OF SAXONY

Castle and monastery of Quedlinburg

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Otto I Dux, Chronica Sancti Pantaleonis, Cologne, about 1237

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Pedigree of the Ottonian dynasty, Ludolf dux Saxonie
at the top, chronicles of St. Pantaleon, Cologne, 12th century

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"Henry and Matilda in the Pedigree of the Ottonian dynasty, Cologne, 12th century"

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Česky: Jindřich Ptáčník a Matylda z Ringelheimu  
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Saint Mathilda

Mathilde de Ringelheim before 1938
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Henry I "The Fowler" of GERMANY b: 876 in Saxony, Germany
Matilda of RINGELHEIM - Countess of Ringelheim
"She was the wife of Henry I the Fowler, King of the East Franks, whom she married in 909. Their son, Otto, succeeded his father as Otto I the Great. Matilda founded many religious institutions including the Abbey of Quedlinburg. She was later canonized. Their other children were Henry I the Quarrelsome, Gerberga (or Gerberge), Hadwig, Bruno I the Great. Our knowledge of St. Mathilda's life comes largely from brief mentions in the Res Gestae  Saxonicae (Deeds of the Saxons) of the monastic historian Widukind of Corvey, and from two sacred biographies (the vita antiquior and vita posterior) written, respectively, c. 974 and
c. 1003.St. Mathilda was the daughter of the Westphalian count Dietrich and his wife Reinhild, and her biographers traced her ancestry back to the famed Saxon hero, Blessed Widukind (c.730 - 807). As a young girl, she was sent to the convent of Herford, where her reputation for beauty and virtue is said to have attracted the attention of Duke Otto of Saxony, who betrothed her to his son, Henry the Fowler.After Henry the Fowler's death in 936, St. Mathilda remained at the court of her son Otto, until a cabal of royal advisors is reported to have accused her of weakening the royal treasury in order to pay for her charitable activities. After a brief exile at the Westphalian monastery of Enger, St. Mathilda was brought back to court at the urging of Otto I's first wife, the Anglo-Saxon princess Queen Edith. St. Mathilda was celebrated for her devotion to prayer and almsgiving; her first biographer depicted her (in a passage indebted to the sixth-century vita of the Frankish queen Radegund by Venantius Fortunatus) leaving her husband's side in the middle of the night and sneaking off to church to pray. St. Mathilda founded many religious institutions,
including the canonry of Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, a center of Ottonian ecclesiastical and secular life and the burial place of St. Mathilda and her husband, and the convent of Nordhausen, Thuringia, likely the source of at least one of her vitae. She was later canonized, with her cult largely confined to Saxony and Bavaria. St. Mathilda's feast day is on March 14. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)"

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Henry I "The Fowler" of GERMANY b: 876 in Saxony, Germany
Matilda of RINGELHEIM - Countess of Ringelheim
"Duke of Saxony
He was Duke of Saxony from 912 and king of the Germans from 919 until his death in 936.
First of the Ottonian Dynasty of German kings and emperors, he is generally considered to
be the founder and first king of the medieval German Empire, known until then as the East
Franconian Kingdom. An avid hunter, he obtained the epithet "the Fowler" because he was
allegedly fixing his birding nets when messengers arrived to inform him that he was to be king. Henry was the son of Otto the Illustrious, duke of Saxony, and his wife Hedwiga, a great-granddaughter of Charlemagne. In 906 he married Hatheburg, daughter of the Saxon count Erwin, but divorced her in 909 after she had given birth to his son Thankmar. Later that year he married Matilda of Ringelheim, daughter of Dietrich, count in western Saxony (Westfalia). Matilda bore him three sons and two daughters and founded many religious
institutions, including the abbey of Quedlinburg where Henry is buried, and was later canonized.Henry became duke of Saxony upon his father's death in 912 and, an able ruler, continued to strengthen Saxony, frequently in conflict with his neighbors to the South, the dukes of Franconia.In 918 king Conrad I of the East-Franconian Empire, and duke of Franconia, died and recommended Henry as his successor as king, despite the fact that they had been at odds with each other from 912 to 915 over the title to lands in Thuringia. Conrad's choice was conveyed by duke Eberhard III of Franconia, Conrad's brother and heir, to the assembled Franconian and Saxon nobles at the Reichstag of Fritzlar in 919, which duly elected Henry to
be king. Henry refused to be anointed by a high church official, the only king of his time not to undergo that rite -- allegedly because he did not wish to be king by the church's but by the people's acclaim. Duke Burkhard I of Swabia soon swore fealty to the new king, but duke Arnulf of Bavaria did not submit until Henry invaded Bavaria in 921 and Arnulf swore fealty to him.Henry regarded the kingdom as a confederation of tribal duchies rather than a feudal kingdom and himself as primus inter pares. Rather than seeking to administer the empire through counts, as Charlemagne had done and his successors had attempted, Henry
allowed the dukes of Franconia, Swabia and Bavaria to maintain complete internal control of their holdings. In 925, he defeated Giselbert, duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine), and brought that realm, which had been lost in 910, back into the German kingdom as the fifth tribal duchy (the others being Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, and Bavaria), but allowing Giselbert to remain in power and marrying his daughter Gerberga to his new vassal in 928. Henry was a very able military leader. Germany had been repeatedly raided by the Magyars (Hungarians), and in 924 Henry paid them a tribute to secure a ten-year truce so that he could fortify towns and train a new elite cavalry force. With his new army, he conquered the Havelli and the Daleminzi in 928 and put down a rebellion in Bohemia in 929. When the Magyars began raiding again, he led an army of all German tribes to victory over them at the battle of Riade in 933, stopping one of their advances into Germany. He also pacified territories to the north, where the Danes had harried the Frisians off to the sea. The monk and historian Widukind of Corvey in his Rex gestae Saxonicae reports that the Danes were subjects of Henry the Fowler. Henry incorporated territories held by the Wends, who together with the Danes had attacked Germany, into his kingdom and also conquered Schleswig in 934.When Henry died on 2 July 936, all German tribes were united in a single kingdom. Henry I is therefore considered the first German king and the founder of the eventual Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation). His son Otto succeeded him as Emperor Otto I ("the Great"). His second son, Henry, became duke of Bavaria. A third son, Brun (or Bruno), became archbishop of Cologne. His son from his first marriage, Thankmar, rebelled against his half-brother Otto and was killed in battle in 936. His daughter Gerberga married Duke Giselbert of Lorraine and subsequently King Louis IV of France. His youngest daughter Hedwige of Saxony married  Duke (Hugh the Great) of France and was the mother of Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king of France. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)"

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Otto "the Illustrious" of SAXONY - Duke of Saxony
Hathui of SAXONY - Duchess Of Saxony
"Count of South Thuringia
Count of the Eichsfeld The younger son of Liudolf, Duke of Saxony and his wife Oda, Otto presumably became duke of Saxony shortly before his death, but no details are known. According to Widukind of Corvey, Otto was offered the kingship of the East Franks in 911 and did not accept it, but the truthfulness of this report is considered doubtful. Otto's wife was Hathui, daughter of Henry, Duke of Austria. He is named as count of South Thuringia in 888, and as count of the Eichsfeld in 908; he was also lay abbot of the Monastery of Hersfeld. Otto is buried in the monastery church of Gandersheim. His son Henry, later to be
King Henry the Fowler, succeeded him as duke of Saxony. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Otho or Otto, the Great, Duke of Saxony 912. Married Princess Hedwige, daughter of Arnolph, Emperor of Germany, son of Carolomannus, King of Bavaria and Emperor of Germany, son of Ludovicus Germanicus (Louis, the German), son of Louis le Debonnaire, son of Charlemagne.  (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 363) OTTO, the Great, Grand Duke of Saxony, who died 912; married, first, Hedwige, daughter of
Emperor Lewis, Germanicus; second, Ludolph, or Leutgarde, daughter of the Emperor Arnulph and Ode, daughter of Theodon, Count of Bavaria.
(Fenwick Allied Ancestry, page 63)"

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Liudolf of SAXONY
Oda of SAXONY
"daughter of a Frankish prince named Billung and his wife Aeda. Oda died on 17 May 913, supposedly at the age of 107.Oda, the wife of Count Liudolf, oldest known member of the Liudolfing House, was a Billung.
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Liudolf of SAXONY
Oda of SAXONY
"He was a Saxon count; later authors called him duke of the Eastern Saxons. He was also named as count of Eastphalia. Liudolf had possessions in eastern Saxony, and was involved in wars against Normans and Slavs. The Liudolfing House, also known as the Ottonian House, is named after him; he is its oldest known member.
Liudolf married Oda, daughter of a Frankish prince named Billung and his wife Aeda. Oda died on 17 May 913, supposedly at the age of 107. By marrying a Frankish nobleman's daughter, Liudolf followed suggestions set forth by Charlemagne about ensuring the integrity of the Frankish Kingdom through marriage.  In 845/846, Liudolf and his wife traveled to Rome in order to ask Pope Sergius II for support  for the founding of a nunnery. The nunnery was founded in Brunshausen around 852, and it was moved to nearby Gandersheim in 881. Liudolf's daughter Hathumod became its first abbess. Liudolf is buried in Brunshausen; his sons Brun and Otto apparently inherited his property. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Ludolph, the Great, Duke of Saxony, died 859. He married Hedwige, daughter of Eberhard, Count of Burgundy, and his wife Gesela, who was the daughter of Louis I, King of France, called Le Debonnaire or the Gentle, Roman Emperor 814-840, son of Charlemagne and his wife Hildegard. (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 363)"

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Charles "the Younger" of NEUSTRIA - Duke of Ingelheim, King of
Neustria
of MERCIA
"Charles the Younger, born circa 772, was the second son of Charlemagne and the first by
his third wife, Hildegard of Swabia. When Charlemagne divided his empire among his sons, his son Charles was designated King of the Franks. His elder brother, Pippin the Hunchback, was disinherited, and his younger brothers Carloman (renamed Pippin) and Louis the Pious received Italy and Aquitaine, respectively.
Charles was mostly preoccupied with the Bretons, whose border he shared and who insurrected on at least two occasions and were easily put down, but he was also sent against the Saxons on multiple occasions. Charles' father outlived him, however, and the entire kingdom thus went to his younger brother Louis the Pious, Pippin also having died. Around 789 it was suggested by Charlemagne that Charles the Younger should be married to Offa's daughters Ælflæd. Offa insisted that the marriage could only go ahead if
Charlemagne's daughter Bertha was married to Offa's son Ecgfrith. Charlemagne took offence, broke off contact, and closed his ports to English traders. Eventually, normal relations were reestablished and the ports were reopened. Just a few years later, in 796, Charlemagne and Offa concluded the first commercial treaty known in English history.  His father associated Charles in the government of Francia and Saxony in 790, and
installed him as ruler of the ducatus Cenomannicus (corresponding to the later Duchy of Maine). with the title of a king. Charles was crowned King of the Franks at Rome December 25, 800, the same day his father was crowned Emperor.[citation needed] On 4 December 811, in Bavaria, Charles had a stroke and died. He left eleven children the eldest being Gerard, the oldest of eight sons, and three sisters. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)"

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"Foundation -- Gandersheim Abbey was a proprietary foundation by Duke Liudolf of Saxony and
his wife Oda, who during a pilgrimage to Rome in 846[citation needed] obtained the permission
of Pope Sergius II for the new establishment and also the relics of the sainted former popes
Anastasius and Innocent[1], who are still the patron saints of the abbey church. The community
settled first at Brunshausen. The first abbess was Hathumod, a daughter of Liudolf, as were the
two succeeding abbesses. In 856 construction began on the church at Gandersheim and in 881
Bishop Wigbert dedicated it to the Saints Anastasius, Innocent and John the Baptist, after which
the community moved in."
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