General Notes

1  NAME Herman Margrave /Billung/
1  BIRT
2  DATE ABT. 905
2  PLAC Saxony, Germany
GWC p 44 "OTTO I energetically pursued a two-pronged program to convert t
he Slavs and colonize their lands as far as the Oder River and to shatt
er the Magyars.  While securing the north by strengthening the growing see
s, he also established the Lusatian, Meissen, and Billung marches, and t
he see of Magdeburg.  In driving the Slavs back, Margrave HERMANN BILLU
NG and Count Gero of Thuringia played leading roles.  They founded the bis
hoprics of Havelberg and Brandenburg and in 963 forced Miesko, ki
ng of an emerging Poland, to recognize German overlordship for his holdin
gs between the Oder and Warthe Rivers."
Also p 71