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Matilda of Ringelheim
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Saint Matilda, wife of Henry the Fowler, was famed for her charity and canonised; she was said to descend from the Saxon hero Widukind who fought Charlemagne.
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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.