The Latimers - Person Sheet
The Latimers - Person Sheet
Namevon RINGELHEIM, Mathilde 
Birth Dateabt 894
Birth PlaceEnger, Saxony, East Francia, Germany
Death Date14 Mar 968 Age: 74
Death PlaceQuendlinburg Saxony, Holy Roman Empire
Misc. Notes
Saint Matilda (German: Mathilde von Ringelheim) was Duchess of Saxony from 912 and German queen (Queen of the Franks) from 919 by her marriage with Henry the Fowler, the first ruler of the Ottonian dynasty. Upon her husband's death in 936, she founded Quedlinburg Abbey to commemorate the late king. Matilda lived to see Western Imperial rule restored when her eldest son Otto was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 962. Her surname refers to Ringelheim, where her comital Immedinger relatives established a nunnery about 940.
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Misc. Notes
Henry the Fowler (German: Heinrich der Finkler or Heinrich der Vogler; Latin: Henricius Auceps was the Duke of Saxony from 912 and the King of Germany from 919 until his death. 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 state, known until then as East Francia. 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.
ChildrenHedwige (~910-965)