Hadwig

Events

Date of Birth: between about 917 and 922.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The range of dates is given by Baldwin. Glocker (p. 274) and Settipani (p. 410) give about 922.

Date of Death: about 960 or 965.

Place of Death: unknown.

The range of dates is given by Beumann. Baldwin states that she died after 958. Althoff gives 10 May, after 958.

Relationships

Father: Heinrich I (died 936), king of Germany.

This relationship is given by Beumann, by Hlawitschka, by Glocker, by Settipani (p. 410), by Bouchard (p. 109), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Mathilde (died 968), daughter of count Dietrich.

This relationship is given by Beumann, by Hlawitschka, by Glocker, by Bouchard (p. 109), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Hugues “le Grand” (died 956), duke of the Franks.

This relationship is given by Beumann, by Hlawitschka, by Glocker (pp. 36, 274-5), by Settipani (p. 410), and by Baldwin.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin.)

Béatrix married Frédéric I, count of Bar, duke of Upper Lorraine.

Hugues Capet (died 24 October 996), king of France, married Adélaïde.

Emme married in 960 Richard, leader of the Normans of Rouen.

Otto (died 23 February 965), duke of Burgundy, married Liégard, daughter of Giselbert, duke of Burgundy.

Eudes alias Henri (died 15 October 1002), duke of Burgundy, married (1) Gerberge, daughter of Lambert, count of Chalon; married (2) Gersende, daughter of Guillaume Sanche, duke of Gascony.

References

Althoff, Gerd. Adels- und Königsfamilien im Spiegel ihrer Memorialüberlieferung: Studieren zum Totengedenken der Billunger und Ottonen. (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1984).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Hadwig of Saxony (Hatheuui, Haduidis, Hathawig)” in The Henry Project.

Beumann, Helmut. “Heinrich I.”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 8 (1969), S. 307-310 [Onlinefassung].

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

Hlawitschka, Eduard. Vom Frankenreich zur Formierung der europäishen Staaten- und Völkergemeinschaft 840-1046: Ein Studienbuch. (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 1986).

Settipani, Christian (with Patrick Van Kerrebrouck). La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987. Première Partie (Volume 1 of Nouvelle Histoire Généalogique de l’Auguste Maison de France, 1993).