Ermengarde of Lower Lotharingia

Events

Date of Birth: 970 or 975.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Date of Death: after 1013.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Charles, duke of Lower Lotharingia.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:755), by Borgnet, and by Genicot (p. 45). Glocker (pp. 302-303) does not mention Ermengarde as being among Charles's children. Settipani (p. 339) states that Ermengarde was the daughter of Charles's son Otto.

Mother: uncertain.

Spouse: Albert I, count of Namur.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:755), by Borgnet, and by Genicot (p. 45, p. 274).

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 Cawley.)

Robert II, count of Namur.

Albert II, count of Namur, married Regilindis of Lower Lotharingia.

Hadwide married Gerard, duke of Upper Lotharingia.

Liutgarde.

Goda.

Ermengarde.

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).

Borgnet, J. “Albert I” in Biographie Nationale de Belgique Volume 1 (Bruxelles:1866).

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

Genicot, Léopold. Études sur les principautés lotharingiennes, (Louvain, 1975).

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).

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).