Matilda of Ringelheim
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Matilda of Ringelheim (c.892-968), Queen of the Germans, wife of Henry the Fowler, was canonised for a lifetime of prodigious charity; her biographers say she taught herself the psalter between the duties of a queen and emptied the treasury on the poor, to her sons' fury. She founded the great abbey of Quedlinburg, where she is buried beside her husband. Mother of Emperor Otto the Great and of our ancestress Gerberga, she is one of the saints in this family's line.
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ST MATILDA OF RINGELHEIM (c.894-968), wife of Henry the Fowler; mother of Hedwig (our line); reputedly descended from Widukind (that line note-only). Canonised. Direct ancestress - another saint in the line. || PARENTS WIRED 14 Sep 2026: DIETRICH, count in Westphalia, by REINHILD (Vita Mathildis reginae - her own convent's biography; ES). The Vita's WIDUKIND descent stays ~ note-only.