Ermengarde of Tours explained

Ermengarde of Tours
Succession:Empress of the Carolingian Empire
Reign:October 821 – 20 Mar 851
Birth Date:c. 810
Death Date:20 March 851 (aged 40- 41)
Death Place:Erstein, France
Consort:yes
Spouse:Lothair I
Issue:Louis II of Italy
Helletrud
Bertha
Ermengarde
Gisla
Lothair II
Rotrud
Charles of Provence
House:Etichonids
Father:Hugh of Tours
Mother:Ava
Succession1:Queen consort of Italy
Reign1:October 821 – 20 Mar 851
Succession2:Queen consort of Middle Francia
Reign2:August 843 – 20 Mar 851

Ermengarde of Tours (c. 810 - 20 Mar 851) was daughter of Hugh of Tours and Ava of Morvois.

In October 821 in Thionville, Ermengarde married the Carolingian Emperor Lothair I of the Franks (795–855).

Ermengarde used her bridal gift to found the abbey Erstein in the Elsass, in which she is buried. Ermengarde died in 851.

Lothair and Ermengarde had:

Appearance

The contemporary poet Sedulius Scottus wrote "Men despise the zither's harmonious music whenever they hear your angelic and golden voice... Your face shines like ivory and blushes like a rose, and excels the beauty of Venus and the nymphs. A dazzling crown of golden hair adorns you, and splendid topaz, as a glittering diadem... Your milk-white neck glistens with beauty, ahining with the lustre of lilies or ivory. Your soft white hands dispense myriad gifts, whence they sow on earth to reap in heaven.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. From Sedulius Scottus, Poem 20, in E. Doyle, Sedulius Scottus: On Christian Rulers and the Poems (Binghamton 1983)