Oda of Metz (c. 910 – 10 April 963) was a German noblewoman.
She was the daughter of Count Gerard of Metz. Her mother Oda of Saxony was a daughter of
Otto I, Duke of Saxony
Otto ( – 30 November 912), called the Illustrious (german: Otto der Erlauchte) by later authors, a member of the Ottonian dynasty, was Duke of Saxony from 880 to his death.
Family
Otto was a younger son of the Saxon count Liudolf (d. 866), ...
and thus a member of the Liudolfings. One of her brothers was
Henry the Fowler
Henry the Fowler (german: Heinrich der Vogler or '; la, Henricus Auceps) (c. 876 – 2 July 936) was the Duke of Saxony from 912 and the King of East Francia from 919 until his death in 936. As the first non- Frankish king of East Francia, he ...
. Because of this family connection Oda was a aunt of the first
Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor, originally and officially the Emperor of the Romans ( la, Imperator Romanorum, german: Kaiser der Römer) during the Middle Ages, and also known as the Roman-German Emperor since the early modern period ( la, Imperato ...
, Otto I the Great.
In 930, Oda married Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau, who gained fame as military commander for his brother, Adalberon I of Metz. Because she outlived her husband by twenty years, she was head of the household and ran the estate and lands until their children had reached adulthood.
They had the following children:
*Reginar, count of
Bastogne
Bastogne (; nl, Bastenaken, ; german: Bastnach/Bastenach; lb, Baaschtnech) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Bastogne, ...
(d. 18 April 963)
*Henry (d. 6 September 1000)
* Godfrey (935/940 – 3 September 995/1002),
count of Verdun
The County of Verdun was a sovereign medieval county in the Duchy of Lower Lorraine.
County
The rulers of the sovereign County of Verdun styled themselves as Counts by the grace of God.Adalberon (935/940 – 23 January 989), archbishop of Reims 969-989.