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| Hildegarde of Vinzgau
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Hildegarde of Vinzgau 1 2 3
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. 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 |
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.
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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/).
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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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