Wigger I von Zeitz

Count Wigger I. the master father was later (from 1145 on) after its new master seat, that Castle Bilstein to the west of Albungen (a today's local part of Eschwege) at that Werra, „count von Bilstein “family mentioned, which played an important role in Thuringen from approximately 967 to 1301. Its family was beside that Ekkehardinern and that Weimararanern the third largest and influential count familyin Thuringia the time at that time.

Wigger I. the second son of the count Siegfried von Merseburg from the kinship of the Mark count was supposed Gero. It had extensive possession and gräfliche rights in Calibration field and to the middle Werra; thus been subordinate its gräflichen jurisdiction also the Thuringian goods of the empress Theophanu, among them Eschwege, Frieda, Mühlhausen and Chimney home. He was count that Germarmark (east of Mühlhausen), count in the Weitagau and in the Ducharingau (area Zeitz Naumburg), and Vogt of the Diocese Zeitz. In the document of 968, in the emperors Otto I. the donation of the Ore diocese Magdeburg and its Suffraganbistümer Merseburg, Zeitz and Meissen ordered, Wigger as a Mark count von Zeitz is designated; otherwise it is in each case mentioned as a count.

Wigger was a faithful Gefolgsmann that Ottonen, took at their wars against those slawischen Trunks part, and also count in the gaus became Plisni and Puonzowa.

Wigger I. and its older brother Dedi the founders of the nun monastery were supposed Drübeck Who Niger desert, which conveyed Wigger 980 the king; however their founder role is so far not surely provable.

Wigger died 981. Its son Wigger II. only partly beerbte his father, so as a count in west gau (Germarmark) and in the Weitagau, during other large parts its rule to the Mark counts Rikdag and Corner hard I. of Meissen fell.