Richenza of Northeim

Richenza of Northeim (c. 1087-89; † June 10, 1141 ) from the family of Northeim Count was Duchess in Saxony (since 1106), Queen ( 1125 ) and Empress (since 1133).

Richenza was the daughter of Count Henry the fats of Northeim († 1101) and Gertrud Brunonin the Younger of Braunschweig.

She married in 1100, Lothar von Süpplingenburg, Duke of Saxony and later emperors. At the reign of her husband, she took an active part. This is reflected, among other things, on their activities during the Pope's schism of 1130 and its mediation of the settlement of the conflict with the Hohenstaufen Conrad III. and Frederick of Swabia. A major role participated Richenza also in the certificate awarding her husband.

Their daughter was born in 1115 Gertrude of Süpplingenburg married Duke Henry the Proud of Bavaria ( † 1139 ), making the bruno African and North buckets heritage passed to the Guelphs. In the fight against appointed by the king to the Duke of Saxony Ascanians Albert the Bear, she secured the claims of her grandson of Henry the Lion of Saxony.

She was buried beside her late husband in 1137 and her son Henry the Proud King in the Cathedral of Lutter. At the grave goods included a simple crafted and surviving grave crown.

Richenza honor was the former girls' school in her home town of Northeim up in the 1970s its name. The building is now part of the high school Corvinianum.