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Personal data Hendrik I "de Vogelaar" van Saksen 

• Nickname is de Vogelaar.
• He was born about 876 in Saksen-Anhalt, Duitsland.
• Title: Koning van Duitsland
• Title: Hertog van Saksen
• He died on July 2, 936 in Memleben, Saksen-Anhalt, Duitsland.
• A child of Otto I van Saksen and Hedwig van Babenberg

Household of Hendrik I "de Vogelaar" van Saksen

He is married to Mathilda van Ringelheim.

They got married in the year 909.

Child(ren):

1. Otto I van Saksen Ludolf  912-973 
2. Hedwig van Saksen  920-965 
3. Gerberga van Saksen  ± 914-984 
4. Hendrik I van Saksen-Ludolf  922-955 
5. Bruno de Grote  ± 925-965

Notes about Hendrik I "de Vogelaar" van Saksen

HEINRICH, son of OTTO "der Erlauchte" Graf [im Südthüringau] & his wife Hedwig [Babenberg] ([876]-Memleben[142] 2 Jul 936, bur Quedlinburg Stiftskirche). Thietmar records that Heinrich was "born of the noble lineage of Otto and Hadwig"[143]. According to the Annalista Saxo, he was son of the unnamed sister of Adalbert [Babenberg], with whom he and his brothers fought against the Konradiner family, his complete parentage being recorded in a later passage[144]. He was elected as HEINRICH I "der Vogelsteller/the Fowler" King of Germany at Fritzlar 6 May 919, but Thietmar reports that he refused unction offered by Heriger Archbishop of Mainz[145]. King Heinrich re-established Saxon domination over the Slavs after successful campaigns against the Hevelli in 928 and against the Daleminzi and Bohemians in 929[146]. Thietmar records that he founded Meissen in [928/29][147], and defeated "Knud I" King of Denmark[148]. Widukind records that he defeated the Magyars at the battle of Riade near Merseburg in 933, their first major setback in their raids on western Europe[149]. The necrology of Fulda records the death "936 Kal Iul" of "Heinrih rex"[150]. Thietmar records the death of King Heinrich 2 Jul 936 at Memleben "in the…sixtieth year of his life" and his burial at Quedlinburg "which he himself had constructed from the ground up"[151]. The necrology of Merseburg records the death "2 Jul" of "Heinricus rex pater magni Oddonis"[152].

m firstly (906, divorced 909) as her second husband, HATHEBURG, widow of ---, daughter of EBERWIN & his wife ---. Thietmar names Hatheburg as daughter of "lord Erwin", specifying that she was widowed (without naming her first husband), when recording her marriage to Heinrich[153]. Widukind records the mother of "Thancmari" as "filia materteræ Sigifridi"[154]. She had become a nun after the death of her first husband, which presumably provided the reason for "the outrage perpetrated through this marriage" and the basis for the couple's separation which is not explicitly expressed as such by Thietmar[155].

m secondly (Wallhausen 909) MATHILDE, daughter of Graf THEODERICH [Immedinger] & his wife Reginlind --- ([896]-Quedlinburg 14 Mar 968, bur Quedlinburg Stiftskirche). Widukind names "Mahthilda" as wife of King Heinrich, also naming her father and three brothers[156]. Thietmar names Mathilde as daughter of "Dietrich and Reinhild" when recording her marriage to Heinrich, specifying the was "a descendant of the lineage of King Widukind"[157]. Her alleged descent from Widukind is also referred to in the Vita Mahthildis[158]. Thietmar records that Quedlinburg was bestowed on Mathilde as part of her dower 16 Sep 929[159], and that she established the convent there thirty days after the death of her husband[160]. She played an active part in encouraging the rebellion of her son Heinrich in 939 and was included in the reconciliation of 941[161]. Lay Abbess of Nivelles. Thietmar records the death of Queen Mathilde on 14 Mar, without specifying the year[162]. The necrology of Fulda records the death "968 2 Id Mar" of "Mahthild regina"[163].

King Heinrich & his first wife had one child:
THANKMAR ([907/09]-murdered Eresburg 28 Jul 938).

King Heinrich & his second wife had five children:
OTTO (23 Nov 912-Memleben 7 May 973, bur Magdeburg cathedral).
GERBERGA (Nordhausen [913/14]-Reims 5 May 984, bur Abbaye de Reims)
HEINRICH ([Dec 919/22 Apr 922]-Regensburg 1 Nov 955, bur Regensburg St Emmeran)
HEDWIG ([922]-9 Jan [958 or after 965])
BRUNO (May 925-Reims 11 Oct 965, bur Köln St Pantaleon)

Bronnen:

[142] Vita Mathildis Reginæ 8, MGH SS IV, p. 288, which calls the town "Imilebun".

[143] Thietmar 1.3, p. 68.

[144] Annalista Saxo 902 and 907.

[145] Thietmar 1.8, p. 73.

[146] Reuter (1991), pp. 143-4.

[147] Thietmar 1.16, p. 79.

[148] Thietmar 1.17, p. 80.

[149] Widukind 1.38, pp. 56-7, quoted in Thietmar, p. 79, footnote 47.

[150] Annales Necrologici Fuldenses, MGH SS XIII, p. 123.

[151] Thietmar 1.18-19, p. 81.

[152] Althoff, G. (ed.) (1983) Die Totenbücher von Merseburg, Magdeburg und Lüneburg (Hannover), Merseburg.

[153] Thietmar 1.5, p. 70.

[154] Widukindi Res Gestæ Saxonicæ II.4 and 9, MGH SS III, pp. 439 and 440.

[155] Thietmar 1.5 and 1.6, pp. 70 and 71.

[156] Widukindi Res Gestæ Saxonicæ I.31, MGH SS III, pp. 430-1.

[157] Thietmar 1.9, p. 74.

[158] Vita Mahthildis Reginæ Antiquior 1, MGH SS X, p. 575.

[159] Thietmar, p. 83, footnote 64.

[160] Thietmar 1.21, p. 82.

[161] Reuter (1991), p. 153.

[162] Thietmar 2.18, p. 105.

[163] Annales Necrologici Fuldenses, MGH SS XIII, p. 123.

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