Theoderic Count of Ringleheim

  General Notes:

~ Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 141:18, 142:17, Dietrich, father of Mechtilde of Ringelheim who married Henry I, "the Fowler." ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Theodric.
Widukind names "Thiadrici" as father of Queen Mathilde, specifying that the family was "stirpis magni ducis Widukindi" [Widukindi Res Gestæ Saxonicæ I.31, MGH SS III, p. 431.]. The father of Queen Mathilde is named "Thietricus" in the Vita Mathildis Reginæ [Vita Mathildis Reginæ 2, MGH SS IV, p. 285].

Theoderic married Reinhild, daughter of Godefrid Haraldsson and Gisela de Lorraine.