Otto (Ordulf) Duke OF BRUNSWICK BILLUNG

Abt 1020 - 1072  (52 years)

• Name	Otto (Ordulf) Duke OF BRUNSWICK BILLUNG
  Born	Abt 1020	Sachsen, Tyskland
  Gender	Male
  Temple	Duke of Saxony
  Name	Ordulf
  Died	28 Mar 1072	Saxony, Germany
  Person ID	I84	Conrad Jenssen Family Tree
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Bernard II hertug af Sachsen BILLUNG,   b. Abt 995,   d. 29 Jun 1059  (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Eilika Margravine af SCHWEINFURT,   b. Abt 1005,   d. 1059  (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Family ID	F18	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ulfhild Olavsdtr av NORGE,   b. Abt 1020,   d. 24 Apr 1070  (Age 50 years)
  Married	Nov 1042
  Children	1. Magnus Sachsen BILLUNG,   b. Bef 1045, Saxony, Germany ,   d. 23 Aug 1106  (Age > 61 years)  [Natural]
  Family ID	F14	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Ordulf, Duke of Saxony From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Note the legend: Orthilius dux Saxoniae. Enlarge Note the legend: Orthilius dux Saxoniae. Ordulf (sometimes Otto) (c. 1022–28 March 1072) was the duke of Saxony from 1059, when he succeeded his father Bernard II, until his death. He was a member of the Billung family. His entire reign was occupied by wars with the Wends. He was allied with Denmark, which alliance he strengthened by marrying (1042) Wulfhild (24 May 1071), the daughter of King Olaf I of Denmark. He had a second wife in Gertrude of Haldensleben, daughter of a Count Conrad, who was imprisoned in Mainz in 1076 and died 21 February 1116. By Wulfhild he had a son named Magnus who succeeded him. He had a son named Bernard by Gertrude who died of a fall from a horse at Lüneburg on 15 July in some unknown year. Ordulf himself is buried the church of Saint Michael at Lüneburg.