Liudolf

“Dux Orientalium Saxonum”

Events

Date of Birth: probably about 805.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Baldwin. Glocker (p. 254) gives between about 805 and 820.

Date of Death: 12 March, 865 or 866.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Baldwin. Giese and Glocker (pp.254-255) give 866.

Place of Burial: Brunshausen, then Gandersheim.

The places are given by Baldwin.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Baldwin notes that he was possibly named Bruno, but the source for this is late.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Oda, daughter of Billung.

This relationship is given by Giesen, by Bouchard (p. 109), and by Baldwin. Glocker (p. 254) estimates the marriage to have taken place between about 825 and 835.

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.)

Bruno (died 2 February 880), duke of Saxony.

Otto “der Erlauchte” (about 840 - 29 November 912), duke of Saxony, married Hadwig.

Hathumod (about 840 - 29 November 874), abbess of Gandersheim.

Liutgard (died 30 November 885) married Ludwig III, king of Saxony.

Enda.

Gerberga (died 5 September, 896 or 897), abbess of Gandersheim.

Christina (died 1 April 919), abbess of Gandersheim.

a son who became a monk.

Thankmar (probably died young).

2 more sons who died young.

a daughter who died young.

(probably) 2 daughters who went into religion.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Liudolf” in The Henry Project. (2011)

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

Bretscher-Gisiger, Ch. Ottonen genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Giese, Wolfgang. “Liudolfinger (Ludolfinger, seit Heinrich I./Otto I. auch Ottonen genannt)”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 14 (1985), S. 718-721 [Onlinefassung].

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).