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Margraviate of Meissen

 

Contents

Flag

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

Coat of Arms

Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms

Map

History

Origin of the Country's Name



Flag

Flagge Fahne flag Markgrafschaft Meißen Margaviate Meissen
10th cent./cent to 1423,
Escutcheon-flag of the Margraviate of Saxony



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Meaning/Origin of the Flag

The colors of the Margaviate of Meissen were black and gold. The colors were taken from the coat of arms, black eagle on gold. Medieval flags often have been scutcheon-flags, what means, that the image from the coat of arms was transfered on a flag.

Source: Volker Preuß

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Coat of Arms


Wappen coat of arms Markgrafschaft Meißen Margaviate of Meissen
Coat of arms of the Margraviate of Meissen,
Source, by: Wikipedia (D)

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Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms

The coat of arms of the Margraviate of Meissen showed a black lion on golden ground, and in this way the colours of the empire too.

Source: Volker Preuß

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Map


Source: Hand-Atlas für die Geschichte des Mittelalters und die neueren Zeit, 1880, modyfied by: Volker Preuß

The map shows the Margaviate of Meissen in the 13th century, within a red border.

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History

965 · formation of the Margaviate of Meissen, as a fiefdom to the House of Wettin

1249 · elevation of the Margrave of Meissen (Heinrich the Illustrious) to the landgrave of Thuringia

1382 · "Chemnitz Partition" in three parts of land (Osterland, Thuringia, Meissen)

1423 · the Meissen Margrave Friedrich the Pugnacious got Saxony-Wittenberg (Electorate of Saxony) as fiefdom, pass of the name "Saxony" to the Margaviate of Meissen

Source: Volker Preuß

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Origin of the Country's Name

The name "Margaviate of Meissen" refers with "Margaviate" to the origin of the country as a Mark, a county at the border of the German Empire, and with "Meissen" to the residence and capital of the country.

Source: Volker Preuß

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