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Ermengarde of Hesbaye, Queen of the Franks

778-818
Born: Hesbaye, Liège, Belgium
Died: Anjou, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France

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    <span dir="auto">Ermengarde of Hesbaye</span> <div>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> <div>Jump to: navigation, search</div> <tbody> <tr> <td class="mbox-image"> <div style="width: 52px;"><a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" alt="Question book-new.svg" width="50" height="39"></a></div> </td> <td class="mbox-text"><span class="mbox-text-span">This article <strong>does not <a title="Wikipedia:Citing sources" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources">cite</a> any <a title="Wikipedia:Verifiability" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability">references or sources</a></strong>. <span class="hide-when-compact">Please help <a class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ermengarde_of_Hesbaye&amp;action=edit">improve this article</a> by <a title="Help:Introduction to referencing/1" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing/1">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a title="Wikipedia:Verifiability" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence">removed</a>.</span> <small><em>(October 2007)</em></small> </span></td> </tr> </tbody> <p><strong>Ermengarde of Hesbaye</strong> (or <strong>Irmengarde</strong>) (c. 778 &ndash; 3 October 818) was Queen of the Franks and Holy Roman Empress as the wife of Emperor Louis I. She was Frankish, the daughter of Ingeram, count of Hesbaye, and Hedwig of Bavaria.</p> <p>In 794/5 Ermengarde married Louis the Pious, king of Aquitania, king of Franks, king of Italy, ruler of the Holy Roman Empire.</p> <p>She had six children:</p> <ul> <li>Lothair I, born 795 in Altdorf, Bavaria</li> <li>Pepin I of Aquitaine, born 797</li> <li>Adelaide, born ca. 799</li> <li>Rotrude, born 800</li> <li>Hildegard / Matilda, born ca. 802 <ul> <li>Wife of Gerard, Count of Auvergne, possible mother of Ranulf I of Poitiers.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Louis the German, born ca. 805</li> </ul> <p>She died at Angers, France on 3 October 818. A few years after her death, her husband remarried to Judith of Bavaria, who bore him Charles the Bald.</p> <tbody> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <td rowspan="1" align="center" width="30%">Preceded&nbsp;by<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">None</span></td> <td style="text-align: center;" rowspan="1" width="40%"><strong><a class="mw-redirect" title="Empress of the Holy Roman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_of_the_Holy_Roman_Empire">Empress of the Holy Roman Empire</a></strong><br> 814&ndash;818</td> <td rowspan="2" align="center" width="30%">Succeeded&nbsp;by<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a class="mw-redirect" title="Judith, daughter of Welf" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith,_daughter_of_Welf">Judith of Bavaria</a></span></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <td rowspan="1" align="center" width="30%">Preceded&nbsp;by<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a title="Luitgard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luitgard">Luitgard</a></span></td> <td style="text-align: center;" rowspan="1" width="40%"><strong><a class="mw-redirect" title="List of Frankish Kings" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frankish_Kings">Queen of the Franks</a></strong><br> 814&ndash;818</td> </tr> </tbody>

 
 
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