Mathilde

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MATHILDE, daughter of --- ([1025/26]-Paris 1044, bur église de l'Abbaye royale de Saint-Denis). Rodolfus Glaber records that King Henri married "Mathildem…de regno eius ex Germanie nobilioribus". Her precise origin is not known. A manuscript entitled "Excerptum Historicum" records the marriage of "rex Henricus" and "neptem Henrici Alamannorum Imperatoris", commenting that the couple had a daughter who died young and that King Henri's wife died soon after. The Historia of Monk Aimon records that King Henri married "neptem Henrici Alamaniæ Imperatoris" in 1034. Szabolcs de Vajay suggests that she was Mathilde , daughter of Liudolf Markgraf von Friesland [Braunschweig] & his wife Gertrud von Egisheim, her supposed father being the uterine half-brother of Emperor Heinrich III. The Historia Francica records the death in 1044 of "Mahildis Regina". The Miracula Sancti Bernardi records the death in Paris in 1044 of "Mahildis regina…ex Cæsarum progenie", and her burial "monasterio Sancti Dionysii".

Mathilde married Henri I de France Roi de France, son of Robert II de France Roi de France and Constance de Provence, on 19 May 1051 in Rheims [now Reims], Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, 51100, FR. (Henri I de France Roi de France was born between 1009 and May 1010,¹ died on 4 Aug 1060 in Vitry-aux-Loges, Loiret, Centre, 45530, FR ¹ and was buried in Abbaye de Saint-Denis [now Cathédrale royale de Saint-Denis], 1 Place de la Légion d'Honneur, Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, 93200, FR ¹.)