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Medieval Women Saints - Germanic
Women of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages who were canonized - and Hildegard of Bingen, never canonized, but celebrated as a saint. Also includes such women as Saint Adelaide, Saint Ludmilla, Saint Matilda of Saxony.
Elizabeth of Hungary
Profile of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, patron saint of charities, widows, and bakers.
Adelaide
Biography and links for the Empress Adelaide, consort of Otto I and influence or regent for her son and grandson.
Brunhilde
A Visigoth princess, she married a Frankish king, then revenged her murdered sister by starting a 40-year war with a rival kingdom. She fought for her son, grandsons and great-grandson, but was finally defeated and the kingdom lost to the rival family.
Edith of England (Eadgyth)
Daughter of King Edward the Elder of England, she was married off to the Emperor Otto I as his first wife.
Fredegund
She worked her way up from servant to mistress to queen consort, and then ruled as her son's regent. She talked her husband into murdering his second wife, but that wife's sister, Brunhilde, queen of the neighboring kingdom, wanted revenge -- and so followed forty years of war. Fredegund is chiefly remembered for her assassinations and other cruelties.
Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim
First known woman dramatist, Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim also wrote poems and chronicles.
Hrotsvitha
Biography of medieval religious writer Hrosvitha, a German nun, from a 1911 encyclopedia.
Theophano
Daughter of Theophano, Byzantine Empress, she married the western Emperor Otto II and served, with her mother-in-law Adelaide, as regent for her son, Otto III.
Saint Matilda
A profile of Saint Matilda of Saxony, a tenth century German saint.