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Matilda of Saxony (c. 935-942 – 25 May 1008) was a Saxon aristocrat who became countess of Flanders by marriage to Baldwin III, Count of Flanders. Life. Matilda was the daughter of Hermann Billung. She first married Baldwin III, count of Flanders. They had: Arnulf II, Count of Flanders
2 ago 2015 · Matilda of Saxony was the daughter of Herman Billung, Duke of Saxony. Around 961, she married Baldwin III of Flanders, and then afterwards to Godfrey of Verdun, nicknamed "The Prisoner". From her marriage in 961 with Baldwin of Flanders was born Arnulf II of Flanders.
- circa 942
- Ghent, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium
- May 25, 1008 (61-70)Gent
Matilda of England (June 1156 — June/July 1189) was an English princess of the House of Plantagenet and by marriage Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria from 1168 until her husband's deposition in 1180.
Born around 892 (some sources cite 895) in Saxony; died on March (some sources cite May) 14, 968, in Quedlinburg, Germany; daughter of Dietrich, count of Ringelheim, and Reinhild of Denmark; became second wife of Henry I the Fowler (c. 876–936), king of Germany, Holy Roman emperor (r. 919–936), in 909; children: Otto I the Great (912–973 ...
Matilda of Saxony may refer to: Matilda of Ringelheim (c. 892–968), also known as Saint Matilda, a Saxon noblewoman. Matilda of Saxony, countess of Flanders ( c. 935-942 - 1008) Matilda, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (955 – 999), daughter of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Adelaide of Italy.
The career of Matilda of Saxony (1171-1210), wife of Count Geoffrey III of the Perche, illustrates the role of high born women in power politics in the twelfth/thirteenth centuries.
In 1168, Matilda, the eldest daughter of Henry II of England, married Henry the Lion of Saxony and Bavaria, and it is clear that Saxony in particular became a centre of Becket devotion noticeably quickly after Becket's death and canonisation.
