Hedwig of Saxony, detail from the Chronica sancti Pantaleonis, 12th century
Born
c. 910
Died
after 958
Spouse
Hugh the Great
Issue
Beatrice of France Hugh Capet Emma of Paris, Duchess of Normandy Otto, Duke of Burgundy Henry I, Duke of Burgundy
House
Ottonian dynasty (Liudolfings)
Father
Henry the Fowler
Mother
Matilda of Ringelheim
Hedwige of Saxony (also Hedwig, German: Hadwig von Sachsen; c. 910 – after 958-959), a member of the Ottonian dynasty, was Duchess consort of the Franks by her marriage to the Robertian duke Hugh the Great. Upon her husband's death in 956, she acted as a regent during the minority of their son Hugh Capet, the founder of the Elder House of Capet.
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father was Welf I (d. 825), Count of Altorf in Alamannia; her mother was Hedwig (Heilwig; c. 775 – after 833), a daughter of the Saxon count Isambart. Emma's...
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