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Sophia I

Abbess of Gandersheim · Lived 975 to 1039 · aged 64

Sophia I, a member of the royal Ottonian dynasty, was Abbess of Gandersheim from 1002, and from 1011 also Abbess of Essen. The daughter of Emperor Otto II and his consort Theophanu, she was an important kingmaker in medieval Germany.

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Lived 975 to 1039 · aged 64