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Female Countess Richenza of Perch (Maud) Click to view Countess Richenza of Perch in the family tree

Richenza was born in 1172 in Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany.1   Richenza's father was Duke Heinrich (The Lion) of Saxony and Bavaria V and her mother was Princess Matilda of England.  Her paternal grandparents were Duke Heinrich (The Proud) of Bavaria and Saxony and Duchess Gertrude of Austria; her maternal grandparents were King of England Henry (Curtmantel) Plantagenet II and Princess Eleanore of Acquitane. She had four brothers and two sisters, named The Long, Otto, Lothar, Wilhelm, Mathilde and Eleanore.  She was the oldest of the seven children.

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I33927

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