Lothair i holy roman emperor the great
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Chaume would give Helletrude a second marriage to count Giselbert, who is usually considered to be husband of a different daughter of Lothair [Chaume (1925), 549 (table 11)].
Bertha, fl. Not only does Witbert speak of Lothair's generosity toward him, but more importantly, he states that Lothair was like a father to him ("qui mihi et pater extitit").
As Hlawitschka has shown, Rotrude can be identified with a high degree of probability with the Rotrude who was wife of a certain Lambert and mother of a count Witbert. 853.
["Lotharius imperator, defuncta ante biennium Ermengarda christianissima regina, duas sibi ancillas ex villa regia copulavit; ex quarum altera Doda vocabulo filium generat, quem Karlomannum vocari iubet; aliique filii eius similiter adulteriis inserviunt." Ann.
61, citing Sydow (1955), Sydow (1956) (neither seen by me)].
Lothair I
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King of Bavaria, 814-817.
King of Italy, 822-5, 829-840.
Emperor, 833-4, 840-855 (joint emperor from 817).
Having briefly deposed his father Louis the Pious in 833-4, Lothair succeeded as sole emperor on the death of Louis in 840.
et suscepit filiam praedicti augusti nomine Rotrudam, ..." Agnellus, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, c.
The treaty of Verdun between Lothair and his brothers Louis (Ludwig) and Charles in 943 gave Lothair the middle part of the empire, which included Italy, Provence, and the region later known as Lorraine. When in 829 Louis I., under the influence of his second wife, Judith, revised the Ordinatio imperii to grant part of the empire previously granted to Lothair to his son by Judith, Charles (later called the Bald), Lothair broke with the imperial government.
[I have not seen this work.]
Werner (1967) = Karl Ferdinand Werner, "Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen bis um das Jahr 1000 (1.-8. More about Giselbert can be found on the page of his conjectured son count Regnier I. Although the name of this daughter of Lothair I is not given in the sources, she has often been called Ermengarde in later sources [e.g., Anselme, 1: 43], a name whose source is unknown.
824) in 823. Bertin., s.a. Fuld. = Friedrich Kurze, ed., Annales Fuldenses (MGH SRG 7, Hannover, 1891).
Anselme = Père Anselme, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, 9 vols. / Qui Francis, Italis, Romanis praefuit ipsis, Omnia sed sprevit, pauper et hinc abiit.
856, 47; "Hlotharius ymperator genuit Hludovicum Hlotharium et Karolum ex Hirmingardi regina." Witgeri Genealogia Arnulfi Comitis, MGH SS 9: 303]. Bertin. = G. Waitz, ed., Annales Bertiniani (MGH SRG 6, Hannover, 1883).
Ann. 853, 43]
Commentary
Falsely attributed children:
Medieval:
Hugues.
A number of genealogical tables, starting in the eleventh century, give Lothair a son "Hugo filius regis in monasterium trusus." [MGH SS 2: 314; MGH SS 6: 32, 176].
855, 45; "Ludoicus imperator Italiae et Hlotharius, frater eius, rex Franciae, cum Karlo puero, germano suo, apud Urbam conveniunt." ibid.., s.a. The daughters are covered individually below.
Louis II, d. 795.
His epitaph states that he lived for sixty (twice thirty) years, and his birthdate is a calculation from that figure ["Epitaphium Hludharii Imperatoris: Continet hic tumulus memorandi Caesaris ossa / Hlotharii magni, principis atque pii.
855, 45 (see above)].