Bertha

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: uncertain.

Mother: Mathilde de Bourgogne.

This relationship is given by Glocker (p. 325), by Duparc (p. 63), and by Demotz (p. 587).

(possible) Spouse: Gerhard III von Egisheim.

This relationship is given by Legl (p. 49) and by Glocker (p. 325). Père Anselme (2:156) makes him Aymon, count of Geneva. Duparc (p.71 ff) doesn't accept that the evidence supports the identification of Gerhard III as Bertha's husband.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Legl.)

Géraud, count of Geneva, married Tetberga.

Cono, bishop of Maurienne.

Hildegard von Schlettstadt married Frederick I, duke of Swabia.

(probably) another son.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Cawley, Charles. “BERTHA” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Demotz, François. La Bourgogne, Dernier des Royaumes Carolingiens (Lausanne, 2008).

Duparc, Pierre. Le Comté de Genève: IX^e -XV^e.Siècle. (Mémoires et documents publiès par la Société d’histoire et d’archéologie de Genève, tome XXXIX, Deuxième edition revue, 1978).

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).