Matilda of Frisia
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy datesTemplate:Infobox royalty Matilda of Frisia (died in 1044) was Queen of the Franks as the first wife[1] of Henry I.[2][3] Her date of birth is unknown.
She was the daughter of Liudolf, Margrave of Frisia,[4] and Gertrude of Egisheim.
Matilda and Henry were married in 1034 after the premature death of his fiancée Matilda of Franconia,[5] who was the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II and Gisela of Swabia. Matilda of Frisia was herself Emperor Conrad II's step granddaughter.[6]
Around 1040, Matilda of Frisia gave birth to a daughter via Caesarian section,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". but four years later in 1044 both she and her daughter died only weeks apart.[7] Matilda was buried in St Denis Abbey, but her tomb is not preserved.
Henry married Anne of Kiev after Matilda of Frisia's death.[3][6]
Proposed ancestry
References
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- ↑ Rodulfi Glabri, Historiarum, "Mathildem… de regno eius ex Germanie nobilioribus"
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- ↑ Robert-Henri Bautier, Anne de Kiev, Reine de France, et la Politique Royale au XI E SIÈCLE: Étude Critique De La Documentation. Revue Des études Slaves 57, no. 4 (1985):544.
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- ↑ Jim Bradbury, The Capetians: The History of a Dynasty, 108-109.
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