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Thietmar

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Also spelled:
Dietmar or Dithmar
Born:
July 25, 975, Hildesheim, Saxony [Germany]
Died:
Dec. 1, 1018, Merseburg, March of Thuringia (aged 43)
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Thietmar (born July 25, 975, Hildesheim, Saxony [Germany]—died Dec. 1, 1018, Merseburg, March of Thuringia) was the bishop of Merseburg and chronicler whose history of the three Ottos and Henry II, Saxon kings of Germany and Holy Roman emperors, is an important medieval Saxon document. The son of John Siegfried, Graf von Walbeck, and a relative of the royal house, Thietmar spent his youth in Magdeburg, joined the brotherhood of the church of Magdeburg in 991, was made prior of the convent of Walbeck in 1002, and became bishop of Merseburg seven years later. Between 1012 and 1018 he wrote ...(100 of 157 words)

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