Bertha

• Name	Bertha
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I7482	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Father	Lothair I,   b. Abt 795,   d. From 28 Sep 855 to 29 Sep 855, Prüm Monastery, Prüm, Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany  (Age ~ 60 years)
  Mother	Ermengarde of Tours,   d. 20 Mar 851
  Married	Oct 821
  Family ID	F3258	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “LOTHAIR I, King of Bavaria, 814-817, King of Italy, 822-825, 829-840, Emperor, 833-834, 840-855 (joint emperor from 817), son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born about 795. He married October 821 ERMENGARDE, daughter of Hugues, Count of Tours, by his wife, Ava. They had three sons, Louis (II) [King of Italy, Emperor], Lothair (II) [King of Lorraine], and Charles [King of Provence], and five daughters, Helletrude (or Hiltrude) (wife of Count Berenger), Bertha [Abbess of Avenay], ___ (wife of Giselbert, Count of Masau and Darnau), Gisele [Abbess of San Salvatore, Brescia], Rotnide (probable wife of Lambert II, Count of Nantes). By an unknown mistress, he also had one illegitimate son, Carlomann. His wife, Ermengarde, died 20 March 851. LOTHAIR I died at Priim monastery in Ardennes 28 (or 29) Sept. 855. Monumenta Germaniæ Historica SS XIII (1881): 219. (Annales Necrologici Prumienses [necrology of Prüm]: "Anno Domini incarn. 855. Lotharius imperator 3. Kal. Octob. feliciter obiit."). Monumenta Germaniæ Historica (Poetae Latini Aevu Carolini 2) (1884): 241 ("Epitaphium Hludharii Imperatoris: Continet hic tumulus memorandi Caesaris ossa / Hlotharii magni, principis atque pii. / Qui Francis, Italis, Romanis praefuit ipsis, Omnia sed sprevit, pauper et hinc abiit. / Nam bis tricenos monachus sic attigit annos, / Et se mutavit, ac bene post obiit. / III. Cal. Octob."). Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 13 (1881): 232 (Annales Lobienses: sub A.D. 855: "Lotharius imperator, qui mutato habitu Prumiae monachus factus fuerat, obiit 3. Kal. Octob.; cui aequivocus filius suus Lotharius successerat, qui eo anno Tiethbergam, sororem Hucberti abbatis, duxit uxorem."). Waitz Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum (in separate editions) 5 (1883): 45 (Annales Bertiniani sub AD. 855: "Lotharius imperator, morbo correptus vitamque desperans, monasterium Proneae in Arduenna constitutum adiit, seculoque et regno penitus abrenuncians, tonsus est, vitam habitumque monachi humiliter sumens. Dispositoque inter filios, qui secum morabantur, regno, ita ut Lotharius cognomen eius Frandam, Karlus vero Provinciam optinerent, intra sex dies vita decessit quarto Kalendarum Octobrium, atque in eodem monasterio sepulturam, ut desideraverat, consecutus est."). Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 13 (1891) 46 (Annales Fuldenses sub AD. 855: "Hlutharius imperator renuntians omnibus, quae habuit, Prumiense monasterium ingressus effectusque ibi monachaus III. Kal. Octobr. mortalem hominem exuit et ad vitam perrexit aeternam."). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 5 (1898): 112 (seal of Lothair I dated AD. 843 - Oval: impression of an antique oval intaglio gem. Bust in profile to the right, crowned with laurel. Perhaps a portrait of Caracalla or Alexander Severus. Legend: + XPE ADIVVA HLOTHARIVM AV[G].). Parisot Royaume de Lorraine sous les Carolingiens (1899). Halphen Recueil d'Annales Angevines et Vendômoises (1903): 53 (Annales de Vendôme sub AD. 855: "Hlothanus rex moritur, prius factus monachus in monasterio Promie oh peccatum persecutionis paterne."). Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) III 8. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 1 (1980): 2 (Die Karolinger). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): III.9, IV.8-IV.15.”