de Italy, Queen of Burgundy Ermengarde

852 - 896  (44 years)

• Name	de Italy, Ermengarde  [1, 2]
  Title	Queen of Burgundy
  Birth	852	Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Appointments / Titles	Regent of Bavaria during minority of son Henry the Wrangler  [1]
  House	Liutpolding  [1]
  FSID	GMJ7-4VN  [1]
  Death	2 Jun 896	Vienne, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France   [1, 2]
  Burial	Aft 2 Jun 896  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I34299	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	of Bavaria, Ludwig II,   b. 13 Jun 825, Alsace, Lorraine, France d. 12 Aug 875, Ghedi, Brescia, Lombardia, Italy (Age 50 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	d'Alsazia, Engelberga,   b. 830   d. 2 Apr 900, San Salvatore, Brescia, Brescia, Lombardia, Italy (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	5 Oct 851  [1, 3]
  Family ID	F13502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	de Provence, Boson,   b. 841, Metz, Haute-Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 11 Jan 887, Vienne, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	876
  Children	1. de Provence, Guilla,   b. 873, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France d. 14 Feb 929, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France (Age 56 years)  [natural]   2. de Provence, Engelberge,   b. 860, Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d. 919, Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (Age 59 years)  [natural]   3. d'Aveugle, Louis III,   b. 880, France d. 5 Jun 928, France (Age 48 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F13499	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 852 - Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Death - 2 Jun 896 - Vienne, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ITALY,%20Kings%20to%20962.htm#Ermengardisdied896 Ermengarde is the second daughter of the Western Emperor Louis II the Younger and Engelberge. Ermengarde (852 / 855-896 in Vienna 1 ) is the second daughter of the Western Emperor Louis II the Younger and Engelberge . Summary 1 Biography 1.1 Boson's wife 1.2 Regent of the Kingdom of Provence 2 Offspring 3 Notes and references 4 See as well 4.1 Sources and bibliography 4.2 external links Biography Boson's wife In 876 , she married, Duke Boson V of Provence - with Ermengarde, a branch of the Carolingians was founded in the Bosonides - and gave him two daughters and a son, Louis , future emperor of the West . In May 878 , Pope John VIII, threatened by the Saracens and Italian nobles, took refuge in Arles with her and her husband, Duke Boson. After the coup d'état of Boson in October 879 , she participated in the defense of Provence against the attempts of the Carolingian kings to reconquer . At the end of 880 , she successfully defended the city of Vienne , in the Rhône valley , capital of the kingdom of Burgondia that her husband Boson had tried to restore, and besieged by the troops of the alliance of the Carolingian kings Charles III the Fat , Louis III of France and Carloman II of France . In August 881 , during the second siege of Vienna , the troops of Charles III the Fat , newly elected West Germanic Emperor , succeeded in taking the city which was pillaged and burned down. Richard the Justice , brother of Boson, then takes under his protection his sister-in-law and his niece and takes them to Autun , while her husband Boson takes refuge in Provence. His genealogy on the FMG website [ archive ] René Poupardin , The Kingdom of Provence under the Carolingians , p. 162-163. See also Sources and bibliography René Poupardin , The Kingdom of Provence under the Carolingians , Lafitte Reprints, 1974. External links Notices in general dictionaries or encyclopedias :Dizionario biografico degli italiani [ archive ]Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana [ archive ] (en) Charles Cawley, “ Italy, emperors & kings - Chapter 4. Kins of Italy 774-887 (Carolingians) ” [ archive ] , at fmg.ac/MedLands (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy) (consulted inapril 2020) , including the dedicated leaflet [ archive ]

  
  

• Sources

  [S789] WORLD: Family Search, Family Tree. https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/name [S788] WORLD: Wikipedia. https://www.wikipedia.org/ [S791] WORLD: Ancestry Family Trees. https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/42/