Cunégonde of Luxembourg
Holy Cunégonde , born towards 975 and dead the March 3rd 1033 or 1039 with Kaufungen, is Germanic empress, wife of the emperor Henri II the Saint (or the Lame one), with whom it corègne (what the chronicles of the time announce).
It is the girl of the count Siegfried (or Sigefroi) Ier of Luxembourg (922 - August 15th 998) and of Hedwige de Nordgau (towards 935 - 992).
Benefitting from the statute from Cunégonde, his/her brothers and other close relatives often their rights in High-Lorraine exceeded: usurpation of évêché with Metz, monopolization of grounds and even captures of the duke Thierry. Henri II put not easily fine at these abuses.
One year after the death of her husband it was withdrawn in 1025 in the monastery of the bénédictines which it had founded with Kaufungen in Germany (Hesse). She died in 1033 (or 1039), and was buried in the cathedral of Bamberg at the side of Henri II.
Its crown, realized with Metz about 1020, is preserved at the Residence of Munich.
According to a late legend, undoubtedly inspired by the problems of sterility of the couple, it would not have never consumed its marriage and would have been subjected successfully to the Jugement of God consisting in going the barefeet on twelve heated plow shears to white. It was canonized the March 29th 1200 by the pope Innocent III.
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