Gerald I of Savoy
(-)
Imma of Swabia
(-Cir 798)
Hildegarde of Vinzgau
(758-783)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Charles I the Great, King of the Franks

Hildegarde of Vinzgau 1 2 3

  • Born: 758
  • Marriage: Charles I the Great, King of the Franks in 771 in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen)
  • Died: 30 Apr 783, Dudenhofen aged 25

   Another name for Hildegarde was Hildegard of Swabia.

  General Notes:

Hildegard of Savoy was the third wife of Charlemagne. She was the daughter of Gerald I of Savoy, Count of the Vinzgouw and Imma (Emma) of Allemania.
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Hildegard tilhørte gjennom sin mor, Imma, de gamle Schwabenhertugers hus. Hun var søster til Gerold, en bayersk markgreve som nød stor og velfortjent anseelse hos "Karl den Store" og Udalrich, som i 802 var greve i Argengau og Linzgau.

Hun ledsaget Karl til Italien og Roma i 773-774. En av hennes døtre, Adelheid, ble født under Pavias beleiring foran byens porter.

Hennes lykkelige ekteskap ble avbrutt ved hennes død 30.04.783 i Dudenhofen ved Mosel etter at hun hadde født Hildegard.

I "Genealogische Tabellen" av Johann Hübner kalles hun datter til hertug Childebrand i Schwaben og Brandenburg og barnebarn til den alemanniske hertug Gotfred. Det siste sier von Dunkern er feil i "Aus dem Blute Widukinds".


Hildegarde married Charles I the Great, King of the Franks, son of Pepin III the Short of the Franks and Bertrada of Laon, in 771 in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen). (Charles I the Great, King of the Franks was born on 2 Apr 742 and died on 28 Jan 814 in Aix-la-Chapelle, or Aachen, Austrasia.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Later he married a daughter of of Desiderius, King of the Lombards, at the instance of his mother; but he repudiated her at the end of a year for some reason unknown, and married Hildegard, a woman of high birth, of Suabian origin. He had three sons by her - Charles, Pepin and Louis -and as many daughters - Hruodrud, Bertha, and and Gisela. 4

Sources


1 Tore Nygaard, Tore Nygaard's Genealogy (http://www.nygaard.home.se). Erich Brandenburg: Die Nachkommen Karls des Grossen. Leipzig 1935. Mogens Bugge: Våre forfedre, nr. 109. Bent og Vidar Billing Hansen: Rosensverdslektens forfedre, side 60.

2 Brian C. Tompsett, Directory of Royal Genealogical (Datahttp://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html
Brian Tompsett
Department of Computer Science
University of Hull
Hull, UK, HU6 7RX
B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk).

3 Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/).

4 Einhard: The Life of Charlemagne [Einhardi vita Karoli Magni] (translated by Samuel Epes Turner
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880)
http://charlemagne.celtic-twilight.com/einhard/).

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