• Otto, Count of Ballenstedt, called Otto the Rich (c. 1070 – 9 February 1123), was the first Ascanian prince to call himself count of Anhalt, and was also...
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    Ballenstedt is a town in the Harz district, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is situated at the northern rim of the Harz mountain range, about...
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    of Margrave Otto I of Meissen and his wife, Adela of Louvain. Their two sons were: Otto the Rich (c. 1070 – 1123), Count of Ballenstedt Siegfried (c...
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  • Adelaide of Ballenstedt (c. 1100 - after 1139) was the daughter of Otto of Ballenstedt and a member of the House of Ascania. She married, successively...
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  • Esico of Ballenstedt (died around 1060) is the progenitor of the House of Ascania, (i.e., the oldest known member of his dynasty). Esico was the count...
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    duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142. Albert was the only son of Otto, Count of Ballenstedt, and Eilika, daughter of Magnus Billung, Duke of Saxony. He inherited...
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  • Adalbert von Ballenstedt c. 970, (name uncertain, but possibly Adalbert), was Count of Ballenstedt, Vogt of the Nienburg Abbey, and the provost of Hagenrode...
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  • member of the Billung dynasty. Through marriage to Otto of Ballenstedt, she was countess of Ballenstedt. Eilika was the younger daughter of Magnus, Duke...
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  • Adalbert II, Count of Ballenstedt, and the counts palatine Herman and Henry. When he died, she remarried to Dedi I of Lusatia, Otto's stepfather. Thompson...
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  • Otto the Rich may refer to: Otto, Count of Ballenstedt (died 1123), the first Ascanian prince to call himself count of Anhalt; briefly named duke of Saxony...
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