Hi everyone, Aside from the wikipedia page does anyone know another source where I can find out about Egbert II? Thanks Frank
For the English one try this link. Another. And if you're a Facebook user this one might help also. For the other one I can't help you.
In "The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens" he is noted on pages 224-5. He was a client king of Kent set up by King Offa of Mercia. If you would like I can photograph the pages of the book. Some of us still have pre-wikipedia references that are often more reliable.
Sorry I wasn't more specific guys, this is the Egbert that I meant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbert_II,_Margrave_of_Meissen
Don't know much about him (and even that comes close to a euphemism ), but it is interesting how the different Wikipedia versions write differently about Ekbert's death. The English and Italian articles, for example, say that he "fell in combat"/"morì in battaglia". The German and Dutch texts say that he was murdered ("ermordet", "vermoord") while trying to escape. Here is a page from the Spalatin Chronicles, written in German about 500 years ago. http://spalatin.franconica.uni-wuerzburg.de/login/b/LBC_MsCas_10/LBC_MsCas_10_165v.html It does not actually suggest his death in a battle ... Christian
Not sure if this is of help for you, the German Wikipedia cites the "Enzyklopädisches Wörterbuch der Wissenschaften, Zünfte und Gewerbe" from 1828 in the ninth volume in its article about Egbert II von Meißen. Google books has a digitalized version hosted that corresponds to your inquiry: http://books.google.de/books?id=_yF...BjgU#v=onepage&q=egbert II von Meißen&f=false This type of old style German language is painful to read even for a native speaker. and here is another German source hosted on google books it has also a listing of his genealogical tree : http://books.google.de/books?id=TcH...UQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Egbert II Meißen&f=false This book names the cause of his dead to have occurred while fleeing principal judgment, he was an opponent to the German Emperor Heinrich IV (1050 - 1106).
