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See also:GERO (c. 900-965) , See also:margrave of the Saxon See also:east See also:mark, was probably a member of an influential Saxon See also:family. In 937 he was entrusted by the See also:German See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king See also:Otto, afterwards the See also:emperor Otto the See also:Great, with the See also:defence of the eastern frontier of See also:Saxony against the See also:Wends and other See also:Slavonic tribes; a See also:duty which he discharged with such ability and success that in a few years he extended the Saxon frontier almost to the See also:Oder, and gained the See also:chief See also:credit for the suppression of a rising of the conquered peoples in a great victory on the 16th of See also: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 See also:area of his mark so considerably that after his See also:death it was partitioned into three, and later into five marks. Gero, who is said to have made a See also:journey to See also:Rome, died on the loth of May 965, and was buried in the See also:convent of Gernrode which he had founded on his Saxon estates. He is referred to by the historian See also:Widukind as a preses, and is sometimes called the " great See also:mar-See also:grave." He has been accused of treachery and See also:cruelty, is celebrated in See also:song and See also:story, and is mentioned as the " marcgrave Gere " in the See also:Nibelungenlied.
See Widukind, " Res gestae Saxonicae," in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores, See also:Band iii. ; O. von Heinemann, Markgraf Gero (See also:Brunswick, 1860).
End of Article: GERO (c. 900-965)
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