Immedinger

The Immedinger were a Saxon noble family at the time of Liudolfinger to their ancestors - though not in the male line - the Saxon duke Widukind belonged.

History

The Immedinger had extensive properties in Ostfalen and were the heirs of Widukind's family in Westphalia; both families are counted among the enemies of Charlemagne. The house of the monastery was Immedinger Ringelsheim at the heart in the central portion of the family property.

The historian Gerd Althoff believes it is possible that the distinction of Immedinger of the Widukinden " genealogical fiction " and the Holy Mathilde could be expected to be the direct descendant of Widukind.

The known members of the family

• Mathilde, the abbess of the convent of Herford, and her granddaughter, who
• Holy Mathilde (* probably 896, † 14 March 968 ), the daughter of Count Dietrich ( Theodoric ) and the Reginlind, married in 909 in Wallenhausen the later East Frankish King Henry I, lay abbess of Nivelles; she was buried in the collegiate church of Quedlinburg.
• Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn (1009-1036), son of Immed IV
• Emma by Lesum, My work sister and wife of the Saxon Earl Liutger, younger son of Hermann Billung of the family of Bill Unger

The Immedinger ( Widukinde ) by Böttger, 1865

The Immedinger after Ohainski, Schubert & String, 2004

The descendants of the Abbess Mathilde

The descendants of Count Immed III.

Without assignment

Wiltrud (or Wiltraut ) * to 915 wife of Duke Burchard III. and probably mother of Dietrich I, the ancestor of Wettin.