Hermann Billung Duke of Saxony
(-973)
Mathilda of Saxony
(958-1008)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Godfroi comté de Verdon Graf von Bidgau

2. Baudouin III "le Jeune" comté de Flanders

Mathilda of Saxony

  • Born: 958, Saxony
  • Marriage (1): Godfroi comté de Verdon Graf von Bidgau
  • Marriage (2): Baudouin III "le Jeune" comté de Flanders 529
  • Died: 28 May 1008, Flanders at age 50 529

bullet  General Notes:

Charles Crawley on his website Medieval Lands, gives her date of death as 26 Sep 1023, buried at Verdun Saint-Vanne and gives her name as "Mathildis Saxonć comitissa"

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 106:22, 162:19, Mathilda of Saxony, daughter of Herman Billung, Duke of Saxony, married as her first husband, Baldwin III, Count of Flanders, and as her second husband, Gottfried, comté de Verdun. 160

bullet  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Mechtild of Saxony was the daughter of Hermann Billung and she twice, first to Boudouin III comté des Flandres & second to Godefroi comte de Verdun. "Mathilda Saxonici generic" is named as wife of Count Baudouin in the Cartulaire de Saint-Bertin [Saint-Bertin II.78, p. 153]. The Annalista Saxo names (in order) "Bennonis ducis, qui et Bernhardus et Liudigeri comitis et Machtildis comitisse" as brothers and sister of "domna Suanehildis (filia) Herimanni ducis de Liuniburh", recording the names of Mechtild's two husbands [Annalista Saxo 1002].


Mathilda married Godfroi comté de Verdon Graf von Bidgau, son of Gozelon Count in the Bidgau and Uda of Metz. (Godfroi comté de Verdon Graf von Bidgau was born between 930 and 935 and died in 1003 in Verdun 755.)


Mathilda next married Baudouin III "le Jeune" comté de Flanders, son of Arnould I "le Vieux" Comte de Flandres and Adčle de Vermandois.529 (Baudouin III "le Jeune" comté de Flanders was born about 933 in Flanders 755 and died on 1 Nov 962 in Flanders 529.)


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