Heilwig VON SACHSEN [7655] ¹⁸¹¹

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  General Notes:

Hedwig (c.?778-after 833) was a Saxon noble woman, the wife of Count Welf (father of Judith) and mother-in-law of Emperor Louis the Pious through his marriage to Judith, her daughter.

She was possibly born at Altdorf in the Frankish lands of Alamannia (present-day Germany). According to Bishop Thegan of Trier, she was a member of the Saxon high nobility, the daughter of Count Isambart. She had a sister, Adalung des Franken, half-brother Hunfrid I de Recia, de Istria, and a brother Guelph, Count of Andech. In her later life (about 826) she appears as abbess of Chelles near Paris, however, it is uncertain if she had already become a widow by then.

Hedwig married Count Welf I. Children:
1 Judith, Roman Empress and Frankish Queen, died 843;
2 Rudolph, died 866;
3 Conrad, Count of Paris, ancestor of the Welf kings of Burgundy;
4 Hemma, Frankish Queen, married to Louis the German, son of Louis the Pious, died 876;
5 Mathilda d'Andech von Altdorf.

Through her marriage to Welf she is the matriarch of the Dynastic Welf Family and is an ancestor of the Carolingian dynasty, the Kings of Italy, Russia, Britain, the Hagenéter rulers of Piedmont and the Bavarian Welfs.

Hedwig died on 19 April 843 in Bayern, Frankish Empire and was buried in Bayern Lande.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_of_Bavaria

  Noted events in her life were:

1. She was Äbtissin der Abtei von Chelles; Abbesse de l'Abbaye de Chelles; Abbess of the Abbey of Chelles in 826 in Paris. ¹⁸¹⁵

2. She worked as an Abbesse de Chelles. On an unknown date. ¹⁸¹⁵

Heilwig married Welf I. Graf in Bayern und Schwaben [7654] [MRIN: 5709], son of Graf Ruthard der Jüngere IM ARGENGAU [7656] and Ermentrude Irmgard DER KAROLINGER von Schwaben [7657], about 797.¹⁸¹⁴ (Welf I. Graf in Bayern und Schwaben [7654] was born about 776 in Altdorf, Weingarten, Schwaben, Fränkisches Reich,¹⁸¹¹ died about 825 in Altdorf, Weingarten, Schwaben, Fränkisches Reich ¹⁸¹¹ and was buried about 825 in Basilika St. Martin, Weingarten, Landkreis Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland ¹⁸¹¹.)