Bruno

Bruno of Saxony was the eldest son of Liudolfa, the founder of the saxon dynasty Liudolfovců, and his wife's Ody. He was born around the year 830 or 840, and after the death of his father in the year 866 assumed the government in the ancestral domain, in the eastern part of Old Saxony and in Thuringia. While his father is in the contemporary sources referred to as dux orientalis Saxonum so the duke of east Saxony (ostfálský duke), Brunona already Widukind of Corvey in his Res gestae saxonicae called dux totius Saxonum so the duke of the whole of Saxony. Widukind wrote his masterpiece in the second half of the 10th. century, so is not a contemporary witness, however Brunonův importance certainly was not small when she was his sister Liutgarda provádana under Louis III. Young, the son of východofranského king Ludwig II. The germans. Bruno fell in battle with the Vikings. Apparently it was a viking army that had previously defeated the king of the anglo-saxon kingdom of Wessex Alfred the Great. The vikings brought into Saxony with a view to plunder. Bruno led the saxon troops, which with the nordic warriors clashed in the lüneburských moors in Ebstorfu. Vikings Saxons dealt a crushing defeat. Duke Bruno, together with other counts and bishops, in the battle fell, apparently drowned in the swollen river. The government took over his brother Oto. About Brunonových the descendants of the us is not known.


Sources:
en.wikipedia.org
www.manfred-hiebl.de.