Diederik II (before 993 - 19 November 1034) was the market grave of the Lower Lausitz (1032). Life
Diederik was the son of Dedo I of Wettin and Thietberga of Haldensleben. After the death of his father in 1009, "at the request of his mother and the rulers" he was borrowed from his father's loans: the county of Wettin (city) and borrow from Zörbig. There is no regency agency so Diederik should have been at the age of majority. Gradually he built his property: in 1017 he was digged in Schwabengau (north of Wettin) and inherited Eilenburg, Brehna and the status of state-owned uncle Frederik I van Wettin.
Diederik was one of the witnesses at the peace of Bautzen (city) in 1018, which ended the fifteen year war between Poland and Germany. When the new Polish king Mieszko II Lambert of Poland later retaliated the war, it was Diederik who defended the defense and defeated Polish troops in 1030. In recognition of this, he was named Lausitz in 1032, but in 1034 he was assassinated by vassals of his brother-in-law Ekhard II van Meißen. Marriage and children
Diederik was married to Mathilde van Meissen, daughter of Markgraaf Ekhard I van Meißen and Swanhilde Billung van Saksen, daughter of Duke Herman Billung of Saxony. They had the following children:
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