Editing Widukind (section)

===Medieval===
Since the 9th century, Widukind had been idolized as a mythical hero. Around 1100, a tomb for him was made in [[Enger]]; recent{{when|date=October 2018}} excavations have found that the contents of the tomb are indeed early medieval, but are the remains of a young woman. In 1971, archaeologists discovered three graves in a prominent place in front of the altar. The remains of three men who had died in the early 9th century, two of them about sixty-year-old warriors, the third a young man, were identified after a DNA analysis in 2002 as  half-brothers or maternal cousins and a nephew. The man buried in front of the altar is assumed to be Widukind.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bild-der-wissenschaft.de/bdw/bdwlive/heftarchiv/index2.php?object_id=10100192 |title=Results (summary) of genetical analysis of the skeletons |access-date=2016-03-08 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305054434/http://www.bild-der-wissenschaft.de/bdw/bdwlive/heftarchiv/index2.php?object_id=10100192 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  When in the 10th century Saxon kings (of the [[Ottonian]] dynasty) replaced the Frankish kings in [[East Francia]] (the later [[Holy Roman Empire]]), these kings proudly claimed descent from Widukind: [[Matilda of Ringelheim|Matilda]], the wife of [[Henry I the Fowler|King Henry I]], was apparently a great-great-great-granddaughter of Widukind. The [[House of Billung]], to which several Dukes of Saxony belonged, had Matilda's sister among its ancestors and thus also claimed descent from Widukind. The Italian family [[Del Carretto (disambiguation)|Del Carretto]] (and its supposed French branch, family [[Charette (disambiguation)|de Charette]]) also claimed to descend from the hero.