Hedwig of Franconia

   Another name for Hedwig was Hathwiga.

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 141:17, Otto, "the illustrious," Duke of Saxony, married Hedwig, daughter of Henrich, Marquis of France, and Duke of Austrasia, who died in battle in Paris, 28 Aug 886. Otto and Hedwig were the parents of Henry I, "the Fowler," Duke of Saxony and King of the Saxons. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Hedwig, daughter of Heinrick and his wife Engeltrudis married Otto "der Erlauchte, son of Liudolf and his wife Oda Billung. "The Annalista Saxo records "Otto" as "filius Liudolfi ducis" [Annalista Saxo 907].. "Hathwiga" is named as wife of Otto in the Annalista Saxo, which in an earlier passage records that the mother of Heinrich was the son of the sister of Adalbert (Babenberg) [Annalista Saxo 902 and 907]. The necrology of Merseburg records the death "24 Dec" of "Hathuui mater Heinrici regis" [Althoff, G. (ed.) (1983) Die Totenbücher von Merseburg, Magdeburg und Lüneburg (Hannover), Merseburg].

Hedwig married Otto "the Illustrious" Duke of Saxony, son of Liudolf Duke of Saxony and Oda. (Otto "the Illustrious" Duke of Saxony was born in 836-851 in Saxony, died on 30 Nov 912 in Saxony and was buried in 912 in Gandersheim Stiftskirche.)