Ahh - I see this is a contested issue: the oldest verifiable ancestor of the current Belgian king Philippe in a direct male line. There is no reliable information about his origin and his biographical data.
Today there are essentially three equally speculative theories about Dietrich's parentage. A first theory, put forward in an 1886 dissertation by Friedrich Kurz and adopted by Otto Posse in his Genealogy of the House of Wettin (1897), relates Buzici to "Buco" or "Buzo", a short form of "Burchard", and identifies the Buzici hence with the Burchards, retainers of the Carolingians since Charlemagne . Two nobles who died in the Battle of Cape Colonna against the Saracens (July 13, 982), Dedi and Burchard , are regarded as brothers of Dietrich I and Dedi I , Count imHassegau , († March 14, 957) as his father. An extension of this theory traces Dietrich's descent back to Burchard , Margrave of the Sorbian Mark, who fell in battle against the Hungarians in 908. A second theory, which is represented by Reinhard Wenskus and Stefan Pätzold , also leads Buzici back to the nickname Burchard and considers Dietrich to be a son of the Swabian Duke Burchard III. († 973) from the Burchardinger family , who spent some time in Saxony after 926, from an unrecorded first marriage to an Immedingerinnamed Wieltrud. To support this theory, it is stated that in the preface to the Sachsenspiegel, which was only written in the 13th century, the Wettins are counted among the Swabian families. A third theory, which i.a. is represented in the Lexicon of the Middle Ages , makes Dietrich the son of the Harzgau count Volkmar (Folcmar, around 945). This theory is supported by the fact that the agnatic relative Rikdag is considered a member of the Harzgau counts, a clan that can be traced back to the 9th century.https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_I._(Wettiner)
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