Hildegarde

Events

Date of Birth: probably between 2 May 757 and 30 April 761.

The range is given by Baldwin. Most sources give 758.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 30 April 783.

Place of Death: Thionville, Moselle.

The date and place are given by Dümmler. The place is given as Metz by Baldwin.

Place of Burial: Metz, église abbatiale de Saint-Arnoul.

The place is given by pére Anselm (1:29) and by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Gerold, count.

This relationship is given by Schmid and by Baldwin.

Mother: Imma (died 798).

This relationship is given by pére Anselme (1:29), by Bühler (p. 384), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Charlemagne.

This relationship is given by pére Anselm (1:29), by Schieffer, and by Baldwin.

Children:

Charles “the younger” (about 772 or 773 - 4 December 811), king of Neustria.

Adélaïde/Adelheid (born and died in 774).

Rotrude (about 775 - 6 June 810), mistress of Rorico, count of Maine.

Pippin (777 - 8 July 810), king of Italy.

Louis I / Ludwig “der Fromme” (778 - 20 June 840), king of Aquitaine, emperor, married (1) Ermengarde, daughter of count Ingram, in 794; married (2) Judith, daughter of count Welf, in 819.

Lothair (778 - 779 or 780).

Berthe (779 or 780 - after 14 January 823), mistress of Angilbert, abbot of Saint-Riquier.

Gisèle (baptized 781).

Hildegarde (782 - June 783).

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. “Hildegarde” in The Henry Project.

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

Dümmler, Ernst. “Hildegard”, in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1880), S. 406-407 [Onlinefassung].

Schieffer, Theodor. “Karl I. der Große”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 11 (1977), S. 157-174 [Onlinefassung].

Schmid, Karl. “Gerold, Graf”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 11 (1964), S. 315 [Onlinefassung].