Hildegard, wife of Charlemagne

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Hildegard (758-30 April 783) was the daughter of Count Gerold of Vinzgouw and Emma of Alamannia, daughter of Hnabi, Duke of Alamannia.

[edit] Marriage and issue

Hildegard was the second wife of Charlemagne[1], who married her about 771. They had the following children:

  • Charles, (772 or 773-811), Count of Maine from 781, joint King of the Franks with Charlemagne from 800
  • Adelaide (773-773 or 774-774)
  • Pippin (773 or 777-810), born Carloman and later renamed at baptism, king of Italy from 781
  • Rotrude (or Hruodrud) (777-810)
  • Louis the Pious, king of Aquitaine from 781, emperor from 813 (sole Emperor from 814) until 840
  • Lothair, twin brother of Louis, died young in 780
  • Bertha (779-823?)
  • Gisela (781-808?)
  • Hildegarde (782-783?)
Preceded by
Desiderata and Gerberge		 Queen of the Franks
c. 771–774		 Succeeded by
Fastrada

[edit] References

  1. ^ As described by historians such as Pierre Riché (The Carolingians, p.86.), Lewis Thorpe (Two Lives of Charlemagne, p.216) and others. Other historians list Himiltrude, described by Einhard as a concubine, as Charlemagne's first wife, and reorder his subsequent wives; accordingly Hildegard is sometimes numbered as his third wife. See Dieter Hägemann (Karl der Große. Herrscher des Abendlands, Ullstein 2003, p. 82f.), Collins (Charlemagne, p. 40.).

[edit] Sources

  • The Royal Ancestry Bible Royal Ancestors of 300 Colonial American Families by Michel L. Call (chart 2002) ISBN 1-933194-22-7