Mathilde Billung

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Mathilde Billung

Birth
Saxony, Germany
Death
25 May 1008 (aged 65–66)
Ghent, Arrondissement Gent, East Flanders, Belgium
Burial
Ghent, Arrondissement Gent, East Flanders, Belgium Add to Map
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Mathilde was the daughter of Hermann Billung and a woman named Oda.
She married first in 961 to Balduin III, Count of Flanders (died January 1, 962), married second Godfrey I of Verdun (died 1002), Count of Verdun (Wigeriche), buried in St. Peter's in Ghent
Child with Balduin
Arnold II of Flanders, future Count of Flanders
Children with Godfrey
Frederick (d. 1022), count of Verdun
Godfrey (d. 1023), count of Verdun and duke of Lower Lorraine (1012-1023)
Adalberon (d. 988) , bishop of Verdun (984-988)
Roger de Verdun (b. 970)
Herman of Ename (d. 1024), count of Brabant (retired as a monk in the abbey of Verdun abt. 1020)
Gothelo (d. 1044), margrave of Antwerp, duke of Lower (1023-1044) and later also Upper (1033-1044) Lorraine
Bertram de Verdun, went to England where he held the manor of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire.
Ermengarde (d. 1042), married Otto of Hammerstein, count in the Wettergau
Ermentrude, married Arnold de Rumigny (d. 1010), lord of Florennes
probably also an unnamed daughter, married Count Godizo of Aspelt
Mathilde was the daughter of Hermann Billung and a woman named Oda.
She married first in 961 to Balduin III, Count of Flanders (died January 1, 962), married second Godfrey I of Verdun (died 1002), Count of Verdun (Wigeriche), buried in St. Peter's in Ghent
Child with Balduin
Arnold II of Flanders, future Count of Flanders
Children with Godfrey
Frederick (d. 1022), count of Verdun
Godfrey (d. 1023), count of Verdun and duke of Lower Lorraine (1012-1023)
Adalberon (d. 988) , bishop of Verdun (984-988)
Roger de Verdun (b. 970)
Herman of Ename (d. 1024), count of Brabant (retired as a monk in the abbey of Verdun abt. 1020)
Gothelo (d. 1044), margrave of Antwerp, duke of Lower (1023-1044) and later also Upper (1033-1044) Lorraine
Bertram de Verdun, went to England where he held the manor of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire.
Ermengarde (d. 1042), married Otto of Hammerstein, count in the Wettergau
Ermentrude, married Arnold de Rumigny (d. 1010), lord of Florennes
probably also an unnamed daughter, married Count Godizo of Aspelt