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- Margaviate of Meissen (Markgrafschaft Meißen)
- former county of the German Empire
• Flag
• Meaning/Origin of the Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms
• Map
• History
• Origin of the Country's Name
10th cent./cent to 1423,
Escutcheon-flag of the Margraviate of Saxony
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
Coat of arms of the Margraviate of Meissen,
Source, by: Wikipedia (D)
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
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.
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
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
