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Ermengarde of Tours | |
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Empress of the Carolingian Empire | |
Tenure | October 821 – 20 Mar 851 |
Queen consort of Italy | |
Tenure | October 821 – 20 Mar 851 |
Queen consort of Middle Francia | |
Tenure | August 843 – 20 Mar 851 |
Born | c. 810 |
Died | 20 March 851 (aged 40- 41) Erstein, France |
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 |
Ermengarde of Tours (c. 810 - 20 Mar 851) was daughter of Hugh of Tours[1] and Ava of Morvois.
In October 821 in Thionville, Ermengarde married the Carolingian Emperor Lothair I of the Franks (795–855).[1]
Ermengarde used her bridal gift to found the abbey Erstein in the Elsass,[2] in which she is buried. Ermengarde died in 851.[3]
Lothair and Ermengarde had: