Ermengarde of Tours

Who was Ermengarde of Tours?

Ermengarde of Tours was the daughter of Hugh of Tours, a member of the Etichonen family, which claimed descent from the Merovingian kings. In October 821 in Diedenhofen, she married the Carolingian Emperor Lothair I of the Franks.

In 849, two years before her death, she made a donation to the abbey Erstein in the Elsass, in which she is buried.

Lothair and Ermengarde had nine children:

Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor.

Helletrud m. Count Berengar

Bertha, became before 847 Abbess of Avenay, perhaps Äbtissin of Faremoutiers

A daughter of unknown name, called Ermengarde in later sources, kidnapped 846 by Gilbert, Count of the Maasgau, who then married her

Gisla 851–860 Abbess of San Salvatore in Brescia

Lothair II of Lotharingia king of Lorraine m. 855 Teutberga, daughter of Count Boso of Arles

Rotrud m. around 850/851 Lambert, Margrave of Brittany, Count of Nantes, who died 1 May 852

Charles of Provence, King in Burgundy