Mathilda of Saxony

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 147:21, Matilda of Saxony, daughter of Otto II, King of Germany and his wife Theophana, married Ezzo, Count of Lorraine. Matilda and Ezzo were the parents of rixa, wife of Mieszislav II Lambert, King of Poland. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Crawley's Medieval Lands, Mathilde of Germany .
Matilda was the daughter of Otto II, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Theophano, niece of Emperor Ioannes Tzmisces.

The Vita Godehardi names "Mahtildis domnæ Sophiæ sororis" as wife of "Ezonis palatine comitis" [Wolfherii Vita Godehardi Episcopi Hildenesheimensis, Vita Prior 29, MGH SS XI, p. 188]. Thietmar records that "Mathilde the emperor's sister married Ezzo, who was the son of Hermann the count palatine", commenting that "this displeased many" [Thietmar 4.60, p. 194, footnote 165].

Mathilda married Ezzo Comte de Lorraine, son of Hermann "Pusillius," Pfalzgraf of Lower Lotharingia and Heylwig, before 15 Jun 991.⁷⁵⁵ (Ezzo Comte de Lorraine was born about 955 in Lotharingia, died on 21 May 1034 in Saalfeld ⁷⁵⁵ and was buried in 1034 in Brauweiler Abbey ⁷⁵⁵.)