Hedwig of Saxony

   Another name for Hedwig was Judith von Saxony.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition 53:19, 141:9 ¹⁶⁰

~The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273, "Pedigree of the Captian Kings of France," pp. 94, 95, wife of Hugh "the Great" ⁹⁵⁹

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Hedwig.
Hugues le Grand Duc des Francs married Hedwig of Germany, daughter of Heinrich I King of Germany and his second wife Mathilde. Rodulfus Glaber names "sororem [primis Ottonis] Haduidem" as wife of "Hugo dux Francorum cognomento Magnus" [France, J., Bulst, N. and Reynolds, P. (eds. and trans.) (1989) Rodulfi Glabri Historiarum Libri Quinque, Rodulfus Glaber Opera (Oxford) I.8, p. 19.]. "Henricus…rex" granted property to Paderborn cathedral by charter dated 9 May 935 which names "Heinrici æquivoci ac filii nostri et Hadeuui filiæ nostræ" by charter dated 9 May 935. "Hugues abbé de Saint-Martin" donated "son alleu de Lachy…dans le comté de Meaux", inherited from "comte Aledramnus", to Tours Saint-Martin by charter dated 14 Sep 937 which names "sa femme Havis" [Mabille, E. (ed.) (1866) La pancarte notre de Saint-Martin de Tours brulée en 1793 (Paris, Tours) ("Tours Saint-Martin") LVIII, p. 95]. Flodoard refers to "sororem Othonis regis Transfhenensis, filiam Heinrici" as the wife of "Hugo princeps, filius Roberti", without naming her, recording their marriage in 938 [Flodoard 938, MGH SS III, p. 385]. Flodoard also refers to "relicta Hugonis" as "amita Lotharius rex" [ Flodoard 957, MGH SS III, p. 404].

Hedwig married Hugues "Magnus" Capet Comte de Paris, son of Robert I Roi des Francs and Béatrice de Vermandois, 937 or 938 in Mainz ^197,233.^,345 (Hugues "Magnus" Capet Comte de Paris was born between 895 and 900 in Paris, Île-de-France, France, died in Jun 956 in Dourdan, Isle De France ¹⁰²⁰ and was buried in Abbaye De St Denis, St Denis, Isle De France.)