Matilda Of Saxony (1172-1209 10)
Matilda of Saxony may refer to: *Matilda of Ringelheim (c. 892–968), also known as Saint Matilda, a Saxon noblewoman * Matilda of Saxony, countess of Flanders ( – 1008) * Matilda, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (955 – 999), daughter of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Adelaide of Italy * Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156 – 1189), eldest daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine; wife of Henry the Lion *Matilda of Saxony (1172-1209/10) Matilda of Saxony, or ''Richenza of Saxony'',(1172-13 January 1209/10) was the Countess of Perche followed by the title of Lady of Coucy from the German Welf dynasty. She was also the niece of Richard the Lionheart. Life Matilda was the eldest ...

Matilda Of Ringelheim
Matilda of Ringelheim ( 892 – 14 March 968), also known as Saint Matilda, was a Saxon noblewoman. Due to her marriage to Henry I in 909, she became the first Ottonian queen. Her eldest son, Otto I, restored the Holy Roman Empire in 962. Matilda founded several spiritual institutions and women's convents. She was considered to be extremely pious, righteous and charitable. Matilda's two hagiographical biographies and ''The Deeds of the Saxons'' serve as authoritative sources about her life and work. Early life and marriage with Henry I Matilda, daughter of Reinhild and the Saxon count Dietrich (himself a descendant of the Saxon duke Widukind who fought against Charlemagne) was born in around 892, and was raised by her grandmother Matilda in Herford Abbey. She had three sisters; Amalrada, Bia and Fridarun, who married Charles III, king of West Francia; and a brother, Beuve II, the Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne. Due to Fridarun's marriage to count Wichmann the Elder, there was an ...
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Matilda Of Saxony, Countess Of Flanders
Matilda of Saxony (c. 935-942 – 25 May 1008) was a Saxon aristocrat who became countess of Flanders by marriage to Baldwin III, Count of Flanders. Life Matilda was the daughter of Hermann Billung. She first married Baldwin III, count of Flanders, with whom she had one son: * Arnulf II, Count of Flanders After Baldwin's death, Matilda married Godfrey I, Count of Verdun, with whom she had several children: * Frederick (d. 1022), count of Verdun * Godfrey (d. 1023), duke of Lower Lorraine (1012–1023) * Adalberon (d. 988), bishop of Verdun (984–988) * Herman of Ename (d. 1024), count of Brabant (retired as a monk in the abbey of Verdun abt. 1022) * Gothelo (d. 1044), margrave of Antwerp, duke of Lower (1023–1044) and later also Upper Upper may refer to: * Shoe upper or ''vamp'', the part of a shoe on the top of the foot * Stimulant, drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both * ''Upper'', the original film title for the ...
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Matilda, Princess-Abbess Of Quedlinburg
Matilda (December 955 – 999), also known as Mathilda and Mathilde, was a German regent, and the first Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. She served as regent of Germany for her brother during his absence in 967, and as regent during the minority of her nephew from 984. She was the daughter of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his second wife, Adelaide of Italy. Nun Her grandmother, Saint Matilda, founded the Quedlinburg Abbey in 936. In April 966, in a splendid ceremony requested by her father, the eleven-year-old granddaughter and namesake of Saint Matilda was elected ''suae metropolitanae sibi haereditariae''. Regency A year after becoming abbess, Matilda was assigned as regent of the kingdom when her father and brother Otto went to Italy. As regent, Matilda held a reforming synod at Dornberg. concerning the church in Germany. In 968, the monk Widukind of Corvey dedicated to Matilda his opus magnum '' Die Sachsengeschichte'', in which he called her the mistress of a ...
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Matilda Of England, Duchess Of Saxony
Matilda of England (June 1156 — June/July 1189) was an English princess of the House of Plantagenet and by marriage Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria from 1168 until her husband's deposition in 1180. Life Matilda was born in or around June 1156 in London or, less likely, at Windsor Castle, as third child and eldest daughter of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine; named after her paternal grandmother, Empress Matilda, she was baptized shortly after birth in the Holy Trinity Church in Aldgate by Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1160, Queen Eleanor and his daughter joined the King who was in Normandy and stayed there presumably until 1163. Upon the disputed Papal election of 1159 and the succeeding schism, King Henry II established closer ties to the Holy Roman Empire, particularly when he himself came into conflict with the English clergy led by Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury; this was reflected at the beginning of 1165, when Frederick I, ...
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