Matilda DE LOUVAIN 
Matilda was born in 1004. Matilda's father was Count Lambert I "The Bearded" Of Lens OF BRABANT & LOUVAIN and her mother was Gerberge OF LOWER LORRAINE OF BRABANT. Her paternal grandparents were Count Regnier III OF HAINAULT Rainier and Countess Alix OF EGUISH Adele; her maternal grandparents were Duke/Duke Charles of Upper Lorraine OF LAON and Adelheid DE ARDENNE. She had two brothers and a sister, named Lambert I DE LOUVAIN, Henry I and Landrade.General Notes
Credited with the first unification of the country, convertedthe Danes to Christianity, and conquered Norway. After hisBaptism his fathers pagan tomb was transformed into a Christianplace of worship.
Introduced Christianity into Denmark, he had the famous Jellingrune stone erected in his parent memory. He was fatally woundedduring a rebellion by his son and successor, Sveng I.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0846 d.0916
- b.0868
- b.0850
- b.0920
- b.0950 in Louvain, Brabant d.1015 in Killed
- b.0904
- b.0929
- b.1004
- b.0921 d.0954
- b.0869 in Wessex, England d.17 Jul 0924 in Farndon on Dee, Cheshire, England
- b.0950 in Laon, Aisne, France d.0991
- b.0876 in Saxony, Germany d.02 Jul 0936 in Memleben, Saxe, Germany
- b.0913 in Saxony d.0984
- b.0895 in Memleben, Saxe, Germany d.0968 in Quedlinburg, Germany
- b.0970 in Lower Lorraine
- b.0881 d.0919
- b.0911 in Rhineland, Prussia d.0943
- b.0880
- b.0911 d.1005
- b.0885 d.0910 in Battle
- b.0910 d.0963
- b.0890
- b.0953 in Ardenne, France
- b.0885 d.0967
- b.0880 d.0973
- b.0929 d.1008
- b.0902 in Westerburg, Saxony, Germany
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She had a biological son named Lambert II Of Lens.
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Children
Count Lambert II Of Lens DE BOULOGNE
Lambert II Of Lens was born in 1020. He died at the age of 34 in 1054 in Battle Of Lille.
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