Mathilde of Tuscany
The countess Mathilde of Tuscany , known as of Canossa, is the girl of the Marquis Boniface III of Tuscany and Béatrice girl of Frederic II, duke of High-Lotharingie (Maison of the Ardennes).
Mathilde marries, in 1071, Godefroid III Uneven the († 1076), duke of Low-Lorraine, then, in 1089, Welf IV, duke of Bavaria.
It will support very firmly, during the Querelle of the Nominations, the party of the Pape (Guelfe S). In 1077, it is with the castle of Mathilde, Canossa, that the Germanic emperor Henri IV “humiliated” at the time of a meeting with the pope Gregoire VII.
Mathilde of Toscane dies in 1115. The body of the countess will be transferred and buried with Saint-Pierre of Rome in the middle of the 17th century.
Mathilde was also " Countess of Briey " and founder of the Abbey of Orval (Legend of trout which leaves the wave to bring back for him its wedding ring with Welf of Bavaria).
Its manager with Briey in Barrois was Albert de Briey whose most probably current Maison goes down from Briey.
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