Third Generation

3. Friedrich "der Freidige" VON MEISSEN I (+)³ was born on 16 November 1257 in Wartburg, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Thuringen (Thuringia) Province, Germania.⁴ He died on 16 November 1323 at the age of 66 in Eisenach, Kreis Eisenach, Thuringen (Thuringia) Province, Germania.³ Life Sketch: "Friedrich of Freidige was born in the year 1257. His mother Margaret was the daughter of Emperor Frederick II., his father was Albert the degenerate, Landgrave of Thuringia. For some time, it seemed that Friedrich could continue the series of powerful ruler of the Hohenstaufen dynasty with the sonorous name of his ancestor Barbarossa and his grandfather. The Ghibellines carried him the Crown of the southern Italian Hohenstaufen Empire. But the death of his mother in 1270, and the resistance of the Pope failed all plans to make Friedrich, King of Germany.

In 1307 the tide turned after many setbacks permanently in favour of Friedrich: in the battle of Lucka he won a great victory against the Royal Army, which advanced in the direction of the Mark Meißen. After the death of his brother, he inherited his dominions Diezmann, and his opponent King Albrecht was murdered in 1308.

After his cousin Konradin had died in 1268, he became the legitimate heir to the Hohenstaufen claims. His mother suffered in her marriage and feared for her life. When she fled the Wartburg she supposedly bit Friedrich when she said goodbye.

In 1321 he suffered a stroke that paralyzed him. He died two years later at the Wartburg and was buried in the Katharinenkloster. When this monastery was pulled down in 1552 the princely coffins were brought to the Grimmenstein in Gotha, while his gravestone was brought to the monastery in Reinhardsbrunn. His bones remained in Gotha until 1615 and were then brought to Reinhardsbrunn. Today they are located in a small box at the base of the cross in the choir of this church. His gravestone and those of the other margraves were also brought from Reinhardsbrunn in 1952.

He called himself in the year 1269 Friedrich III., King of Jerusalem and Sicily, Duke of Swabia, Landgraf of Thuringia and count Palatine of Saxony. A century after his death, the legend nicknamed of the "Freidige," which means as much as "the brave" gave him, sometimes called him the "Bitten." He was buried in Eisenach, Kreis Eisenach, Thuringen (Thuringia) Province, Germania.³ in the Georgenkirche.

Friedrich "der Freidige" VON MEISSEN I (+) and Agnes VON GORIZIA-TYROL (+) were married in 1286.³ Agnes VON GORIZIA-TYROL (+)³ was born about 1260 in Greifenberg, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern (Pomerania) Province, Preussen (Prussia).⁴ She died on 14 May 1293 at the age of 33 in Kloster Altzelle bei Nossen, Sachsen (Saxony) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^3,4 Life Sketch: "Margravine of Meissen and Countess of Thuringia. Her birthdate is unknown, but she is a daughter of Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany by one of her two husbands: Conrad IV of Germany or Meinhard I, Duke of Carinthia. The latter would be more accurate as he was Count of Gorizia and Tyrol.

Agnes was the first wife of Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen. She married him in 1286. She died on either 21 May 1293 or 14 May 1293. Her burial place is unknown."

Friedrich "der Freidige" VON MEISSEN I (+) and Agnes VON GORIZIA-TYROL (+) had the following children:

Friedrich "der Freidige" VON MEISSEN I (+) and Elisabeth VON LOBDEBURG-ARNSHAUGK (*) were married on 24 August 1300 in Gotha, Kreis Gotha, Thuringen (Thuringia) Province, Germania.⁴ Elisabeth VON LOBDEBURG-ARNSHAUGK (*) was born in 1286 in Meissen, Dresden, Sachsen (Saxony) Province, Germania.⁴ She died on 22 August 1359 at the age of 73 in Meissen, Dresden, Sachsen (Saxony) Province, Germania.⁴ She was buried.⁴

Friedrich "der Freidige" VON MEISSEN I (+) and Elisabeth VON LOBDEBURG-ARNSHAUGK (*) had the following children: