Ermengarde of Tours [SEP] father
Ermengarde of Tours
Ermengarde of Tours (d. 20 March 851) was the daughter of Hugh of Tours, a member of the Etichonen family. In October 821 in Thionville, she married the Carolingian Emperor Lothair I of the Franks (795–855).
In 849, two years before her death, she made a donation to the abbey Erstein in the Elsass, in which she is buried.
Lothair and Ermengarde had eight children:
- Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor (c. 825–875).
- Helletrud
-in-law, to Aix-en-Provence. In 843, he married Bertha, daughter of Lothair I (May 800 - Sep 855) and Ermengarde of Tours (800-851). Hugh II (780-837) was Bertha's grandfather.
In 855, Girart became governor of Provence for Lothair's son Charles, nominal king of Provence. His wife Bertha defended Vienne unsuccessfully against Charles the Bald in 870. Girart, who had perhaps aspired to be the titular ruler of the northern part