Mathilde von Arneburg

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 3 December 992.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley. It is recorded by Thietmar of Merseburg (4:17).

Relationships

Father: Bruno, count of Arneburg.

This relationship is given by Ludat and by Warner (Walbeck and Querfurt chart).

Mother: Frederuna.

This relationship is given by Ludat.

Spouse: Lothar (II), count of Walbeck.

This relationship is given by Ludat and by Warner (p. 49). It is recorded by Mathilde’s grandson Thietmar of Merseburg (4:17, 6:43).

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 Cawley.)

Lothar (died 25 January 1003), margrave of the Nordmark, married Godila, daughter of Werner.

Eilika von Walbeck (died 19 August 1015) married Berthold, margrave.

Siegfried (died 15 March 992), count of Walbeck, married Kunigunde von Stade.

Dietmar von Walbeck, abbot of Corvey.

References

Cawley, Charles. “MATHILDE von Arneburg ” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Ludat, Herbert. “Harzgrafen-Familie und Querfurter Geschlecht”, a genealogical table at the end of An Elbe und Oder: Skizzen zur Politik des Ottonenreiches und der slavischen Mächte in Mitteleuropa (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1971).

Thietmar of Merseburg. Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg. Warner, David A. translator and annotator.

Thietmari Merseburgensis episcopi chronicon. Robert Holtzmann, ed. (Berlin 1935). (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores. 6, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova Series ; 9)