Matilda Von Ringelheim, First Ottoman Queen of Germany

Abt 892 - 968  (76 years)

• Name	Matilda Von Ringelheim
  Title	First Ottoman Queen of Germany
  Birth	Abt 892	Sachsen, Germany
  Gender	Female
  Death	14 Mar 968	Sachsen, Germany
  Person ID	I9811	footsteps | Ancestors
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	Dietrich Ringelheim, Duke of Saxony ,   b. 853, Prussia, Germany d. 8 Dec 917, Hannover, Germany (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Reginhilde Ludmilla Friesland,   b. 858, Bayern, Germany d. 917, Westfalen, Germany (Age 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	900
  Family ID	F5321	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Heinrich Liudolfing, King of Germany ,   b. 876, Saxony, Sachsen, Germany d. 2 Jul 936, Sachsen, Germany (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	909	Hannover, Germany
  Children	+ 1. Hedwig Von Sachsen,   b. Abt 910, Saxony, Sachsen, Germany d. 14 Mar 964, Aix-La-Chapelle, France (Age 54 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 2. Gerberga Von Sachsen, Queen of France ,   b. 10 Jun 914, Russia d. 5 May 984, Champagne, France (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5326	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 892 - Sachsen, Germany Marriage - 909 - Hannover, Germany Death - 14 Mar 968 - Sachsen, Germany  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Matilda Von Ringelheim b892

  
  

• Notes

  Matilda was the daughter of Saxon Count Dietrich Ringelheim, a descenda n t o f W i d ukind, who fought against Charlemagne, and Reinhild Friesland. S h e w a s b o rn about 892 in Enger, Sachsen, East Francia. As a young girl , s h e h a d b een sent to the monastery of Herford, where she had been giv en a l i t e r ary education. She became so renowned for her lovely face and good works that she attr a c t e d t he attention of Duke Otto of Saxony, who betrothed her to his so n , H e i n rich Liudolfing I (the Fowler). Matilda founded many religious institutions including the Abbey of Qued l i n b u rg. She was later canonized. : Our knowledge of St. Mathilda's life comes largely from brief mention s i n t h e R e s Gestae Saxonicae (Deeds of the Saxons) of the monastic his to ri a n W i dukind of Corvey, and from two sacred biographies (the vita an t i q u i or and vita posterior) written, respectively, c. 974 and c. 1003. After Henry the Fowler's death in 936, St. Mathilda remained at the cou r t o f h e r s on Otto, until a cabal of royal advisors is reported to have a c c u s e d her of weakening the royal treasury in order to pay for her char i t a b l e activities. After a brief exile at the Westphalian monastery of E n g e r , S t. Mathilda was brought back to court at the urging of Otto I's f i r s t w i fe, the Anglo-Saxon princess Queen Edith. St. Mathilda was celebrated for her devotion to prayer and almsgiving; h e r f i r s t biographer depicted her (in a passage indebted to the sixth-ce n t u r y v ita of the Frankish queen Radegund by Venantius Fortunatus) leav i n g h e r h usband's side in the middle of the night and sneaking off to c h u r c h t o pray. St. Mathilda founded many religious institutions, includ i n g t h e c anonry of Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, a center of Ottonian ecc l e s i a stical and secular life and the burial place of St. Mathilda and h e r h u s b and, and the convent of Nordhausen, Thuringia, likely the source o f a t l e a s t one of her vitae. She was later canonized, with her cult lar ge ly c o n f ined to Saxony and Bavaria. Her feast day is 14th March.