Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Mathilde (* top 955; † February 7/8 999 ) was from 966 until her death in the first abbess on the pin hill in Quedlinburg. She is venerated as Blessed, especially in the Diocese of Magdeburg.

Mathilde was a daughter of Emperor Otto I and granddaughter of St. Mathilde. Her mother was Adelaide of Burgundy, daughter of the Burgundian king Rudolf II as eleven, she was ordained 966 of all archbishops and bishops of the kingdom to the Abbess of Quedlinburg. Pope John XIII. confirmed the consecration in April 967

During her tenure Quedlinburg was promoting her imperial brother Otto II and her nephew Otto III. a center of Ottonenreiches. In the year 994 she received from King (later Emperor ) Otto III. the privilege of the coin, market and customs law for the market town of Quedlinburg. Mathilde was one of the most powerful women of the empire and led from 997 until her death the regency for her staying in Italy nephew Otto III.

Widukind of Corvey your dedicated his history of Saxony.

After her death, she was buried in the collegiate church of Quedlinburg.