Matilda of Saxony, Countess of Flanders
Matilda of Saxony was a Saxon aristocrat who became countess of Flanders by marriage to Baldwin III, Count of Flanders.
Life
Matilda was the daughter of Hermann Billung. She first married Baldwin III, count of Flanders. They had:After Baldwin's death, Matilda married Godfrey I, Count of Verdun, with whom she had several children:
- Frederick, count of Verdun
- Godfrey, duke of Lower Lorraine
- Adalberon, bishop of Verdun
- Herman of Ename, count of Brabant
- Gothelo, margrave of Antwerp, duke of Lower and later also Upper Lorraine
- Ermengarde, married Otto of Hammerstein, count in the Wettergau
- Ermentrude, married Arnold de Rumigny, lord of Florennes
- Adela, married Count Godizo of Aspelt. Their daughter Irmgard married Berthold von Walbeck, son of Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark.