Hedwig de France

Also known as Avoise.

Events

Date of Birth: about 970 or 975.

Place of Birth: unknown.

This estimated date is given by Glocker (p. 308). Cawley gives about 969.

Date of Death: after 1013.

Place of Death: unknown.

This date is given by Glocker (p. 308).

Relationships

Father: Hugues Capet, king of France.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:70), by Lewis (p. 22), by Glocker (p. 308), by Bouchard (p. 122), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Adélaïde.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:70) and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Régnier IV, count of Hainaut, count of Mons.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:70; 2:772), by the Biographie Nationale de Belgique (18:880), by Lewis (p. 22), by Glocker (p. 308), by Bouchard (p. 122),and by Baldwin.

(supposed) Spouse: Hugues III, count of Dagsburg.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:70). Glocker (p. 308) gives it, with a question mark.

Children (by Régnier):

Reginar V, count of Hainaut, count of Mons, married Mathilde de Verdun.

Béatrix married (1) Ebles I, count of Roucy; married (2) Manasses de Ramerupt.

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).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Hugues Capet” in The Henry Project.

Biographie Nationale de Belgique Volume 18 (Bruxelles:1905).

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Cawley, Charles. “HEDWIGE [Avoie] de France” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

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).

Lewis, Andrew W. Royal Succession in Capetian France: Studies on Familial Order and the State, (Harvard University Press, 1981).