Matilda of Frisia

Matilda of Frisia
Queen consort of the Franks
Tenure 1034–1044
Died 1044 (aged 19–20)
Paris
Burial Basilica of St Denis
Spouse Henry I of France[1]
Issue Daughter (died in infancy)
House Brunonids
Father Liudolf, Margrave of Frisia?
Mother Gertrude of Egisheim?

Matilda of Frisia (died in 1044) was the first queen[2] of Henry I, King of the Franks.[3][4] Her date of birth is unknown.

She was the daughter of Liudolf, Margrave of Frisia,[5] and Gertrude of Egisheim.

Matilda and Henry were married in 1034 after the death of his fiancée Matilda of Franconia.

In 1044, Matilda of Frisia gave birth to a daughter via Caesarian section, but she died in 1044 and the infant both died four years later.[6] Matilda was buried in St Denis Abbey, but her tomb is not preserved.

Henry married Anne of Kiev after her death.[4]

Proposed ancestry

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brun I, Count of Brunswick
 
Gisela of Swabia
 
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gertrude of Egisheim
 
Liudolf, Margrave of Frisia
 
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
Matilda of Franconia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Henry I
King of the Franks
 
Matilda
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ Treffer, Gerd (1996). Die französischen Königinnen. Von Bertrada bis Marie Antoinette [The Queens of France. From Bertrada to Marie Antoinette] (in German). Regensburg: Pustet. ISBN 3-7917-1530-5.
  2. ↑ Woll, Carsten (2002). Die Königinnen des hochmittelalterlichen Frankreich, 987-1237/38 [The Queens of Highly-medieval France] (in German). Stuttgart: Steiner. ISBN 3-515-08113-5.
  3. ↑ Rodulfi Glabri, Historiarum, "Mathildem… de regno eius ex Germanie nobilioribus"
  4. 1 2 Bogomoletz, Wladimir V. (2005). "Anna of Kiev: An Enigmatic Capetian Queen of the Eleventh Century. A Reassessment of Biographical Sources". French History. 19 (3): 299–323. doi:10.1093/fh/cri032.
  5. ↑ Robert-Henri Bautier, Anne de Kiev, Reine de France, et la Politique Royale au XI E SIÈCLE: Étude Critique De La Documentation. Revue Des études Slaves 57, no. 4 (1985):544.
  6. ↑ Jim Bradbury, The Capetians: The History of a Dynasty, 108-109.
French royalty
Preceded by
Constance of Arles		 Queen consort of France
1034–1044		 Succeeded by
Anne of Kiev
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