Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Cawley gives an estimate of 805 - 810.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 865 or 866, possibly on 16 December.
Place of Death: Italy.
The dates are given by Baldwin. Fees gives a range of 864 - 866. Settipani (p. 256) gives 16 December 866 in Italy. Le Jan (2001, p. 194) gives 874.
Place of Burial: Cysoing, Abbey of St Calixtus.
The place is given by Fees and by Settipani (p. 256). Eberhard’s widow had his body moved here, where he was later venerated as a saint.
Relationships
Father: Hunroch, count of Ternois.
This relationship is given by Fees, by Settipani (p. 256), by Le Jan (1995, p. 443), and by Baldwin.
Mother: uncertain.
Baldwin discusses the conjectures.
Spouse: Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious, emperor. Married between 835 and 840.
This relationship is given by Fees, by Schmidinger, by Le Jan (1995, p. 443), by Settipani (p. 256), by Bouchard (p. 18), and by Baldwin.
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 Baldwin.)
Eberhard (born about 837, died before 20 June 840).
Engeltrude (probably born between 837 and 840, died after 2 April 870).
Hunroch (born before 20 June 840, probably died about 874 or 875), duke of Friuli, married Ava, daughter of Liutfrid.
Berengario I (born about 840 - 850, died 7 April 924), margrave of Friuli, king of Italy, emperor, married Bertilia, daughter of Suppone II, duke of Spoleto.
Adalard (died after 1 July 874).
Rudolf (died 5 January 892), abbot of Saint-Vaast and Saint-Bertin.
Heilwig (died after 894) married (1) Hucbald, count of Ostrevant; married (2) Roger I, count of Laon.
Gisela, nun in Brescia.
Judith.
References
Baldwin, Stewart. “Eberhard” in The Henry Project.
Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
Fees, Irmgard. “Eberardo, marchese del Friuli” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 42 (1993).
Grierson, Ph. “L’origîne des Comtes d’Amiens, Valois et Vexin” in Le Moyen Age 3rd sers., x (1939) pp. 81-125.
Le Jan, Régine. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe - Xe siècle): essai d’anthropologie sociale (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995).
Le Jan, Régine. Femmes, pouvoir et société dans le haut Moyen Age. (Picard, 2001).
Schmidinger, H. "Eberhard" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 3 (Stuttgart: 1986).
Settipani, Christian (with Patrick Van Kerrebrouck). La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987. Première Partie (Volume 1 of Nouvelle Histoire Généalogique de l’Auguste Maison de France, 1993).