Thietmar, Count of Merseburg
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Thietmar, Count of Merseburg
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Thietmar (I), Count and Margrave, was the military tutor of Henry the Fowler while he was the heir and then duke of the Duchy of Saxony. He probably kept a small body of elite retainers armed with the latest in military technology and well-supplied with expensive horses. His armored cavalry played a decisive role in winning the Battle of Lenzen on 4 September 929, securing German domination along the Elbe river against West Slavic peoples. He married Hildegard, the maternal aunt of Hatheburg of
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German noble (d. 932)
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2024-03-11T14:37:55Z
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