Ermengard DE HESBAYE
Characteristics
| Type | Value | Date | Place | Sources |
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| name | Ermengard DE HESBAYE |
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| Type | Date | Place | Sources |
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| death | 3. October 818 | Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, Kingdom of the Franks
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| birth | between 775 and 780 |
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| marriage | about 794 |
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Sources
| 1 | Foundation for Medieveal Geneology, Franks, Carolignian Kings: Chapter 1: Kings of the Franks 751-840
Author: Charles Cawley
Publication: Name: Medeival Lands; Location: Oak House, Vowchurch, Hereford, HR20RB, England; Date: 2001-2011;
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| This document sets out the family of the Frankish kings and emperorsknown to history as the Carolingians until the division of the empireunder the Treaty of Verdun in 843, and thereafter the Carolingianrulers of the kingdom of the West Franks (France) until theirextinction in the male line in 987. The kings of Lotharingia andkings of the East Frankish kingdom (Germany), both also formed underthe 843 treaty, are shown in the documents LOTHARINGIA, KINGS, andGERMANY, KINGS & EMPERORS respectively. The Carolingian kings ofItaly and kings of Aquitaine are set out in the two documents ITALY,EMPERORS & KINGS, and AQUITAINE DUKES. All these documents arehyperlinked from this document. The Carolingian monarchy was established in 751 when Pépin "le Bref",maior domus of Childeric III, last king of the Merovingian dynasty(see the document FRANKS, MEROVINGIAN NOBILITY), deposed his nominallord and declared himself king with the support of the Papacy. Atthat time, the Frankish empire covered Francia (Austrasia andNeustria), Alemannia, Burgundy, Provence, Thuringia and thearchbishoprics of Metz and Trier. The territory of the empire wasconsiderably extended during the succeeding fifty years. King Pépinconquered Aquitaine in 768. King Charles I subjugated the ItalianLombard kingdom in 773, Friulia in 776, Saxony in 777, and the marchof Spain in 778. Bavaria and Carinthia were incorporated into theFrankish kingdom in 787, with full control over Alemannia, Hessen andThuringia being confirmed by 797. The Frankish empire was formallyestablished when Charles was crowned emperor by the Pope in Rome in800. The inherent weakness of the Carolingian Frankish empire was thecontinual process of territorial division designed to placate juniormembers of the dynasty, although presumably some sort of regionalsub-rule was inevitable given the empire's geographic extent andethnic diversity. The tradition of dividing the territory betweenfamily members started when King Pépin died in 768, when his youngerson Carloman was granted Burgundy, Provence, Gothia [Septimania],Alsace and Swabia, while the older son Charles ruled in Neustria,Aquitaine and the larger part of Austrasia, although the kingdom wasreunited after Carloman died in 771. Emperor Charles formalisedanother division in 806, under which his oldest son Charles ruledAustrasia, Neustria, northern Burgundy, northern Alemannia, Thuringia,Saxony, Frisia and the Bavarian Nordgau, his second son Pépin wasconfirmed as king of Italy and in addition received Bavaria, Carinthia(except Nordgau) and Alemannia south of the river Danube, while thethird son Louis became sovereign of Aquitaine, Gascony, Septimania,Provence and southern Burgundy. This territorial split was alsoshort-lived as the two older sons predeceased their father. Thenumerous territorial divisions promulgated by Emperor Louis I wereparticularly controversial, especially after his youngest son by hissecond marriage was brought into the picture in 829 when he wasinvested with Alemannia, Rhætia, Alsace and part of Burgundy at theage of six. The following ten years saw civil war between theemperor's four sons, only finally settled by the Treaty of Verdun in843 which brought about the final division of the empire into thethree separate kingdoms of the West Franks (France), the East Franks(Germany), and Lotharingia, an artificial creation between the othertwo kingdoms stretching from the North Sea coast in the north to Italyin the south. After the 843 partition, the imperial title was retained by the seniorLotharingian/Italian branch of the dynasty until the death of EmperorLouis II (see ITALY, EMPERORS & KINGS) without male heirs in 875.After this date, the title was borne by his youngest paternal uncle,Charles II "le Chauve" King of the West Franks. On his death twoyears later, it passed to the East Frankish branch (see GERMANY, KINGS& EMPERORS), with whom it remained until the extinction of the dynastyin the male line in 911. A striking feature of the genealogy of the Carolingian dynasty is theabsence of detailed information concerning the daughters of thefamily. The examples are numerous: Gisela, daughter of King Pépin, about whose possible marriage there issome speculation. the relationships of three of the daughters of Emperor Charlemagne(none of whom married their lovers, it would appear). the daughters of Emperor Louis I. the four younger daughters of Emperor Charles II "le Chauve" by hisfirst wife. two of the daughters of Louis III "le Bègue" King of the West Franks. The case of Frederuna, first wife of Charles III "le Simple" King ofthe West Franks, is also interesting as only sketchy information isknown about her origin (although presumably she was from a prominentfamily), and very little is known about her six daughters. Presumably some, if not all, of these Carolingian princessescontracted marriages with the nobility and left descendants, althoughfew hints concerning such descents are provided in the primary sourcesso far consulted. This absence of information is curious as theprestige of descent from the Carolingian dynasty was such that latersources frequently refer indirectly to such descents, but withoutgiving enough detail to reassure the researcher about the accuracy ofthe assertion. Two such dubious cases have been included in thisdocument, in square brackets to indicate doubt: firstly, thedescendants of Chunibert, supposed grandson of King Pépin, andsecondly the possible descent of the Udalrichinger counts in northernSwitzerland from an otherwise unknown sister of Charles II "le Chauve"King of the West Franks. It is also possible that descents in the male line exist from theillegitimate sons of the Carolingian emperors and kings. For example,Arnoul, illegitimate son of Emperor Louis I who installed him as Comtede Sens, may have married and had children about whom nothing isrevealed in the sources. The same is true of Arnoul and Drogo,illegitimate sons of Charles III "le Simple" King of the West Franks,about whom only their names and parentage are known from the primarysources. |
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