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Birth:           806 of Saxony
Death:          11 Mar  866 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liudolf,_Duke_of_Saxony
Liudolf (c.?805/820 – 11/12 March 866) was a Carolingian office bearer and count in 
the Duchy of Saxony from about 844. The ruling Liudolfing House, also known as the 
Ottonian dynasty, is named after him; he is its oldest verified member.

Life[edit]

He was the son of one margrave (German: Markgraf) Brun or Brunhart[1] and his wife, 
Gisla von Verla.[2][clarification needed] Liudolf had extended possessions in the 
western Harz foothills and on the Leine river, he also served as a military leader (dux) 
in the wars of the East Frankish king Louis the German against Norman invasions, the 
Polabian Slavs, and Great Moravia. Later authors called Liudolf a Duke of the Eastern 
Saxons (dux Orientalis Saxonum, probably since 850) and Count of Eastphalia.

About 830 Liudolf married Oda, daughter of a Frankish princeps named Billung and his 
wife Aeda. By marrying a Frankish nobleman's daughter, Liudolf followed suggestions 
set forth by Charlemagne about ensuring the integrity of the Carolingian Empire in the 
aftermath of the Saxon Wars through marriage. Oda died on 17 May 913, supposedly 
at the age of 107.[3] They had at least seven children:[4]
Bruno (c.?830/840 – 880), succeeded his father as a Saxon leader, supposed 
progenitor of the Brunonids
Oda of Saxony (c. 845-874), married to Lothar I, Count of Stade
Otto the Illustrious (c.?851 – 912), succeeded his brother in 880, father of King Henry 
the Fowler
Liutgard (c.?840 – 885), married the East Frankish ruler Louis the Younger, second son 
of King Louis the German, in 874.[5]
Hathumoda (c.?840 – 874), first Abbess of Brunshausen from 852
Gerberga (d. 896/97), Abbess of Brunshausen from 874
Christina (d. 919/20), Abbess of Gandersheim from 896/97.[5]

In 845/846, Liudolf and his wife went on a pilgrimage to Rome, and upon approval by 
Pope Sergius II they founded a house of holy canonesses dedicated to Pope Saints 
Anastasius and Innocent around 852. The monastery, duly established at their 
proprietary church in Brunshausen,[6] was consecrated by the Hildesheim bishop 
Altfrid and Liudolf's minor daughter Hathumoda became its first abbess. The convent 
was relocated in 881 to form Gandersheim Abbey, elevated to an Imperial monastery 
by Liudolf's grandson Henry the Fowler in 919.

While King Louis the German was preoccupied with Imperial politics, Liudolf, relying 
on the rank as well as the allodial lands he had inherited from his ancestors, rose to a 
leading position among the Saxon nobles – made evident by the marriage of his 
daughter Liutgard with King Louis the Younger. He is buried in his proprietary 
monastery of Brunshausen. His successions by his sons Bruno and Otto met with no 
resistance.

Parents
____ Bruno (ABT  786 - BEF  844)
____ Oda ()

Siblings
____ Liudolf ( 806 - 11 Mar  866)

Marriage To BILLUNG Oda (ABT  810 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
OF SAXONY Billung (ABT  780 - )
____ Aeda (ABT  784 - )

Children by BILLUNG Oda ABT  810 - 
OF SAXONY Liutgard (ABT  845 - 17 Nov  885)
OF SAXONY Oda (ABT  850 - AFT  874)
____ Otto "the Illustrious" "the Grand" (ABT  851 - 30 Nov  912)

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