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Gerberga, Queen of Italy. Gerberga, Otto-William 's mother [1] (c. 947 [2] – 986/91), was, by her successive marriages, queen of Italy (c. 958 – 963), margravine of Ivrea (965–970), and duchess of Burgundy (971/5–986/91). Ancestry [ edit] There has been some debate about Gerberga's ancestry.
Gerberga (8th century) was the wife of Carloman I, King of the Franks, and sister-in-law of Charlemagne. Her flight to the Lombard kingdom of Desiderius following Carloman's death precipitated the last Franco-Lombard war, and the end of the independent kingdom of the Lombards in 774.
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Gerberga was born c. 913. She was the second daughter of Henry the Fowler, King of Germany, and his second wife, Matilda. Her older brother was Otto I of Germany.
First marriage
In 929, Gerberga married her first husband, Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine.They had four children: 1. Alberade of Lorraine (b. about 929); married Renaud of Roucy, a Viking chieftain who became the Count of Roucy. 2. Henry, Duke of Lorraine (b. about 932). 3. Gerberge of Lorraine (b. about 935); married Adalbert I of Vermandois. 4. Wiltrude (b. about 937). Jocundus, a Lotharingian chronicler writing in the 1070s, recorded that Gerberga was the driving force behind Gilbert's decision to support her...
Second marriage
When Gilbert died, Gerberga was about 26 years old. She married secondly Louis IV of France in 939.They were parents to eight children: 1. Lothair of France(941–986). 2. Matilda (b. about 943); married Conrad of Burgundy. 3. Hildegarde (b. about 944). 4. Carloman (b. about 945). 5. Louis (b. about 948). 6. Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine(953–993). 7. Alberade (b. before 953). 8. Henry (b. about 953).
Bouchard, Constance Brittain, Those of My Blood: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).Guenée, Bernard (1978). "Les généalogies entre l'histoire et la politique: la fierté d'être Capétien, en France, au Moyen Age". Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (in French). 33e Année, No. 3 (M...Jocundus, Translatio sancti Servatii Tungrensis episcopi et miracula, ed. R. Koepke, MGH SS 12 (Hannover, 1856), accessible online at: Monumenta Germaniae HistoricaEduard Hlawitschka (1964), "Gerberga", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 6, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 256–257; (full text online) (in German)This chapter discusses the career of Gerberga, a sister of Otto I who married the West Frankish (‘French’) king Louis IV in 939. It begins with a disc.
Gerberga, Otto-William's mother, was, by her successive marriages, queen of Italy, margravine of Ivrea (965–970), and duchess of Burgundy (971/5–986/91). Introduction Gerberga, Queen of Italy Ancestry
Gerberga’s queenly status was asserted at particularly tense moments, and this is analysed in charter and textile evidence. The conclusion is that Gerberga’s career is only understandable as a product of the peculiar circumstances of the early to mid-tenth century.
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Gerberga was a Saxon princess, the daughter of Henry the Fowler of Germany and Matilda of Saxony. At age 19, she married Duke Giselbert of Lotharingia, but was widowed only two years later. She then married Louis IV of France as part of an alliance between the French monarch and her father.
