RINGELHEIM, Matilda of

894 - 968  (74 years)

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• Name	RINGELHEIM, Matilda of
  Birth	894
  Gender	Female
  Relation to Me	34 GGM
  Royalty & Nobility	Queen of the Franks; Duchess of Saxony
  Death	14 Mar 968
  Person ID	I7300	My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	FOWLER, Henry the,   b. 876   d. 2 Jul 936 (Age 60 years)
  Children	+ 1. SAXONY, Hedwige of,   b. 910   d. 10 May 965 (Age 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 2. SAXONY, Gerberga of,   b. 913   d. 5 May 968 (Age 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2024

  
  

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  Matilda of Ringelheim - Wikipedia

  
  

• Notes

  Medieval chroniclers celebrated Matilda for her devotion to prayer and almsgiving. Her first biographer depicted her leaving her husband's side in the middle of the night and sneaking off to church to pray. St. Matilda founded many religious institutions, including the canonry of Quedlinburg, which became a center of ecclesiastical and secular life in Germany under the rule of the Ottonian dynasty. She also founded the convents of St. Wigbert in Quedlinburg, in Pöhlde, Enger, and Nordhausen, likely the source of at least one of her vitae. She was later canonized, with her cult largely confined to Saxony and Bavaria. St. Matilda's feast day according to the regional German calendar of saints is 14 March.