Liudolf of Saxony Count of Saxony [5148] ²⁴

  General Notes:

See Europäisch Stammtafeln Band I tafel 3.

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Liudolf (died 12 March 864 or 866) was a Saxon count ; later authors called him duke of the Eastern Saxons. He was also named as count of Eastphalia . Liudolf had possessions in eastern Saxony, and was involved in wars against Normans and Slavs . The Liudolfing House, also known as the Ottonian House, is named after him; he is its oldest known member.
Liudolf married Oda, daughter of a Frankish prince 913 , supposedly at the age of 107. By marrying a Frankish nobleman's daughter, Liudolf followed suggestions set forth by Charlemagne about ensuring the integrity of the Frankish Kingdom through marriage.
In 845/846, Liudolf and his wife traveled to Rome in order to ask Pope Sergius II for permission to found a house of secular canonesses, duly established in Brunshausen around 852, and moved in 881 to form Gandersheim Abbey . Liudolf's daughter Hathumod became its first abbess

Liudolf is buried in Brunshausen; his sons Brun
and Otto
apparently inherited his property.

Liudolf married Oda of Billung [5152] [MRIN: 1600], daughter of Billung I Graf [5159] and Aeda of the Franks [59731], about 836. (Oda of Billung [5152] was born in 806 and died on 17 May 913.)