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Personal data Othilde van Saksen 

• She was born about 988.
• She died between 1043 and 1044.
• A child of Bernard van Brandenburg and Vladimirovna van Kiev

Household of Othilde van Saksen

She is married to Dirk III van Holland.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Dirk IV van Holland  ± 1016-1049
2. Swanhilde van Holland  ????-1100 
3. Floris I van Holland  ± 1030-1061 

Notes about Othilde van Saksen

OTHELINDIS (-in Saxony 9 Mar [1043/44], bur in Saxony). The Annales Egmundani name "Othelhildis comitissa" as wife of "Theodericus comes quartus [Hollandensium]" but do not give her origin[15]. According to Europäische Stammtafeln[16], the wife of Count Dirk III was the daughter of Bernhard I Markgraf der Nordmark Graf von Haldensleben, but the primary source on which this is based has not so far been identified. The Chronologia Johannes de Beke records the marriage of "Theodericus…tercius…comes Hollandie" and "Utilhildim filiam…ducis Saxonie"[17]. The corresponding duke of Saxony would have been the Billung Duke Bernhard I (who died in 1011). However, if Duke Bernhard was Othelindis's father, the wife of Count Dirk III's son Count Floris would have been his first cousin on his mother's side, which seems unlikely to be correct. "Theodericus…Holtlandensis comes…Florentii filius" recites the ownership history of properties claimed by the church of Utrecht in Holland, including donations by "Theodericus tertius, predicti Arnulfi filius, cum coniuge sua Othelhildis", by spurious charter dated 26 Jul 1083, probably written in [1130][18]. The Annales Egmundani record the death in 1044 of "Othilhildis comitissa"[19]. The Chronologia Johannes de Beke records that "Othilhildis…comitissa" returned to Saxony after her husband died, and that she died there "1043 VII Id Mai" and was buried there[20]. Beke's Egmondsch Necrologium records the death "1043 VII Id Mar" of "Othelhildis comitissa rediens ad Saxoniam"[21]. m DIRK III Count of Holland, son of ARNULF Count of Holland & his wife Liutgard de Luxembourg (-27 May 1039).]

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[15] Annales Egmundani, MGH SS XVI, p. 444.

[16] ES II 2.

[17] Bruch, H. (ed.) (1973) Chronologia Johannes de Beke (The Hague), 39a, p. 73, available at < http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten /KroniekVanJohannesDeBekeTot1430/latijn> (31 Aug 2006).

[18] Koch (1970) Oorkondenboek van Holland en Zeeland Part I, nr. 88, Latin text and English translation available at <http://www.keesn.nl/sources/en_start.htm> (31 Aug 2006), information supplied by Kees Nieuwenhuijsen, in a private email to the author dated 31 Aug 2006.

[19] Annales Egmundani 1044, MGH SS XVI, p. 447.

[20] Chronologia Johannes de Beke 43, p. 81.

[21] Beka's Egmondsch Necrologium, in Oppermann, O. (1933) Fontes Egmundenses (Utrecht), p. 107.

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