He left three sons: Eckard I, who succeededed Rikdag as Margrave of Meissen in 985; Gunzelin of Kuckenburg, who followed his brother in 1002, and Bruno, who defended Meissen against the troops of duke Bolesław I Chrobry of Poland in 1009.
Gunzelin feuded with his nephews, Herman and Eckard II, in what was one of 11th-century Germany's ugliest civil wars.
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It is reported by Thietmar of Merseburg that the castle would have been razed if not for Gunzelin's insistence that the Poles be allowed to depart freely and the castle preserved.
In 1009, Herman's uncle Gunzelin was deposed by King Henry II of Germany, who decided to install Herman as Margrave with Regelinda as his Margravine consort.
In 1895 Oswald Balzer refuted reports that previous to her marriage with Mieszko I, Dobrawa was married to Gunther, Margrave of Merseburg and they had a son, Gunzelin.
Richardis of Schwerin, Duchess of Schleswig (d. bef. 1386), wife of Valdemar III of Denmark (Valdemar V, Duke of Schleswig) and daughter of Günzelin VI, Count of Schwerin-Wittenburg.