See also: List of rulers of Lorraine. The royal consorts of the rulers of the Lorraine region have held varying titles, over a region that has varied in scope since its creation as the kingdom of Lotharingia by the Treaty of Prüm, in 855. The first rulers of the newly established region were kings of the Franks. The Latin construction "Lotharingia" evolved over time into "Lorraine" in French, "Lotharingen" in Dutch and "Lothringen" in German. After the Carolingian kingdom was absorbed into its neighbouring realms in the late ninth century, dukes were appointed over the territory. In the mid-tenth century, the duchy was divided into Lower Lorraine and Upper Lorraine, the first evolving into the historical Low Countries, the second became known as the Duchy of Lorraine and existed well into the modern era.
See also: List of Frankish queens.
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Queen | Ceased to be Queen | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ermengarde of Tours | Hugh of Tours (Etichonids) | 804 | 15 October 821 | 11 August 843 Treaty of Verdun | 20 March 851 | Emperor Lothair I | ||
| Teutberga [1] | Boso the Elder (Bosonids) | – | 855 | 29 September 855 husband's accession | 8 August 869 husband's death | before 25 November 875 | Lothair II | |
| Ermentrude of Orléans [2] | Odo I, Count of Orléans (Udalrichings) | 27 September 823 | 13 December 842 | 8 August 869 husband's accession | 6 October 869 | Charles the Bald | ||
| Richilde of Provence | Bivin of Gorze (Bosonids) | 845 | 22 January 870 | 6 October 877 repudiated | 2 June 910 | |||
| Emma of Altdorf [3] | Welf (Elder Welf) | 808 | 827 | August 870 husband's accession | 31 January 876 | Louis the German | ||
| Adelaide of Paris | Adalard of Paris (Girardids) | 850/853 | February 875 | 6 October 877 husband's accession | 10 April 879 husband's death | 10 November 901 | Louis the Stammerer | |
| Liutgard of Saxony | Liudolf, Duke of Saxony (Liudolfings) | 845 | before 29 November 874 | 28 August 876 in the East February 880 Sole queen after Treaty of Ribemont | 20 January 882 husband's death | 17/30 November 885 | Louis the Younger | |
| Richardis of Swabia | Erchanger, Count of the Nordgau (Ahalolfings) | 840 | 1 August 862 | 20 January 882 husband's accession | 17 November 887 husband's desposition | 18 September, between 894 and 896 | Charles the Fat | |
| Ota of Neustria | Berengar I of Neustria (Conradines) | 874 | before the end of 888 | 8 December 899 husband's death | after 30 November 903 | Arnulf of Carinthia | ||
| Oda of Saxony | Otto I, Duke of Saxony (Liudolfings) | 884 | 27 March/13 June 897 | 13 August 900 husband's death | 2 July after 952 | Zwentibold | ||
| Frederuna | – | 884 | 1/18 April 907 | 1 November 911 husband's election | 10 February 917 | Charles the Simple | ||
| Eadgifu of England | Edward the Elder (Wessex) | 902/05 | 7 October 919 | 919/23 husband's desposition | after 955 | |||
| In 922, Lotharingia was subsumed into the Kingdom of Germany. | ||||||||
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Duchess | Ceased to be Duchess | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpaide | – | – | – | 959 duchy's division | 964 husband's death | – | Frederick | |
| The name of Richar's wife is not known (964–973) | Richar | |||||||
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Duchess | Ceased to be Duchess | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Robert of Vermandois (Carolingian) | 950s | 970s | May 977 husband's accession | 970s? | Charles | ||
| Adelaide | a low-ranking vassal of Hugh Capet | – | – | – | ||||
| Bonne of Verdun? | Godfrey I, Count of Verdun (Ardennes-Verdun) | – | – | – | 991 husband's resignation | |||
| The name of Otto's wife is not known, he may have had a daughter with her (991–1012) | Gothelo I | |||||||
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Duchess | Ceased to be Duchess | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gerberga of Boulogne | Eustace I, Count of Boulogne (Boulogne) | – | – | 1046 husband's accession | 1049 | Frederick | ||
| Ida of Saxony | Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (Billung) | – | align=center colspan="2" | 1055 | 18 May 1065 husband's death | 31 July 1102 | ||
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Duchess | Ceased to be Duchess | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beatrice of Bar | Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine (Ardennes-Bar) | 1017 | mid 1054 | 18 May 1065 husband's accession | 30 December 1069 husband's death | 18 April 1076 | Godfrey III | |
| Matilda of Tuscany | Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany (Canossa) | 1046 | May 1069 | 30 December 1069 husband's accession | 26/27 February 1076 husband's death | 24 July 1115 | Godfrey IV | |
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Duchess | Ceased to be Duchess | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ida of Chiny | Otto II, Count of Chiny (Chiny) | 1078 | 1099/1105 | 1106 husband's accession | 1117/25 | Godfrey VI | ||
| Clementia of Burgundy | William I, Count of Burgundy (Ivrea) | 1070/78 | align=center colspan="2" | 1120/25 | 1129 husband's abdication | 1129/33 | ||
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Duchess | Ceased to be Duchess | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luitgarde of Sulzbach | Berengar II of Sulzbach (Babenberg) | 1109 | 1139 | 16 July 1139 husband's ascession | 13 June 1142 husband's death | 1162/63 | Godfrey VII | |
| Margaret of Limburg | Henry II of Limburg (Limburg) | 1135 | 1155/58 | 1172 | Godfrey VIII | |||
| Imagina of Loon | Louis I, Count of Loon (Loon) | – | 1180 | 21 August 1190 husband's death | 5 June 1214 | |||
| Lower Lotharingia ceased to exist and had lost its territorial authority at the Diet of Schwäbisch Hall. Later duchesses were called the Duchess of Lothier, who were also the Duchess of Brabant and Limburg. | ||||||||
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Duchess | Ceased to be Duchess | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beatrice of Paris | Hugh the Great (Robertians) | 938–940 | 10 September/12 November 954 | 959 duchy divided | 18 May 978 husband's death | 23 September 1003 | Frederick I | |
| Richilde of Metz | Folmar III, Count of Bliesgau and Metz (Metz) | – | 985/992 | between 11 April 1026 and 12 January 1027 husband's death | – | Theodoric I | ||
| Matilda of Swabia | Herman II, Duke of Swabia (Conradines) | 988/995 | 1012–1016 | 1019 husband's accession | 17/18 May 1026 husband's death | 20 July 1031/1032 | Frederick II | |
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Duchess | Ceased to be Duchess | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The name of Gothelo's wife is not known, the name Barbe de Lebarten (and in fact her entire ancestry), being a spurious concoction of later genealogists (1033 – 19 April 1044) | Gothelo I | |||||||
| Doda | – | – | – | 19 April 1044 husband's accession | 1047 husband's desposition by the Emperor | 1053 | Godfrey | |
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Duchess | Ceased to be Duchess | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No indication has been found of the name of Duke Adalbert's wife. In 1960, Szabolcs de Vajay hypothesized that Adalbert was count of Longwy and father-in-law of William VII, Duke of Aquitaine and William I, Count of Burgundy, and that his wife was the said Clémence of Foix, daughter of the Count of Foix. (Annales de Bourgogne, Vol 32 (1960) 258–261), and has been followed in this by Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, Line 144-22. However, de Vajay subsequently published an unqualified retraction of his hypothesis in "Parlons encore d'Etiennette" in Onomastioque et Parente dans l'Occident medieval (Prosopographica et Genealogica, no.3), K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and C. Settipani, eds. (2000), pp. 2–6. | Adalbert | |||||||
| Hedwig of Namur | Albert I, Count of Namur (Namur) | 1005/10 | – | 1048 husband's accession | 6 March 1070 husband's death | 28 January 1080 | Gerard | |
| Hedwig of Formbach | Frederick, Count of Formbach (Formbach) | – | 1075/1080 | 1090/93 | Theodoric II | |||
| Gertrude of Flanders | Robert I, Count of Flanders (Flanders) | 1080 | 15 August 1095 | 23 January 1115 husband's death | 1117 | |||
| Adelaide of Leuven | Henry III, Count of Leuven (Leuven) | before 1095 | 1112/13 | 23 January 1115 husband's accession | 13 April 1138 husband's death | 4 November, after 1158 | Simon I | |
| Bertha of Lorraine | Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (Hohenstaufen) | 1123 | 25 March 1139 | 13 May 1176 husband's death | 18 October 1194 or 25 March 1195 | Matthias I | ||
| Agnes of Veldenz | Gerlach I, Count of Veldenz (Veldenz) | – | – | 13 May 1176 husband's accession | – | Simon II | ||
| Ida of Mâcon | Gerard I, Count of Mâcon and Vienne (Mâcon) | – | after 1190 | 1205 husband's abdication | 1227 | |||
| Wierzchoslawa Ludmilla of Greater Poland | Mieszko III the Old (Piast) | before 1153 | 1167 | 1205 husband's accession | 7 April 1206 husband's death | before 1211/1223 | Frederick I | |
| Agnes of Bar | Theobald I, Count of Bar (Scarponnois) | 1177 | before mid-July 1189 | 7 April 1206 husband's accession | 10 October 1213 husband's death | 19 June 1226 | Frederick II | |
| Gertrude of Dagsburg | Albert II, Count of Dasbourg and Metz (Dagsburg) | 1190 or May 1205 | 1206 or 1215 | 10 October 1213 husband's accession | 17 February 1220 husband's death | 30 March 1225 | Theobald I | |
| Catherine of Limburg | Waleran III, Duke of Limburg (Limburg) | 1215 | August 1225 | 24 June 1251 husband's death | 18 April 1255 | Matthias II | ||
| Margaret of Navarre | Theobald I of Navarre (Champagne) | 1240 | 10 July 1255 | 31 December 1302 husband's death | 3 October 1307 | Frederick III | ||
| Isabella de Rumigny | Hugh de Rumigny (Rumigny) | June 1263 | 23 May 1278 | 31 December 1302 husband's accession | 13 May 1312 husband's death | after 7 December 1325 | Theobald II | |
| Elisabeth of Austria | Albert I of Germany (Habsburg) | 1285 | 1304 or 6 August 1306 | 13 May 1312 husband's accession | 23 August 1328 husband's death | 19 May 1353 | Frederick IV | |
| Eleanor of Bar | Edward I, Count of Bar (Scarponnois) | – | 25 June 1329 | 15 September 1333 | Rudolph | |||
| Marie of Blois-Châtillon | Guy I, Count of Blois (Blois-Châtillon) | 1323 | 30 May 1334 | 26 August 1346 husband's death | 1363/1380 | |||
| Sophie of Württemberg | Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg (Württemberg) | 1343 | 16 December 1361 | 26 April or 26/27 July 1369 | John I | |||
| Margaret of the Palatinate | Rupert of Germany (Wittelsbach) | 1376/79 | 5 February 1394 | 25 January 1431 husband's death | 26/27 August 1434 | Charles II | ||
| Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Duchess | Ceased to be Duchess | Death | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joan, Countess of Tancarville | William, Count of Tancarville (Harcourt) | – | 9 September 1471 | 24 July 1473 husband's accession | 1485 marriage annulled | 8 November 1488 | René II | |
| Philippa of Guelders | Adolf, Duke of Guelders (Egmond) | 9 November 1464 | 1 September 1485 | 10 December 1508 husband's death | 26 February 1547 | |||
| Renée de Bourbon | Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (Bourbon-Montpensier) | 1494 | 26 June 1515 | 26 May 1539 | Antoine | |||
| Christina of Denmark | Christian II of Denmark (Oldenburg) | November 1521 | 10 July 1541 | 14 June 1544 husband's accession | 12 June 1545 husband's death | 10 December 1590 | Francis I | |
| Claude of France | Henry II of France (Valois) | 12 November 1547 | 19 January 1559 | 21 February 1575 | Charles III | |||
| Margerita Gonzaga | Vincent I of Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (Gonzaga) | 2 October 1591 | 24 April 1606 | 14 May 1608 husband's accession | 31 July 1624 husband's death | 7 February 1632 | Henry II | |
| Christina Katharina of Salm-Badenweiler | Paul, Count of Salm-Badenweiler (Salm) | May 1575 | 1597 | 25 November 1625 husband's accession | 1 December 1625 husband's abdication | 31 December 1627 | Francis II | |
| Nicolette of Lorraine | Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (Vaudemont) | 3 October 1608 | 23 May 1621 | 1 December 1625 husband's accession | 19 January 1634 husband's abdication | 2 February 1657 | Charles IV | |
| Claude of Lorraine | Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (Vaudemont) | 12 October 1612 | 17 February 1634 | 2 August 1648 | Nicholas II | |||
| Béatrix de Cusance | Claude François de Cusance, Count of Champlitte, Baron of Belvoir (Cusance) | 27 December 1614 | 9 April 1637 | 1661 husband's restoration | 5 June 1663 | Charles IV | ||
| Marie Louise d'Aspremont-Lynden | Charles II, comte d'Aspremont (Aspremont-Lynden) | 1651/52 | 1665 | 18 September 1675 husband's death | 23 October 1692 | |||
| Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans | Philippe of France (Orléans) | 13 September 1676 | 13 October 1698 | 27 March 1729 husband's death | 23 December 1744 | Leopold | ||
| Archduchess Maria Theresa | Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg) | 13 May 1717 | 12 February 1736 | 9 July 1737 Duchy given to Stanislas | 29 November 1780 | Francis III Stephen | ||
The House of Habsburg-Lorraine continued carrying the title as titular Dukes of Lorraine.