 On his death, aged seventy-two, Bernhard was buried beside his father Albert and several of his brothers in the Church of the Benedictine monastery in Ballenstedt.Bernhard married 

Firstly,Judith (Jutta), a daughter of Mieszko III the Old with issue; 

Secondly, Sophia, daughter of Louis II, "the Iron", Landgrave of Thuringia with issue; 

and thirdly Judith (b. bef.1154 – d. aft.