Ordulf of Saxony or in German Orthilius von Sachsen (born v. 1020 - died the March 28th 1072) was noble Germanic, of the family of the Billung, which was duke of Saxony of 1059 with 1072.
Wire of Bernard II of Saxony and Elika de Schweinfurt, Ordulf was the brother of Ida and Gertrude of Saxony.
In November 1042, it married Wulfhilde of Norway (° v. 1025 - † 1070), the girl of the king Olaf Ier of Denmark, with which it had two anfants:
Become widowed, he married in second weddings in 1071 Gertrude von Haldensleben (v. 1042 - 1116).
Ordulf, which became duke in 1059, with died of his/her father, continued a long fight and stubborn person with Adalbert (v. 1000 - 1072), archbishop of Bremen, who was obliged to yield a third of his possessions to the son of Ordulf, the future Magnus I {{er}} in 1066.
Its whole reign was occupied by wars with the Wendes. It was combined with the Denmark, country of his wife.
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