of Brandenburg (1170-84), *1126/28, +7.3.1184; 1m: 6.1.1148 Judith of Poland (+1171/75); 2m: 1176 Adelaide of Holland (+after 1205)
- F1. Mgve Otto II of Brandenburg (1184-1205), +4.7.1205
- F2. Gf Heinrich von Tangermünde, +after 15.4.1192
- F3. Mgve Albrecht II of Brandenburg (1205-20), *ca 1174, +25.2.1220; m.VIII.1205 Mathilde von Landsberg (+1255), dau.of Mkgf Konrad von der Lausitz
- G1. Mgve Johann I of Brandenburg (1220-56), *1208/13, +4.4.1266; 1m: 1233/35 Sofie of Denmark (*1217 +2.11.1247); 2m: 7.5.1255 Jutta of Saxony (+23.12.1287)
- H1. Mgve Johann II of Brandenburg (1267-81), *1236, +Tangermünde 10.9.1281, bur Chorin; m.1258/62 Hedwig von Werle (+9.9.1287)
- H2. Mgve Otto IV of Brandenburg (1267-1308/9), +XI/XII.1308; 1m: 1262 Heilwig of Holstein; 2m: 1308 Jutta von Henneberg (*1272, +25.4.1317)
- H3. Mgve Konrad of Brandenburg (1267-1304), +Schwedt 15.3./21.5.1304; m.Zantoch 1260 Konstanze of Poland (+8.10.1281)
- H4. Erich, Archbishop of Magdeburg (1283-95), +Burg Grabow bei Magdeburg 21.12.1295
- H5. Albrecht, +1292/93
- H6. Hermann, +1291, Elekt of Havelburg 1290
- H7. [2m.] Mgve Heinrich I of Brandenburg (after 1293-1318), *1260, +14.2.1318; m.1298/1303 Agnes of Bavaria (+22.7.1345)
- H8. [1m.] Helene, +7.6.1305, bur Weissenfels; m.Ldgve Dietrich von Landsberg (*1242 +1285)
- H9. [2m.] Mechtild, *1257, +shortly before 1284; m.before 14.12.1278 Duke Bogislaw IV of Pomerania (+19.2.1309)
- H10. [2m.] Agnes, *1257, +29.9..1304; 1m: Schleswig 11.11.1273 King Erik V of Denmark (*1249 +1286); 2m: 1293 Gf Gerhard II of Holstein (+1312)
- G2. Mgve Otto III of Brandenburg (1220-67), +Brandenburg an der Havel 9.10.1267; m.before VI.1243 Beatrix of Bohemia (+25.5.1286)
- H1. Mgve Johann III of Brandenburg (after 1267-68), *6.4.1244, +after tournament at Merseburg 8.4.1268
- H2. Mgve Otto V of Brandenburg (after 1267-99), +23/24.7.1298; m.Freyburg 22.10.1268 Judith von Henneberg (+by 13.9.1295/1327)
- H3. Albrecht III, Mgve of Brandenburg (1269?-1300), *ca 1250, +4.12.1300; m.1272 Mathilde of Denmark (+1299/1300)
- H4. Otto VI, Margrave of Brandenburg (after 1280-86), *3/17.11.1264, +Lehnin 6.7.1303; m.Vienna II.1270 Heilwig von Habsburg (+1285/86)
- H5. Kunigunde, +after 8.6.1292; 1m: 25.10.1264 Pr Duke Bela of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia (+1269); 2m: 10.1.1278 Duke Walram V of Limburg (+1279)
- H6. Mathilde, +20.12.1316; m.before 16.5.1267 Duke Barnim I of Pomerania (+13.11.1278)
- G3. Elisabeth, +1237; m.before 16.5.1228 Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (+1247)
- G4. Mathilde, +10.6.1261; m.1228 Duke Otto I von Braunschweig (*1204 +1252)
- G5. Jutta
- E2. Gf Hermann I von Orlamünde (1142-76), +1176; for his descendants click HERE
- E3. Siegfried, Bp of Brandenburg (1173-80), Archbishop of Bremen (1180-84), +24.10.1184
- E4. Heinrich, a canon in Magdeburg, +1185
- E5. Albrecht, Gf von Ballenstedt, +after 6.12.1172; m.1157 Adelheid von Meissen (+23.10.1181)
- E6. Dietrich, Gf von Werben 1170, +after 5.9.1183; m.ca 1150 Mechtild of Thuringia
- E7. Bernhard, Gf von Aschersleben, Gf von Anhalt, Duke of Saxony (1180-1212), *1140, +9.2.1212; m.Judith of Poland (+after 1201)
- E8. Hedwig, +III.1203; m.Mgve Otto von Meissen (+18.2.1190)
- E9. a daughter; m.ca 1152 Vladislav of Bohemia (+1165)
- E10. Adelheid, +1162, a nun in Lamspringe
- E11. Gertrude; m.1155 Duke Diepold of Moravia (+1167)
- E12. Sybille, Abbess of Quedlinburg 1160, +ca 1170
- E13. Eilika
- D2. Adelheid; 1m: Gf Heinrich von Stade, Mkgf der Nordmark (+4.12.1128); 2m: Werner von Veltheim (+1170)
- C2. Siegfried I, Gf von Orlamünde, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein (1095-1113), *ca 1075, +k.a.9.3.1113; m.Gertrud von Northeim, Pfalzgräfin bei Rhein (+1154/65)
- B2. Otto
- B3. Adelheid; m.Thimo von Schraplau
- A2. Ludolf, a monk in Corvey
- A3. Dietrich, 1st Prior in Ballenstedt
- A4. Hazecha, Abbess in Gernrode (1043-52), +1052
- A5. Uta, +23.10.before 1046; m.Ekkehard II Markgraf von Meissen
NOTE: House of Ascania (the Latin form of the castle of Aschersleben), is descended from one Gf Adalbert von Ballenstedt. The family acquired the
county of Ascania ca 1100. In 1180 Gf Bernhard of Ascania and Anhalt obtained the title
of Duke of Saxony with the territories of Lauenburg and Wittenberg. Albrecht the Bear
became Margrave of Brandenburg ca 1134, and his descendants ruled Brandenburg until
the 14th century. The only extant lines today are those of the Princes of Anhalt and the Grafen von Westarp.
Rulers of Brandenburg, Rhine Palatinate and Saxony
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Last updated 1st August 2003