Bertha of Swabia

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 957 and 961.

Place of Death: unknown.

The range is given by Tremp. Cawley gives after 2 January 966.

Relationships

Father: Burchard II, duke of Swabia.

This relationship is given by Tremp, by Zotz, and by Bühler (pp. 213, 385, 704f.).

Mother: Reginlinde.

This relationship is given by Tremp and by Bühler (pp. 213, 385, 704f.).

Spouse: Rudolf II, king of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Tremp, by Zettler (p. 120), and by Bühler (pp. 213, 385, 704f.).

Spouse: Hugo, king of Italy.

This relationship is given by Zettler (p. 120) and by Demotz (p. 234).

Children (by Rudolf):

(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 Cawley.)

Conrad I “le Pacifique” (died 19 October 993), king of Burgundy, married (1) Adelane; married (2) Mathilde de France.

Burchard, archbishop of Lyon.

Adélaïde married (1) Lotario II, king of Italy; married (2) Otto I “the Great”, Holy Roman Emperor.

Rudolf.

References

Bühler, Heinz. “Der Herrschaft Heidenheim” in Adel, Klöster und Burgherren im Alten Herzogtum Schwaben: gesammelte Aufsätze (Weissenhorn: Konrad, 1996).

Bühler, Heinz. “Richinza von Spietzenberg und ihr Verwandtenkreis” in Adel, Klöster und Burgherren im Alten Herzogtum Schwaben: gesammelte Aufsätze (Weissenhorn: Konrad, 1996).

Bühler, Heinz. “Wie gelangten die Grafen von Tüblingen zum schwäbischen Pfalzgrafenamt?” in Adel, Klöster und Burgherren im Alten Herzogtum Schwaben: gesammelte Aufsätze (Weissenhorn: Konrad, 1996).

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

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

Tremp, Ernst. “Bertha” in Historisches Lexicon der Schweiz. (2007).

Schieffer, Rudolf. “Rudolfinger” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 22 (2005), S. 198-200 [Onlinefassung].

Zettler, Alfons. Geschichte des Herzogtums Schwaben (Kohlhammer: Stuttgart, 2003).

Zotz, Th. "Burchard I." in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 2 (Stuttgart: 1983).