Events
Date of Birth: Summer 978.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Glocker (p. 295). 979 is given by the PmbZO.
Date of Death: 4 December 1025.
Place of Death: Echtz.
The date and place are given by Cawley. Glocker (p. 295) gives the date as 4 November 1025.
Place of Burial: Abtei Brauweiler.
The place is given by Cawley.
Relationships
Father: Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor.
This relationship is given by Seibert, by Hlawitschka, by Bouchard (p. 109), and by Glocker (p. 211, p. 295).
Mother: Theophanu.
This relationship is given by Seibert, by Hlawitschka, by Bouchard (p. 109), and by Glocker (p. 211, p. 295).
Spouse: Ezzo, count palatine in Lotharingia.
This relationship is given by Uhlirz, by Hlawitschka, and by Glocker (pp. 211-213, 295).
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 Uhlirz and Cawley.)
Richeza (died 21 March 1063) married Mieszko II Lambert, king of Poland.
Ludolf (died 11 April 1031) married Mathilde von Zutphen.
Otto (died 7 September 1047), duke of Swabia.
Hermann (died 11 February 1056), archbishop of Cologne.
Adelheid, abbess in Nivelles.
Theophanu (died 5 March 1056), abbess in Essen.
Heylwig (died September 1076), abbess in Neuß.
Mathilde, abbess in Dietkirchen and Villich.
Sophie, abbess in Mainz and Gandersheim.
Ida (died April 1060), abbess in St. Maria ad Gradus in Cologne.
References
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.
Cawley, Charles. “MATHILDE” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
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).
Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Claudia Ludwig; Beate Zielke, and Thomas Pratsch. Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften [consulted 2 February 2018]. “Theophanu”, Personenkennziffer 28127
Seibert, Hubertus. “Otto II”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 19 (1998), S. 660-662 [Onlinefassung].
Uhlirz, Mathilde. “Ezzo”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 4 (1959), S. 715 f. [Onlinefassung].