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GERO (c. 900-965)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 901 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GERO (c. 900-965) , margrave of the Saxon
east
  mark, was probably a member of an influential Saxon family. In 937 he was entrusted by the
German
  king Otto, afterwards the emperor Otto the
Great
 , with the
defence
  of the eastern frontier of
Saxony
  against the
Wends
  and other Slavonic tribes; a duty which he discharged with such ability and success that in a few years he extended the Saxon frontier almost to the Oder, and gained the
chief
  credit for the suppression of a rising of the conquered peoples in a
great
  victory on the 16th of October 955. In 963 he defeated the Lusatians, compelled the king of the Poles to recognize the supremacy of the
German
  king, and extended the area of his mark so considerably that after his death it was partitioned into three, and later into five marks. Gero, who is said to have made a journey to Rome, died on the loth of May 965, and was buried in the convent of Gernrode which he had founded on his Saxon estates. He is referred to by the historian Widukind as a preses, and is sometimes called the " great mar-grave." He has been accused of treachery and
cruelty
 , is celebrated in song and story, and is mentioned as the " marcgrave Gere " in the
Nibelungenlied
 .
See Widukind, " Res gestae Saxonicae," in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores, Band iii. ; O. von Heinemann, Markgraf Gero (
Brunswick
 , 1860).


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