Matilda of Saxony

Matilda of Saxony ( – 25 May 1008) was a Saxon aristocrat who became countess of Flanders by marriage to Baldwin III, Count of Flanders.

Life Matilda was the daughter of Hermann Billung. She first married Baldwin III, count of Flanders. They had:

Arnulf II, Count of Flanders

After Baldwin's death, Matilda married Godfrey I, Count of Verdun. They had:

Frederick (d. 1022), count of Verdun Godfrey (d. 1023), duke of Lower Lorraine (1012–1023) Adalberon (d. 988), bishop of Verdun (984–988) Herman of Ename (d. 1024), count of Brabant (retired as a monk in the abbey of Verdun abt. 1022) Gothelo (d. 1044), margrave of Antwerp, duke of Lower (1023–1044) and later also Upper (1033–1044) Lorraine Ermengarde (d. 1042), married Otto of Hammerstein, count in the Wettergau Ermentrude, married Arnold de Rumigny (d. 1010), lord of Florennes Adela, married Count Godizo of Aspelt. Their daughter Irmgard married Berthold von Walbeck, son of Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark.

Matilda died on 25 May 1008 and was buried in Ghent.