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| | LOTHAIR II. OR III. - LoveToKnow Article on LOTHAIR II. OR III. |
 | | The emperor seconded the efforts of his vassals, Albert the Bear, margrave of the Saxon north mark, and Conrad I., margrave of Meissen and Lusatia, to extend the authority of the Germans in the districts east of the Elbe, and assisted Norbert, archbishop of Magdeburg, and Albert I., archbishop of Bremen, to spread Christianity. |
| | A second rising was caused when, on the death of Ulrich II., count of Weimar and Orlamunde, without issue in 1112, Henry seized these counties as vacant fiefs of the empire, while Lothair supported ;he claim of Siegfried, count of Ballenstadt, whose mother was a relative of Ulrich. |
| | In 1135, Eric II., king of Denmark, acknowledged himself a vassal of Lothair; 18 LOTHAIRLOTHIAN, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF Boleslaus III., prince of the Poles, promised tribute and received Pomerania and Rtigen as German fiefs; while the eastern emperor, John Comnenus, implored Lothair's aid against Roger II. |
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