Lothair II, king of Lotharingia

Also known as Hlothar, Lothaire, and Lothar.

Events

Date of Birth: about 835 or 837.

Place of Birth: probably in Italy.

Schieffer and Settipani (p. 270) give a birth date of about 835. Heidecker (p. 51) argues that Lothair was about 18 in 855.

Date of Death: 8 August 869.

Place of Death: Piacenza.

The date and place are given by Schieffer, by Settipani (p. 270), and by Baldwin.

Place of Burial: Piacenza, Sant’Antonino

The place is given by Schieffer, by Settipani (p. 270), and by Goetz.

Relationships

Father: Lothair I (about 795 - 855), emperor.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Goetz, by Settipani (p. 265), by Hlawitschka, by Bouchard (p. 102), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Ermengarde (died 851), daughter of Hugues, count of Tours.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Settipani (p. 265), by Hlawitschka, by Bouchard (p. 102), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Theutberge, daughter of Boso. Married 855.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Settipani (p. 272), by Hlawitschka, by Le Jan (p. 454), by Heidecker (p. 51), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Waldrade. Married (unrecognized) in 862.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Settipani (p. 272), by Hlawitschka, by Bouchard (p. 102), and by Baldwin. Settipani states that Waldrada was related to the Alsatian count Eberhard. Heidecker (p. 52) notes that Lothair's relationship with Waldrade began before his marriage to Theutberge, whom he was forced to marry.

Children (by Waldrade):

(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, who states that the mother of the last three is not directly attested. Heidecker (p. 151) notes that the correspondence of pope Nicholas makes clear that Theutberge was childless.)

Hugues, duke of Alsace, married Friderada.

Gisèle (died 907) married Godefrid, Danish king, duke in Frisia.

Bertha (died 8 March 925) married (1) Thibaud, count of Arles; married (2) Adalberto II, margrave in Tuscany.

Ermengarde.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Lothair II” in The Henry Project.

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

Goetz, H.-W. "Lothar II." in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 5c (Stuttgart: 1991).

Heidecker, Karl. The Divorce of Lothar II, (Tanis M. Guest, trans.), (Cornell University Press, 2010).

Hlawitschka, Eduard. Vom Frankenreich zur Formierung der europäishen Staaten- und Völkergemeinschaft 840-1046: Ein Studienbuch. (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 1986).

Le Jan, Régine. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VII^e - X^e siècle): essai d’anthropologie sociale (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995).

Schieffer, Theodor. “Lothar II”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 15 (1987), S. 216-220 [Onlinefassung].

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).