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630 GERMAN r.
[Brandenburg.
in this country ; and that after their emigration, which happened in the fifth
century, the W€?tds came here in their ftead. To thefe principally belonged
ihe Wilzi or Lutizi, who were rendered tributary by Charlemagne ;
but they
retained neverthelefs their King, and, towards the clofe of the ninth century,
again regained their liberty. King Henry I. and the Emperor Otto
the Great, had, in the tenth century, many negotiations with the Wends.
Under the latter they bound themfelves, indeed, not only to pay tribute
but alfo to receive Chrißianity ; and for the propagation of it the Emperor
founded here the biflioprics of Brandenburg and Havelberg ; but neither
their tribute nor their Chrißianity was of any long continuance, for which
reafon the wars betwixt the Germans and the Wends were carried on with various
fuccefs. The prefent Old-Mark, however, which was a part of Saxony,
iiad, from the time of Charlemagne, its own Counts, of whom Theodorick
was the firft. Concerning this Prince we know for certain that, about
the year 974,
he enjoyed the title of a Marggrave ; but this marggravate,
which was erefted againfi: the Wends who dwelt on the Baltick, is, with
refpedl to the eaftern marggravate, which was erefted in Mei/fen, fliled
the Northern, and from the capital feat of its Marggraves, the marggravate
of Sollwedel. In 1056 too it came to the family of the Counts of Stade,
together with the marggravate of that name, Luther Udo I. was the firft
Marggrave of the houfe of Stade. He was fucceeded by his fon Udo I.
and this laft fucceffively by his fons He?7ry the Long and Luther Udo II.
Henry, fon to the latter, was, during his minority, namely, until the year
1 1 14, under the tutelage of Rudolph his father's brother, whofe fon, Udo II.
but was depofed by the Em-
fucceeded him alfo in the marggraval dignity,
peror Lotharius and the marggravate conferred on Conrad of Plotzkau, and
after his death, in 113 5, on Albert the Bear, whofe father. Otto, was of
the AJcaJiian line, and his mother, Eilika, daughter to Duke Magnus of
Saxo?iy, and the laft of the Bilking race. This Marggrave Albert the
Wendiß:, was, by King Pribizlaiis, who had no children of his own, appointed
heir to all his lands between the Elbe and the Oder, or, in other
words, to the prefent Middle-Mark, Prignitz and the Ucker-Mark; all
which this Marggrave Albert thus brought firft to the German Empire, and
was the firft likewife who from the town of Brandenburg ftiled himfelf a
Marggrave thereof. By bringing under his fubjcdion the Wends, as alfo by
the propagation of Chrißianity, the introduction of divers of the Netherland
and German nobility, the building of a greater number of towns and the
encouragement of handicraftfmen, this Prince gave the Mark quite a different
and more improved form. To him iucceeded, in 1170, his fon
Otto 1. who annexed the arch-chamberlainfhip and the elecfloral dignity to
rht Mark oi Brandenburg. His grandfons, y^/j« and O//0 III. brought the
Uckcy-Mark to their family, of which Mark the Dukes of Pomerania,
in