Oda van Billung

Bef 806 - 913  (> 107 years)

• Name	Oda van Billung
  Birth	Bef 806	Sachsen, Germany
  Gender	Female
  FSID	G148-LTW
  Death	17 May 913	Sachsen, Germany
  Person ID	I9604	footsteps
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Hermann Billung,   b. Abt 780, Sachsen, Germany d. 850, Italy (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Adelais Carolingian,   b. Abt 798, Saxony, Sachsen, Germany d. Aft 810, Sachsen, Germany (Age > 13 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F5262	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Liudolf Liudolfing, Duke of Saxony ,   b. Aft 805, Sachsen, Germany d. 11 Mar 866 (Age < 59 years)
  Marriage	820
  Children	+ 1. Otto Liudolfing, Duke of Saxony ,   b. Abt 836, Sachsen, Germany d. 30 Nov 912, Sachsen, Germany (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5204	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  About 830 Liudolf married Oda, daughter of a Frankish princeps named Bi l l u n g a nd his wife Aeda. By marrying a Frankish nobleman's daughter, Li u d o l f f ollowed suggestions set forth by Charlemagne about ensuring the i n t e g r ity of the Carolingian Empire in the aftermath of the Saxon Wars t h r o u g h marriage. Oda died on 17 May 913, supposedly at the age of 107. In 845/846, Liudolf and Oda traveled to Rome in order to ask Pope Sergi u s I I f o r p ermission to found a house of secular canonesses, duly estab l i sh e d a t their proprietary church in Brunshausen around 852, and moved i n 8 8 1 t o f o rm Gandersheim Abbey. Liudolf and Oda 's minor daughter Hat hu m o d b e came the first abbess.