Matilda of Frisia
Matilda of Friesland (* around 1024, † 1044 ) was a Queen of France in the 11th century.
Mathilde was an East Frankish nobles of high birth. Probably her parents were the Marquis Liudolf of Friesland and his wife Gertrude of Egisheim from the family of the Brunonen. This filiation is not excessively source to prove it is, however, occur more than once from the name Mathilde as neptem of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III. developed, which would in turn have been a half-brother of Liudolf and thus her uncle. They, too, would thus have been a maternal niece of Bishop Bruno of Toul, 1049 as Leo IX. was elected Pope.
Her marriage to the West Frankish- French King Henry I. was agreed at a meeting with this in Lorraine Ivois in 1034 by Emperor Conrad II, who was probably her grandfather by marriage. Shortly before his own daughter had died, also named Matilda, and was also engaged already with the West Frankish king. At the time of her marriage Mathilde was only ten years old, yet there is no doubt that the marriage has already taken place shortly after the ceremony. Around the year 1040 she gave birth to a daughter, but mother and daughter died in a short distance from each other in the year 1044. Mathilde was buried in the Abbey of Saint -Denis, but her tomb has not survived.
After her death, Henry I married his second wife, Anne of Kiev.