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    Ekkehard I (Latin: Eccehardus; died 14 January 973), called Major or Senex (the Elder), was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall. He was of noble birth, of...
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  • Ekkehard III was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall and a nephew of Ekkehard I and a cousin of Ekkehard II. He shared the educational advantages of his...
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    Eckard I (Ekkehard; c. 960 – 30 April 1002) was Margrave of Meissen from 985 until his death. He was the first margrave of the Ekkehardinger family that...
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  • to the thirteenth century: Ekkehard I (died 973) Ekkehard II (died 990) Ekkehard III Ekkehard IV (died c. 1056) Ekkehard V (died c. 1220) It was also...
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    exact dates are unknown. However, it is likely that Markgraf (Margrave) Ekkehard I of Meissen and the most powerful man on the eastern border of the Holy...
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  • his sequence poetry. Ekkehard was probably born in the Saint Gall area; he and his cousin Ekkehard III were nephews of Ekkehard I (Ekkehardus Decanus;...
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    Eckard II (German: Ekkehard; c. 985 – 24 January 1046) was Margrave of Lusatia (as Eckard I) from 1034 and Margrave of Meissen from 1038 until his death...
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    Carolingian Empire Carolingian Renaissance Saint-Gall Cantatorium Waltharius Ekkehard I Walter William Horn's Papers Regarding The Plan of St. Gall : production...
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  • Carved from the March of Gero. 965-979: Wigbert 979-985: Rikdag 985-1002: Ekkehard I Merseburg (965-982). Carved from the March of Gero, annexed to Meissen...
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    functions. Otto II employed monks among his top political advisers, including Ekkehard I and Majolus of Cluny. One of the most important such monks was John Philagathus...
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    terrain. Following the murder of Ekkehard I, the site was gradually abandoned as the margravial brothers Hermann and Ekkehard II transferred their family seatfrom...
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    lines survive. Waltharius, a 10th-century Latin epic written by the monk Ekkehard I of St Gall. Chronicon Novaliciense ("Chronicle of Novalesa"), a Latin...
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  • Eckhard I of Scheyern, also Ekkehard von Scheyern (c. 1044 – died before 11 May 1091), was a son of Otto I, Count of Scheyern. His mother cannot be unambiguously...
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    died in battle against the Poles. After Thietmar's death she remarried Ekkehard I who was murdered on 30 April 1002 in Pöhlde. They had seven children:...
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  • Ekkehard (Eggebard) (d. 844), Count of Hesbaye[citation needed], possibly son of Nibelung, Count of the Vexin, and grandson of Childebrand I of Herstal...
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  • king of Min (Ten Kingdoms) 937 – Zhang Yanlang, Chinese official 973 – Ekkehard I, Frankish monk and poet 1092 – Vratislaus II of Bohemia 1163 – Ladislaus...
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    Ekkehard I, Frankish monk and poet March 26 – Guntram (the Rich), Frankish nobleman March 27 – Hermann Billung, Frankish nobleman May 7 – Otto I, emperor...
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  • Archbishop of Magdeburg, and Margrave Ekkehard I of Meissen; Eido is supposed to have been a friend of Ekkehard. Eido's death, according to Machatschek...
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  • Ekkehard V (died c. 1220), called Minimus (the Least), was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall. He is the last of the Saint Gall Ekkehards, and flourished...
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    Ekkehard Schall (29 May 1930 in Magdeburg – 3 September 2005 in Berlin) was a German stage and screen actor/director. He was one of the best-known interpreters...
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    the Waltharius. According to Ekkehard IV, the poem was written by the earlier Ekkehard, generally distinguished as Ekkehard I, for his master Geraldus in...
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  • Ekkehard Arendt (10 June 1892 – 10 May 1954) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Arendt served in the Austrian Army during the First World War, before...
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    George in Naumburg, married: in 970 Thietmar I (died after 979) Margrave of Meissen, before 1000 Ekkehard I (murdered 30 April 1002 in Pöhlde); became in...
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  • Ekkehard Karl Friedrich Bautz is a molecular biologist and chair of the Institute of Molecular Genetics at the University of Heidelberg. He was born September...
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  • Bishop of Meissen from 1016 to 1023. Eilward, a younger son of Margrave Ekkehard I of Meissen and his wife Schwanhild, daughter of Hermann Billung, was appointed...
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  • Liutprand, Lombard bishop and historian Sviatoslav I (Igorevich), Grand Prince of Kiev 973 January 14 – Ekkehard I, Frankish monk and poet March 26 – Guntram...
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    Gedicht des zehnten Jahrhunderts (edition of "Waltharius", original author: Ekkehard I, Dean of St. Gall, with Joseph Victor von Scheffel), 1874. De origine...
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    the murder of the margrave Ekkehard I on 30 April 1002, Ekkehard's sons, Margrave Hermann (1009 – 1038) and Margrave Ekkehard II (1009 – 1046), assumed...
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  • let Dean Ekkehard I run the abbey on his behalf, wishing him to become next abbot after he died. However, due to a horseriding accident, Ekkehard was unable...
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  • return to his badly-damaged headquarters until after the re-conquest by Ekkehard I, Margrave of Meissen, in 987. In that year he put the diocese under Imperial...
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