Ermengarde of Hesbaye
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| Father | Ingerman, Count of Hesbaye |
| Mother | Rotrude |
Ermengarde (or Irmingard) of Hesbaye (c. 778 – 3 October 818), probably a member of the
Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious
.
Life
Ermengarde was the daughter of Count
Ingerman of Hesbaye
and Rotrude.
About 794 Ermengarde married Louis the Pious,[1] son of Charlemagne, who since 781 ruled as a King of Aquitaine. He had already fathered two children, and Ermengarde may have been his concubine. Ermengarde gave birth to six children:
- Lothair I (795–855),[1] born in Altdorf, Bavaria
- Pepin I of Aquitaine (797–838)[1]
- Adelaide, born c. 799
- Rotrude, born about 800,Ranulf I of Poitiers.
- Hildegard/Matilda, born c. 802,[1] abbess of Notre-Dame in Laon
- Louis the German (c. 805 – 876),[1] King of East Francia
Charlemagne initially intended to divide his
king of the Franks upon his father's death on 28 January 814. The couple was anointed and crowned emperor and empress by Pope Stephen IV on 5 October 816 in Reims Cathedral.[2]
She died at Angers, Neustria (in present-day France) on 3 October 818.[3] A few years after her death, her husband remarried to Judith of Bavaria, who bore him Charles the Bald.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f McKitterick 2008, p. 93.
- ^ Nelson 1995, p. 111.
- ^ a b Wilson 1984, p. 2.
Sources
- McKitterick, Rosamond (2008). Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity. Cambridge University Press.
- Nelson, Janet L. (1995). "The Frankish Kingdoms 814-898: the West". In McKitterick, Rosamond (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. II. Cambridge University Press.
- Wilson, Katharina M., ed. (1984). Medieval Women Writers. Manchester University Press.
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