Ermengarde de Tours

Ermengarde or Irmingarde of Turns (born in 804 in Alsace, deceased on March 20th, 851) is a sovereign the Middle Ages. Girl of the count Hugues III of Turns and High Alsace or Hugo (765 - 837), a descendant of the house of Etichon-Adalric of Alsace, father of Holy Odile, and Ava de Morvois.

October 15th 821, she marries with Diedenhoffen, today Thionville, the emperor Lothaire Ier, wire of Louis the Piles and grandson of Charlemagne. By her marriage with Lothaire Ier, the family of Etichon-Adalric of Alsace, was combined with the dynasty Carolingien.

Descent

It will have nine children:

  1. Louis II the Young person (825 - † 875), emperor of Occident of 855 with 875 and king de Provence of 863 with 875. Marry Engelberge of Alsace and has two children of which Ermengarde, which marries in March 876 Boson V of Provence (Bosonides)
  2. Hildrud or Helletrude (826 - † 866), wife of the count Bérenger
  3. Berthe (830 - † 877), abbess of Avenay-Valley-in Or in 847
  4. Ermengarde (830 - † 849), kidnapped in 846 by Giselbert born between (826 - 830), count de Maasgau who married it.
  5. Gisla (830 - † 864), abbess of San Salvador with Brescia between 852 and 864 - Died on April 28th 864
  6. Lothaire II of Lotharingie (835 - 869), married in 855 with Theutberge (repudiated into 860), Boson girl of Arles known as the Old man († a. 855). Remarie in 862 with Waldrade
  7. Rotrude (836 - † 882), born in Pavia, married in 850 -51 with Lambert II of Nantes, margrave de Bretagne, count de Nantes which dies on May 1st 852, then with Otton II of Lebarten
  8. Charles of Provence (84 - † 863), king de Lyon and of Burgundy transjurane. In January 863 returns to the monastery of Saint-Pierre-the-Nonnains of Lyon
  9. Carloman (born in 853), the last wire of Lothaire Ier considered as illegitimate

History

It was a noble and very pious woman who was raised by her mother, Ava, in the spirit of the Christian religion, in the middle of a world still semi-barbare.
It probably passed most of its youth to the monastery of Holy-Julie to Brixen, today the town of Bressanone in the autonomous Province of Bolzano in the north of Italy (known today under the name of Bressanone) where it completed her education. With died of Amalperge, she was elected to succeed to him the seat abbatial.
When in 817 Louis Débonnaire associated his oldest son Lothaire Ier with the empire, this last required of Ermengarde to grant its hand to him. The marriage took place today on October 15th 821 with Diedenhoffen Thionville. The ceremony proceeded in the presence of thirty-two prelates and lords, of which the bishop of Strasbourg Adaloche.
Thereafter Lothaire conceded with his wife the protectorate of the abbey of Brixen, which it will defend all her life. With died of worthy the Wala de Corbie, abbot of Corbie and tutor of Lothaire Ier on August 31st 836, it made make prayers for the rest of its heart in its own monastery of Brixen.
The first years of its marriage were rather happy. But soon the revolt of wire of Louis Débonnaire against their father burst, followed disgrace of her husband who had soaked in the conspiracy. She was also grained by the divorce and the guilty marriage of her son Lothaire II of Lotharingie with famous the Waldrade and the abduction of her daughter Ermengarde (846) by Gislebert de Maasgau, count of Hainaut.
In the middle of these tribulations and of these tests, it pushed its patience and its resignation until heroism. By its kindness and its softness, she managed to gain the heart of her husband and to soften her character, as testifies to them several diplomas which he made on the authorities of sound épouse.
Later in 836, one year before the death of his/her father Hugues III, Ermengarde receives this one in agreement with his/her paternal uncle Leuthard de ground Sundgau vast located in Alsace, including inter alia Échery with the Petit Rombach. It will make there build small a sanctuairequ' it will give in full plenitude to the Abbaye of Gorze with the approval of Lothaire Ier. The membership of its goods to the Abbaye of Gorze will be confirmed later by Lothaire II of Lotharingie his/her son in a diploma sent of Strasbourg on October 15th 859. In 849, the pious princess founded the abbey of Erstein, foundation that Lothaire Ier accepted in 817 of his/her father Louis the Piles by a diploma gone back to Remiremont and that it granted to his wife. The diploma of the foundation of the abbey of Erstein by Ermengarde signed by the emperor Lothaire Ier does not leave any doubt about the paternity of its creation. This handwritten bubble contresigned by the pope Leon IV is in the files of the town of Strasbourg. Ermengarde was withdrawn then in this monastery, forgetting the anguishes which it had tested, and there died the Good Friday, that is to say on March 20th 851 Its remainders mortals were buried in the abbey church. Rope Maur, archbishop of Mainz, composed the epitaph which was still seen before the Révolution encrusted in the stone, and which speaks in praise of its virtues and recalls, at the same time benefits in favor of this abbey. The annalist of Saint-Bertin, AD ab. 855 gives him the name of very Christian queen, Ermengarda christianissima Regina . With its death, it is the girl junior by Ermengarde which will be named abbess of the abbey of Erstein.

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