Matilda of England was an English princess of the House of Plantagenet and by marriage Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria from 1168 until her husband's deposition in 1180.
Matilda depicted at her wedding in the Gospels of Henry the Lion
Coronation of Henry the Lion and Matilda, from the Gospels of Henry the Lion (c. 1188)
Head of a funerary statue of Matilda in Brunswick Cathedral
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
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Otto IV was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until his death in 1218.
Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony
…later as a guarantee of Henry the Lion's performance with the peace terms agreed at Fulda in July 1190. He died in adolescence while still a hostage. Otto (1175/1176 – 19 May 1218), Count of Poitiers and Earl of York, and later, as Otto IV, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor. Married firstly on 23…
Seal of Otto IV
Otto IV and Pope Innocent III shake hands
Statues of Otto IV & Maria of Brabant, old city hall, Braunschweig, c. 1455.