Dietrich (Theodoric), sometimes called
Dietrich of Ringelheim in later literature, was a medieval
Saxon count in the
German region of
Westphalia. According to contemporary chronicles, his
Immedinger family stemmed from the House of the Saxon duke
Widukind. Dietrich was probably born in the second half of the 9th century, a few decades after the Saxons were brought under the control of
Charlemagne's
Frankish empire. His date of death remains uncertain, but might have been after the 910s according to the
Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters. According to
genealogieonline, Dietrich died between 916 and 920. Dietrich apparently married twice, first to Gisela of Lotharingia with whom he had a son, Beuve II, the Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, and three daughters: Amalrada, Bia, and
Frederuna, who married
Charles the Simple King of
West Francia and
King of Lotharingia. Secondly he married Reinhild, who was of "royal
Danish and
Frisian blood". With her he had
Matilda, who married
Henry the Fowler, King of
East Francia. ==References==