Just a picky detail. Mathilda was not an empress but only a lowly queen.
Her son Otto I was the first member of the family to be crowned emperor.
Jo Ann>
>MATHILDA, empress (A.D. 968)
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>The father of the empress Mathilda was Dietrich, count of Ringelheim, a
>descendant of the famous Witikind, prince of the Saxons, who had
>maintained so long and stubborn a resistance against Charlemagne . . .
>She died on March 14th, 968, and was buried in the church of S.
>Servetus, at Quedlinburg.
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>Oriens.
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