Born ‎± ABT. 890 at Ringelheim, Goslar, Hannover, Germany, died ‎ Mar 14, 967/68 at Hereford Monastery, Rheinland Palatinate, Germany‎, approximately 77 years, buried ‎ May 14, 968
Name: Mathilda von RINGELHEIM Queen
Surname: Ringelheim
Given Name: Mathilda von
NSFX: Queen
_AKA: Mechtilde
Sex: F
Birth: 0890 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hanover, Germany
Death: 14 Mar 0968 in Memleben, Saxony, Germany
Burial: 14 May 0968
Reference Number: Minor,Newl
_UID: 84CC0DA50C6AF84497B6DB3E3CB3231A46F0
Note:
!Wife of Henry I, the Fowler; mother of Princess Gerberga. [Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p. 164]

MINOR, NEWLIN LINES - 30th ggrandmother

Of Saxon Hamelant; m. Henry the Fowler, King of Lorraine & Germany; mother of Hedwig. [Charlemagne & others, Chart 3318]

Dau. of Theodoric/Dietrich and Reginhilde; m. Henry I the Fowler; mother of Gerberge of Germany. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD1, CD00
Author: Automated Archives, Inc.
Publication: Genealogical Research System, 1994
From 'Glick/Foster Ancestry' at Rootsweb.com

Born ‎ 876 at Saxony, Germany, died ‎ Jul 2, 936 at Memleben, Saxony, Germany‎, 59 or 60 years, ‎1st marriage to: Mech, ‎2nd marriage to: Mechtilde of "St. Matilda; Feast Day is March 14." Ringleheim, Countess of Ringleheim, ‎3rd marriage to: Mechtilde of "St. Matilda; Feast Day is March 14." Ringleheim, Countess of Ringleheim
Name: Henry I the Fowler L'Oseleur LIUDOLFING King of Germany
Surname: Liudolfing
Given Name: Henry I the Fowler L'Oseleur
NSFX: King of Germany
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 0876 in of Saxony, Germany
Death: 2 Jul 0936 in Memleben, Saxony, Germany
Reference Number: Minor,Newl
_UID: 226B7AE42667F04AB9FAC96AC52635843CAE
Note:
!The first of the Saxon line of German kings. In 912 Henry succeeded his father as duke of Saxony. Following the death of Conrad I, king of Germany, in 918, Henry was chosen king by the Franconian and Saxon nobles. Bavaria, Swabia, and Lotharingia refused to acknowledge him at first, and it was not until 925 that he managed to win recognition from all the German states. In 926 Henry secured a 9-year truce from warfare with the Magyars. During that period he transformed many of the small towns of Germany into fortified cities with trained troops of mounted warriors. His military preparations were successfully tested in a war against the Wends in 929. When the Magyars
invaded Thuringia in 933, Henry repulsed them decisively. He defeated the Danes in the following year and seized territory from them. Henry was the first to create a united Germany, and although he never received the imperial crown, he is generally recognized as one of the Holy Roman emperors. He was succeeded by his son, Otto. [Funk & Wagnalls]

MINOR, NEWLIN LINES - 30th ggrandfather

!Emperor of Germany. [Desc. of Charlemagne]

!919 - becomes king of Germany
925 - conquers Lorraine
928 - conquers the Slav province of Brennabor (Brandenburg)
929 - subdues Bohemia and the Slavs east of the Elbe River933 - defeats Hungarians at Merseburg
934 - acquires the Schleswig marches
936 - dies and is succeeded by his son Otto I the Great
[Timetables of History]

!Constructed castles similar to the Polish forts to counter attacks by the Magyar, Danes and Slavs. [The Oxford History of Medieval Europe]

!Designated by Conrad I, his succession was initially recognized only within his own duchy, Saxony, and Conrad's, Franconia. Force having failed, he was obliged to gain recognition from the dukes of Swabia and Bavaria by allowing them to appoint bishops within their territories and by allowing them to take over the crown lands. With these grants he appeared to have conceded the essentials of kingship; estates upon which the ruler and his entourage might stay when travelling through the kingdom to hear pleas, offices which could be filled with trusted servants. By the time of Henry's death the losses had been recovered. The course of German history is not one of smooth development within which the monarchy could establish its own authority and traditions; nor was it one of an inevitable degeneration into princely particularism. Rather it lay in violent oscillation between the two. [Oxford History]

!Henry I's success lay upon two foundations. As a vigorous war-leader he was able to contain the threat from Denmark to the north of his duchy, and in 933 to inflict a major defeat upon the Magyars, who had menaced the whole of eastern Germany and many points further west since their destruction of the Moravian kingdom in 906. The scale of the threat made the dukes his far from
unwilling partners, and it brought other rulers, Wenceslaus of Bohemia chief among them, under his overlordship. Henry's other asset lay in the comparatively recent rise of his family, the Liudolfings; he had been duke of Saxony only from 912, by marriage into the ducal house. The law of consanguinity was not yet fully defined, and churchmen were as yet hesitant in invoking it, but it was already the case that marriage could for several generations prevent the marriage of descendants; in time the number of generations was defined as seven, but this was not strictly enforced. A new dynasty thus had the advantage of an old one, for it still had a reasonably free choice of the politically most advantageous marriages before it. The asset was naturally a wasting one, but it helped Henry draw Lotharingia back into the kingdom under his brother-in-law, Duke Giselbert, and was to be a major element in the success of his son and successor, Otto I. [Oxford History]

!First Saxon King of Germany; merely overlord of the federation of duchies. Control over Suabia, Bavaria, and Lotharingia established, and Magyars (Hungarians) defeated. Succeeded by his ons, Otto I. [Leaders & Landmarks, Vol. II, p. 233]

!Germany took a new stand when the dying Conrad of Franconia was magnanimous enough to recommend for this crown his rival the Saxon Duke, Henry the Fowler. Henry defied the Huns, beat them in a great fight at Merseburg, and fortified the frontier against them by building not only castles but walled cities, while he enloisted in his service many of the turbulent knights, whom he bound to such laws of honor and religion as evince a new spirit of dutiful chivalry. [Leaders & Landmarks, Vol. II, p. 34]

!Henry I, the Fowler, l'Oiseleur, Emperor of Germany, Duke of Saxony, Brunswick and Zelle; b. abt 876; d. July 2, 936; m. 2. 911, Mathilda Ringelheim; father of Princess Hatwide/Hatwin/Hawise/Hatwige. [Ped of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p. 63, 124]

!Widukind in Res gestae Saxonicae and other German chronicles says, that to punish the Danes for harrying in Frisia Henry the Fowler invaded their territory in 934, chastised them soundly and forced them to pay him tribute, and made their King Chunuba submit to baptism. Gorm, son of Hardaknut, was a heathen persecutor of Christian men, who so angered Henry the Fowler that he invaded Denmark and made his unheroic adversary sue for peace, whereupon Henry `drew his kingdom's boundary at Slesvig, which is now called Hedeby, established a march (borderland), and ordered that a colony of Saxons should become resident there'. In light of Henry's invasion of the same area in 934, when he humbled the heather Gnupa, and his own death soon afterwards in 936, there must be a substantial confusion of events and persons here; but German pressure was strong upon Denmark at this time, and to continue with Gorm, it is unlikely that he was strong enough to resist it entirely. [A History of the Vikings, pp. 112, 114]

Heinrich I L'Oseleur [Cole Waite}

per Ances of Pres
"Henry I the Fowler", German emperor

per Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants
compiled by Marcellus Donald Alexander R. von Redlich
vol 1 1986

Son of Otto the Illustrious and Hedwig; m. Mathilda of Ringleheim; father of
Gerberge of Germany. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD00]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Change Date: 19 Mar 2003 at 17:13:00

Father: Otho I the Illustrious der Erlauchte, Duke of SAXONY b: ABT 0836 in of Saxony,Germany
Mother: Hedwige Edith of GERMANY b: ABT 0855 in of Ostfranken, Germany

Marriage 1 Hartheburg of Merseburg de MERSEBURG b: ABT 0880 in of Merseburg,,,Germany
Married: ABT 0905 in Saxony, Germany
Children
Henry, Duke of LOTHARINGIA & BAVARIA b: ABT 0910 in ,,,Germany

Marriage 2 Mathilda von RINGELHEIM Queen b: 0890 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hanover, Germany
Married: 0909/0911 in ,,,Germany
Children
Hedwig, Princess OF SAXONY b: 0910 in of Lorraine,Saxony,Germany
Otto I the Great Emperor of West b: 23 Nov 0912 in of Saxony, Germany
Gerberga VON SACHSEN Princess of Germany b: ABT 0912/0913 in Nordhausen,Saxony,Germany
Henry I ,Duke of BAVARIA, LORRAINE & SAXONY b: 0919/0922 in of Bavaria,of Lorraine,of Saxony,Germany
Bruno I KOLN Archbishop of Cologne b: ABT 0925 in Saxony, Germany
of SAXONY b: ABT 0927 in Saxony, Germany

Sources:
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Author: Bram, Leon L. V.P. and Ed. Dir.; Dickey, Norma H. Editor-in-Chief
Publication: Funk & Wagnalls, Inc., 1986
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: The Timetables of History
Author: Grun, Bernard
Publication: Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 1982
Title: Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. I
Author: von Redlich, Marcellus Donald Alexander R.
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986
Page: pp. 63, 124
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: The Oxford History of Medieval Europe
Author: Holmes, George, ed.
Publication: Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1992
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: Leaders & Landmarks in European History, Volume II: The Middle Ages
Author: Moncrieff, A.R. Hope; Chaytor, The Rev. H.J., M.A..
Publication: The Gresham Publishing Company, London, 1913
Page: p. 34, 233
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: A History of the Vikings
Author: Jones, Gwyn
Publication: Oxford University Press, New York and Toronto, 1968
Page: pp. 112, 114
Title: Ancestors of American Presidents
Author: Roberts
Glick/Foster Ancestry at Rootsweb.com

Born ‎ 876 at Saxony, Germany, died ‎ Jul 2, 936 at Memleben, Saxony, Germany‎, 59 or 60 years, ‎1st marriage to: Mech, ‎2nd marriage to: Mechtilde of "St. Matilda; Feast Day is March 14." Ringleheim, Countess of Ringleheim, ‎3rd marriage to: Mechtilde of "St. Matilda; Feast Day is March 14." Ringleheim, Countess of Ringleheim
Name: Henry I the Fowler L'Oseleur LIUDOLFING King of Germany
Surname: Liudolfing
Given Name: Henry I the Fowler L'Oseleur
NSFX: King of Germany
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 0876 in of Saxony, Germany
Death: 2 Jul 0936 in Memleben, Saxony, Germany
Reference Number: Minor,Newl
_UID: 226B7AE42667F04AB9FAC96AC52635843CAE
Note:
!The first of the Saxon line of German kings. In 912 Henry succeeded his father as duke of Saxony. Following the death of Conrad I, king of Germany, in 918, Henry was chosen king by the Franconian and Saxon nobles. Bavaria, Swabia, and Lotharingia refused to acknowledge him at first, and it was not until 925 that he managed to win recognition from all the German states. In 926 Henry secured a 9-year truce from warfare with the Magyars. During that period he transformed many of the small towns of Germany into fortified cities with trained troops of mounted warriors. His military preparations were successfully tested in a war against the Wends in 929. When the Magyars
invaded Thuringia in 933, Henry repulsed them decisively. He defeated the Danes in the following year and seized territory from them. Henry was the first to create a united Germany, and although he never received the imperial crown, he is generally recognized as one of the Holy Roman emperors. He was succeeded by his son, Otto. [Funk & Wagnalls]

MINOR, NEWLIN LINES - 30th ggrandfather

!Emperor of Germany. [Desc. of Charlemagne]

!919 - becomes king of Germany
925 - conquers Lorraine
928 - conquers the Slav province of Brennabor (Brandenburg)
929 - subdues Bohemia and the Slavs east of the Elbe River933 - defeats Hungarians at Merseburg
934 - acquires the Schleswig marches
936 - dies and is succeeded by his son Otto I the Great
[Timetables of History]

!Constructed castles similar to the Polish forts to counter attacks by the Magyar, Danes and Slavs. [The Oxford History of Medieval Europe]

!Designated by Conrad I, his succession was initially recognized only within his own duchy, Saxony, and Conrad's, Franconia. Force having failed, he was obliged to gain recognition from the dukes of Swabia and Bavaria by allowing them to appoint bishops within their territories and by allowing them to take over the crown lands. With these grants he appeared to have conceded the essentials of kingship; estates upon which the ruler and his entourage might stay when travelling through the kingdom to hear pleas, offices which could be filled with trusted servants. By the time of Henry's death the losses had been recovered. The course of German history is not one of smooth development within which the monarchy could establish its own authority and traditions; nor was it one of an inevitable degeneration into princely particularism. Rather it lay in violent oscillation between the two. [Oxford History]

!Henry I's success lay upon two foundations. As a vigorous war-leader he was able to contain the threat from Denmark to the north of his duchy, and in 933 to inflict a major defeat upon the Magyars, who had menaced the whole of eastern Germany and many points further west since their destruction of the Moravian kingdom in 906. The scale of the threat made the dukes his far from
unwilling partners, and it brought other rulers, Wenceslaus of Bohemia chief among them, under his overlordship. Henry's other asset lay in the comparatively recent rise of his family, the Liudolfings; he had been duke of Saxony only from 912, by marriage into the ducal house. The law of consanguinity was not yet fully defined, and churchmen were as yet hesitant in invoking it, but it was already the case that marriage could for several generations prevent the marriage of descendants; in time the number of generations was defined as seven, but this was not strictly enforced. A new dynasty thus had the advantage of an old one, for it still had a reasonably free choice of the politically most advantageous marriages before it. The asset was naturally a wasting one, but it helped Henry draw Lotharingia back into the kingdom under his brother-in-law, Duke Giselbert, and was to be a major element in the success of his son and successor, Otto I. [Oxford History]

!First Saxon King of Germany; merely overlord of the federation of duchies. Control over Suabia, Bavaria, and Lotharingia established, and Magyars (Hungarians) defeated. Succeeded by his ons, Otto I. [Leaders & Landmarks, Vol. II, p. 233]

!Germany took a new stand when the dying Conrad of Franconia was magnanimous enough to recommend for this crown his rival the Saxon Duke, Henry the Fowler. Henry defied the Huns, beat them in a great fight at Merseburg, and fortified the frontier against them by building not only castles but walled cities, while he enloisted in his service many of the turbulent knights, whom he bound to such laws of honor and religion as evince a new spirit of dutiful chivalry. [Leaders & Landmarks, Vol. II, p. 34]

!Henry I, the Fowler, l'Oiseleur, Emperor of Germany, Duke of Saxony, Brunswick and Zelle; b. abt 876; d. July 2, 936; m. 2. 911, Mathilda Ringelheim; father of Princess Hatwide/Hatwin/Hawise/Hatwige. [Ped of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p. 63, 124]

!Widukind in Res gestae Saxonicae and other German chronicles says, that to punish the Danes for harrying in Frisia Henry the Fowler invaded their territory in 934, chastised them soundly and forced them to pay him tribute, and made their King Chunuba submit to baptism. Gorm, son of Hardaknut, was a heathen persecutor of Christian men, who so angered Henry the Fowler that he invaded Denmark and made his unheroic adversary sue for peace, whereupon Henry `drew his kingdom's boundary at Slesvig, which is now called Hedeby, established a march (borderland), and ordered that a colony of Saxons should become resident there'. In light of Henry's invasion of the same area in 934, when he humbled the heather Gnupa, and his own death soon afterwards in 936, there must be a substantial confusion of events and persons here; but German pressure was strong upon Denmark at this time, and to continue with Gorm, it is unlikely that he was strong enough to resist it entirely. [A History of the Vikings, pp. 112, 114]

Heinrich I L'Oseleur [Cole Waite}

per Ances of Pres
"Henry I the Fowler", German emperor

per Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants
compiled by Marcellus Donald Alexander R. von Redlich
vol 1 1986

Son of Otto the Illustrious and Hedwig; m. Mathilda of Ringleheim; father of
Gerberge of Germany. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD00]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Change Date: 19 Mar 2003 at 17:13:00

Father: Otho I the Illustrious der Erlauchte, Duke of SAXONY b: ABT 0836 in of Saxony,Germany
Mother: Hedwige Edith of GERMANY b: ABT 0855 in of Ostfranken, Germany

Marriage 1 Hartheburg of Merseburg de MERSEBURG b: ABT 0880 in of Merseburg,,,Germany
Married: ABT 0905 in Saxony, Germany
Children
Henry, Duke of LOTHARINGIA & BAVARIA b: ABT 0910 in ,,,Germany

Marriage 2 Mathilda von RINGELHEIM Queen b: 0890 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hanover, Germany
Married: 0909/0911 in ,,,Germany
Children
Hedwig, Princess OF SAXONY b: 0910 in of Lorraine,Saxony,Germany
Otto I the Great Emperor of West b: 23 Nov 0912 in of Saxony, Germany
Gerberga VON SACHSEN Princess of Germany b: ABT 0912/0913 in Nordhausen,Saxony,Germany
Henry I ,Duke of BAVARIA, LORRAINE & SAXONY b: 0919/0922 in of Bavaria,of Lorraine,of Saxony,Germany
Bruno I KOLN Archbishop of Cologne b: ABT 0925 in Saxony, Germany
of SAXONY b: ABT 0927 in Saxony, Germany

Sources:
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Author: Bram, Leon L. V.P. and Ed. Dir.; Dickey, Norma H. Editor-in-Chief
Publication: Funk & Wagnalls, Inc., 1986
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: The Timetables of History
Author: Grun, Bernard
Publication: Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 1982
Title: Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. I
Author: von Redlich, Marcellus Donald Alexander R.
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986
Page: pp. 63, 124
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: The Oxford History of Medieval Europe
Author: Holmes, George, ed.
Publication: Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1992
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: Leaders & Landmarks in European History, Volume II: The Middle Ages
Author: Moncrieff, A.R. Hope; Chaytor, The Rev. H.J., M.A..
Publication: The Gresham Publishing Company, London, 1913
Page: p. 34, 233
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: A History of the Vikings
Author: Jones, Gwyn
Publication: Oxford University Press, New York and Toronto, 1968
Page: pp. 112, 114
Title: Ancestors of American Presidents
Author: Roberts
Glick/Foster Ancestry at Rootsweb.com