Ermengarde of Tours

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Ermengarde of Tours (c. 810 - 20 Mar 851) was daughter of Hugh of Tours^[1] and Ava of Morvois.

In October 821 in Thionville, Ermengarde married the Carolingian Emperor Lothair I of the Franks (795–855).^[1]

Ermengarde used her bridal gift to found the abbey Erstein in the Elsass,^[2] in which she is buried. Ermengarde died in 851.^[3]

Lothair and Ermengarde had:

• Louis II of Italy^[1]
• Helletrud (Hiltrud) (c. 826–after 865/866)^[4] m. Count Berengar (d. before 865/866)
• Bertha (c. 830–after 7 May 852, probably 877),^[4] became before 847 Abbess of Avenay, perhaps Äbtissin of Faremoutiers
• A daughter of unknown name (b. probably 826/830), called Ermengarde in later sources, kidnapped 846 by Gilbert, Count of the Maasgau, who then married her
• Gisla (c. 830–860)^[4] 851–860 Abbess of San Salvatore in Brescia
• Lothair II^[1]
• Rotrud (baptized 835/840 in Pavia)^[4] m. around 850/851 Lambert, Margrave of Brittany, Count of Nantes (Widonen), who died 1 May 852
• Charles of Provence^[3]

The contemporary poet Sedulius Scottus wrote "Men despise the zither's harmonious music whenever they hear your angelic and golden voice... Your face shines like ivory and blushes like a rose, and excels the beauty of Venus and the nymphs. A dazzling crown of golden hair adorns you, and splendid topaz, as a glittering diadem... Your milk-white neck glistens with beauty, shining with the lustre of lilies or ivory. Your soft white hands dispense myriad gifts, whence they sow on earth to reap in heaven.^[5]

• Bouchard, Constance Brittain (2001). Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia. University of Pennsylvania Press.102
• Heidecker, Karl (2010). The Divorce of Lothar II: Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World. Translated by Guest, Tanis M. Cornell University Press.
• Riche, Pierre (1993). The Carolingians:A Family who forged Europe. Translated by Allen, Michael Idomir. University of Pennsylvania Press.