Hildegard, wife of Charlemagne
- Hildegard, wife of Charlemagne
Hildegard (758-30 April 783) was the daughter of Count Gerold of Vinzgouw and Emma of Alamannia, daughter of Hnabi, Duke of Alamannia.
Marriage and issue
Hildegard was the second wife of Charlemagne [As described by historians such as Pierre Riché ("The Carolingians", p.86.), Lewis Thorpe ("Two Lives of Charlemagne", p.216) and others. Other historians list Himiltrude, described by Einhard as a concubine, as Charlemagne's first wife, and reorder his subsequent wives; accordingly Hildegard is sometimes numbered as his third wife. See Dieter Hägemann ("Karl der Große. Herrscher des Abendlands", Ullstein 2003, p. 82f.), Collins ("Charlemagne", p. 40.).] , who married her about 771. They had the following children:
* Charles, (772 or 773-811), Count of Maine from 781, joint King of the Franks with Charlemagne from 800
* Adelaide (773-773 or 774-774)
* Pippin (773 or 777-810), born Carloman and later renamed at baptism, king of Italy from 781
* Rotrude (or Hruodrud) (777-810)
* Louis the Pious, king of Aquitaine from 781, emperor from 813 (sole Emperor from 814) until 840
* Lothair, twin brother of Louis, died young in 780
* Bertha (779-823?)
* Gisela (781-808?)
* Hildegarde (782-783?)
References
ources
* "The Royal Ancestry Bible Royal Ancestors of 300 Colonial American Families" by Michel L. Call (chart 2002) ISBN 1-933194-22-7
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