Ermengarde
de Provence
formerly Carolingian aka d'Arles
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of Louis (Carolingian) Italia
and Engelberge (Alsace) di Italia
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Boso (Bosonid) Provence
— married
0876 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Ermengarde (Provence) de Chalon, Ingelberge (Provence) de Provence and Louis (Provence) de Provence
Died
at about age 44
in Vienne, Provence
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Biography
Name
- Ermengard (also Ermengarda, Ermengarde, or Irmingard) [1]
- Ermengarde - Adelaide Carolingien de France[2]
- Ermendardis d'Italie, Queen of Provence. [1]
Birth
She was born 843 [1]Born in 843, in the reign of her grandfather Lothair I, the year that her grandfather and granduncles partioned the empire of their own father, she grew up relatively privileged [3]
She also appears born 852 (no source)
Parentage
She was the only surviving daughter of Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor. [1]. Her father,Louis II was the eldest son and co emperor of the Emperor.
855 Death of Her Grandfather
In 855, when she was 12,the decrepit Lothair her grandfather died at age 60, and her father became Holy Roman Emperor. [1]
876 Marriage to Boso
In 876 aged 33, she married Boso, a Frankish nobleman of the Bosonid family who was related to the Carolingian dynasty [4] and who rose to become King of Lower Burgundy and Provence in 879. [1]
878 Sheltered the Pope
In May 878, she and her husband sheltered Pope John VIII, who was taking refuge from the Saracens, in Arles. [1]
879 Coup d'etat and War
After her husband's coup d'état in October 879, she helped defend his cities from her Carolingian relatives. In 880, she successfully defended Vienne itself, the capital, from the combined forces of Charles the Fat and the co-ruling kings of France, Louis III and Carloman. In August 881, the newly crowned Emperor Charles the Fat pillaged and burned Vienne, forcing Ermengard and her children to take refuge in Autun with her brother-in-law Richard, Duke of Burgundy. Meanwhile, Boso fled into Provence. [1]
887 Death of Boso
On Boso's death in January 887, the Provençal barons elected Ermengard to act as his regent, with the support of Richard. In May, Ermengard travelled with her son Louis to the court of Charles the Fat, and received his recognition of the young Louis as king. Charles adopted Louis as his son and put both mother and son under his protection. In May 889, she travelled to Charles' successor, Arnulf, to make submission anew. [1]
896 Death
Ermengard died on 2 June 896 in Vienne, then part of the Frankish Empire, and was buried in the town's first Cathedral of Saint-Maurice. [5] Her husband had been buried in the same cathedral in 887.[8] [6]
She was buried in the Cathedral of Saint-Maurice. Vienne.
Issue
Through her marriage to Boso, it is thought that Ermengard had two daughters and a son. [7] These were:
- Ermengarde/Ermengard (c. 877-April 12, 935), married Manasses I the Old, Count of Chalons-sur-Seine (Chalon-sur-Saône?); her mother is reported to have been Ermengard [1] Other sources indicate this relationship is unproven.
- Engelberge/Ethelberga, married firstly Carloman II, secondly William the Pious;[8] her mother is reported to have been Ermengard [1]. Other sources suggest this relationship is unproven.
- Louis the Blind (before 884-Jun3 5, 928), was betrothed to, and had a relationship with but possibly never married Anna/Eudocia Mamikonian, the illigitimate daughter of Zoe Zaoutzaina by Constantine VII. [9] Later, he married Adelaide of Burgundy, the daughter of Rudolph I of Burgundy and his half-sister Guilla of Provence. [10]
Sources
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Wikipedia. Ermengard of Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengard_of_Italy. Accessed Jan 15, 2016.
- ↑ Source: #S004444 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/13078823/person/1021869362/facts
- ↑ Ermengardis d'Italie, Queen of Provence. Accessed 8 February 2015, and cited by Wikipedia, Ermengard of Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengard_of_Italy. Accessed Jan 15, 2016.
- ↑ Bouchard, Constance Brittain (Spring 1988). The Bosonids or Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age. French Historical Studies 15 (3 ed.). Society for French Historical Studies. pp. 407–431. His mother's father, Boso, provided a daughter, Tetburgis/Teutberga, Boso's aunt, to be wife of Lothair II. Cited by Wikipedia, Ermengard of Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengard_of_Italy. Accessed Jan 15, 2016.
- ↑ Ermengardis d'Italie, Queen of Provence Accessed 8 February 2015.Footnote at Wikipedia, Ermengard of Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengard_of_Italy. Accessed Jan 15, 2016.
- ↑ Vienne Cathedral Accessed 8 February 2015.Footnote at Wikipedia, Ermengard of Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengard_of_Italy. Accessed Jan 15, 2016.
- ↑ Cawley, Charles, Ermengardis on FMG site, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012. Citation at Wikipedia indicates better source is needed.
- ↑ Riché, Pierre. Les Carolingiens: Une famille qui fit l'Europe (in French). Hachette litterature. p. genealogical table XII (Bosonides). ISBN 978-2010097379. Cited by Wikipedia, Ermengard of Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengard_of_Italy. Accessed Jan 15, 2016.
- ↑ A letter attributed to Nicholas Mystikos by Christian Settipani mentions negotiations to betroth the second daughter to Louis the Blind. Whether negotiations were ever completed and whether the marriage ever occurred is not known. However Settipani and other genealogists consider Charles Constantine of Vienne to be the result of this marriage. Footnote at Wikipedia, Ermengard of Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengard_of_Italy. Accessed Jan 15, 2016.
- ↑ Although sometimes said to be the daughter Ermengard, Guilla of Provence was born before Ermengard's marriage to Boso; this makes it likely that she was Boso's daughter by his first wife. Footnote at Wikipedia, Ermengard of Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengard_of_Italy. Accessed Jan 15, 2016.
Wikipedia Sources
- Riché, Pierr. Les Carolingiens: Une famille qui fit l'Europe, genealogical table XII (Bosonides)
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Royal Genealogies, Or the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings and Princes by Rev. James Anderson pub. 1732 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=yrqeY839bMwC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP3
Found on page 370/394 (first number is what is shown on the scanned pages, the second is the Google PDF page.)
Table 140 CXL The kings and Caesars in Italy, who in the Tenth Century opposed the first German Emperors. See Table CXVI page 370/394
I. Irmengardis the wife of Boso Count of Provence.