
Oda van Billung

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Name Oda van Billung Birth Bef 806 Sachsen, Germany Gender Female FSID G148-LTW Death 17 May 913 Sachsen, Germany Person ID I9808 footsteps | Ancestors Last Modified 21 Apr 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 F5382 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 F5324 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
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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.