Liutgard of Saxony

• Wikipedia
• Medlands

  ---

LIUDOLF, son of BRUNO & his wife --- (-11 Mar 866, bur Brunshausen).
m ODA, daughter of BILLUNG princeps & his wife Aeda (-17 May 913).

Liudolf & his wife had [twelve] children:
1. BRUNO (-killed in battle in Saxony 2 Feb 880).
2. OTTO "der Erlauchte" (-30 Nov 912[121], bur Gandersheim Stiftskirche).
3. THANKMAR

4. LIUTGARD (-17 or 30 Nov 885, bur Aschaffenburg). Widukind names "Liudgardam sororem Brunonis ac magni ducis Oddonis" as wife of "orientales Francos imperantium Hluthowicus"[146]. "Hludowicus…rex" made a donation of property in "villa…Winenheim" to Kloster Lorsch in the name of "comiti…Werinhario" by charter dated 4 Jan 877, naming "coniuge nostra Liutgarda"[147]. The necrology of Fulda records the death in 885 of "Liutgart regina"[148]. The death and burial place of "Liudgardis regina" are recorded in the Annalista Saxo[149].
m (before 29 Nov 874) LUDWIG, son of LUDWIG II "der Deutsche" King of the East Franks & his wife Emma [Welf] ([835]-Frankfurt-am-Main 20 Jan 882, bur Kloster Lorsch). He succeeded his father in 876 as LUDWIG III "der Jüngere" King of the East Franks, Saxony and ½ Lotharingia. King of Bavaria 879. King of Lotharingia 880.
King Ludwig III & his wife had two children:

a) HILDEGARD ([875/76]-after 899). Her parentage is confirmed by the Annales Fuldenses which record that "Hildigardis filia Hludowici Francorum regis" was accused of treason in 895 and confined to "Baioaria quadam insula palude Chiemiese"[51]. It is assumed that she was adult at the time, which suggests that Hildegard must have been her parents' older child. Hildegard is named in three charters which all state that she was "neptis" of Emperor Arnulf but which do not name her parents. "Arnolfus…rex" granted property "in Franciæ…quas…homines Deotrih…et Gozuuin antea…habuerunt [et] in pago Puohunna…in comitatu filiorum Heimrici comitis in loco Toftaha" to Wigand vassal of "neptis nostræ Hiltigardæ" by charter dated 9 Feb 888[52]. "Arnolfus rex" donated land "in Cruft et in Claechheim et in Hliurithi in comitatu Irmenfredi" to Kloster Gandersheim on the intervention of "coniugis sue Otæ…et Hildigarde…neptis eius" by an undated charter, placed in the compilation among charters dated [891/92][53]. "Arnolfus…rex" returned land in "pago Nortgowe in comitatu Cheldionis", previously taken by "Hildigardis neptis nostra et Engeldichd comes…et Sigo vicarius eius", to "Megingozo vasallo…Erkenboldi episcopi" by charter dated 5 May 895[54]. The close connection with Graf Engildeo, shown by this last charter, is curious. In addition, the Annales Fuldensis record the confiscation of the properties of both Engildeo and Hildegard in the same paragraph, but give no explanation or reason for the punishment. The connection is best explained by a close family relationship, but this has not been identified. A love affair between the two appears less likely, although not impossible, in view of the considerable age difference: Graf Engildeo was presumably already adult in 878, the date of the first of the charters in which he is named. Hildegard's properties were restored to her in 899[55].
b) LUDWIG ([877/78]-Frankfurt-am-Main [Nov] 879). Regino names "Hludowicum" as the only son of "Hludowicum rex" and his wife Liutgard when recording his death at the palace of Frankfurt after accidentally falling from a window[56].

5. ENDA .
6. HATHUMOD (840-29 Sep 874, bur Brunnshausen).
7. GERBERGA (-5 Sep [896/97])
8. CHRISTINA (-1 Apr [919/20], bur Gandersheim Stiftskirche)
9. daughter (-young).
10. son (-young).
11. son (-young).
12. [son (-young).

• http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SAXONY.htm#Liudolfdied866B
• https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/GERMANY,%20Kings.htm#LudwigIIIEast...

  ---