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Our knowledge of Mathilda's life comes largely from brief mentions in the Res Gestae Saxonicae (Deeds of the Saxons) of the monastic historian Widukind of Corvey, and from two sacred biographies (the vita antiquior and vita posterior) written, respectively, c. 974 and c. 1003. Image File history File links Gloriole. ... Widukind of Corvey was a Saxon historical chronicler, named after the famous Saxon national hero Widukind. ...

Mathilda was the daughter of the Westfalian count Dietrich and his wife Reinhild, and her biographers traced her ancestry back to the famed Saxon hero, Widukind (c. 730 - 807). As a young girl, she was sent to the convent of Herford, where her reputation for beauty and virtue is said to have attracted the attention of Duke Otto of Saxony, who betrothed her to his son, Henry. They were married in 909 and had three sons and two daughters: Widukind or Wittekind was a Saxon leader, duke of Saxony and one of the heads of the nobility of Westphalia. ... Otto or Oddo (died 30 November 912) was a Saxon nobleman; by later authors, he is often called Otto the Illustrious. ... Henry I, the Fowler (German, Heinrich der Vogler) (876 - July 2, 936), was duke of Saxony from 912 and king of the Germans from 919 until his death in 936. ... This article is for the year 909. ...

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After her husband's death in 936, Mathilda remained at the court of her son Otto, until a cabal of royal advisors is reported to have accused her of weakening the royal treasury in order to pay for her charitable activities. After a brief exile at the Westfalian monastery of Enger, Mathilda was brought back to court at the urging of Otto I's first wife, the Anglo-Saxon princess Edith. Hedwige of Saxony (c. ... Hugh the Great (d. ... For others with the same name, see Otto I (disambiguation). ... Gerberga of Saxony (c. ... Gilbert or Giselbert (c. ... Louis IV dOutremer: King of France 936 to 954, member of the Carolingian dynasty. ... Henry I (919/921 – November 1, 955) was Duke of Bavaria. ... Brun or Bruno I (925-965) was Archbishop of Cologne from 953 until his death, and Duke of Lotharingia from 954. ... Map of Germany showing Enger Enger is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Eadgyth or Edith (910 - 26 January 946)was the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England and Elfleda. ...

Mathilda was celebrated for her devotion to prayer and almsgiving; her first biographer depicted her (in a passage indebted to the sixth-century vita of the Frankish queen Radegund by Venantius Fortunatus) leaving her husband's side in the middle of the night and sneaking off to church to pray. Mathilda founded many religious institutions, including the canonry of Quedlinburg, a center of Ottonian ecclesiastical and secular life and the burial place of Mathilda and her husband, and the convent of Nordhausen, likely the source of at least one of her vitae. She later was canonized, with her cult largely confined to Saxony and Bavaria. Radegund was born to King Berthar, one of the three kings of Thuringia (a kingdom located in present day Germany), some time in the first half of the sixth century. ... Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c. ... Various Religious symbols, including (first row) Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Bahai, (second row) Islamic, tribal, Taoist, Shinto (third row) Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, Jain, (fourth row) Ayyavazhi, Triple Goddess, Maltese cross, pre-Christian Slavonic Religion is the adherence to codified beliefs and rituals that generally involve a faith in a spiritual... Quedlinburg is a town located near the Harz mountains, in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ... Icon of St. ...

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Sources

• Bernd Schütte, ed., Die Lebensbeschreibungen der Königin Mathilda (MGH SSRG 66) (Hahn, 1994)
• Sean Gilsdorf, Queenship and Sanctity: The Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of Adelheid (Catholic University of America Press, 2004)
• Patrick Corbet, Les saints ottoniens. Sainteté dynastique, sainteté royale et sainteté féminine autour de l'an mil (Thorbecke, 1986).
• Winfrid Glocker, Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik (Böhlau Verlag, 1989), 7-18.
• Karl Schmid, "Die Nachfahren Widukinds," Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 20 (1964): 1-47.
• Bernd Schütte, Untersuchungen zu den Lebensbeschreibungen der Königin Mathilde (Hahn, 1994).