Ermengarde of Tours
Ermengarde of Tours (c. 810 - 20 Mar 851) was daughter of Hugh of Tours and Ava of Morvois.
Ermengarde of Tours | |
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Empress of the Carolingian Empire | |
Tenure | October 821 – 20 Mar 851 |
Queen consort of Italy | |
Tenure | October 821 – 20 Mar 851 |
Queen consort of Middle Francia | |
Tenure | August 843 – 20 Mar 851 |
Born | c. 810 |
Died | 20 March 851 (aged 40- 41) Erstein, France |
Spouse | Lothair I |
Issue | Louis II of Italy Helletrud Bertha Ermengarde Gisla Lothair II Rotrud Charles of Provence |
House | Etichonids |
Father | Hugh of Tours |
Mother | Ava of Morvois |
In October 821 in Thionville, Ermengarde married the Carolingian Emperor Lothair I of the Franks (795–855).
Ermengarde used her bridal gift to found the abbey Erstein in the Elsass, in which she is buried. Ermengarde died in 851.
Lothair and Ermengarde had:
- Louis II of Italy
- Helletrud (Hiltrud) (c. 826–after 865/866) m. Count Berengar (d. before 865/866)
- Bertha (c. 830–after 7 May 852, probably 877), became before 847 Abbess of Avenay, perhaps Äbtissin of Faremoutiers
- A daughter of unknown name (b. probably 826/830), called Ermengarde in later sources, kidnapped 846 by Gilbert, Count of the Maasgau, who then married her
- Gisla (c. 830–860) 851–860 Abbess of San Salvatore in Brescia
- Lothair II
- Rotrud (baptized 835/840 in Pavia) m. around 850/851 Lambert, Margrave of Brittany, Count of Nantes (Widonen), who died 1 May 852
- Charles of Provence
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