Hermann “Billung", duke of Saxony

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 27 or 28 March 973.

Place of Death: Quedlinburg.

The date is given by Baldwin. Schieffer gives the place, and the date 27 March. Mattejiet gives the place, and the date 13 March 973. Althoff (p. 376) notes that the dates 27 March and 28 March (973) are given by different sources.

Place of Burial: Lüneburg St Michael.

The place is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Oda.

This relationship is given by Baldwin and by Althoff (p. 392).

(possible) Spouse: Hildesuith.

This relationship is given by Baldwin. Mattejiet gives Hildegard as Hermann's only wife.

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.)

Bernhard I (died 9 February 1011), duke of Saxony, married Hildegard.

Liudger (died 26 February 1011), count, married Emma.

Mathilde (died 25 May 1009) married (1) Baldwin III of Flanders; married (2) Gottfried.

Swanhild (died 26 November 1014) married Thietmar, margrave of Ostmark; married (2) Ekkehard I, margrave of Meißen.

References

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

Baldwin, Stewart. “Mathilde von Sachsen” in The Henry Project.

Cawley, Charles. “MECHTILD of Saxony” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Freytag, Hans-Joachim. “Hermann Billung”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 8 (1969), S. 640 f. [Onlinefassung].

Mattejiet, U. "Hermann Billung" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4. (Stuttgart: 1989)