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Birth:           843 
Death:          2 Jun  896 Vienne, Frankish Empire
Burial:         Cathedral of Saint-Maurice, Vienne, Frankish Empire

Notes
b 852/5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengard_of_Italy
Ermengard of Italy, also Ermengarda, Ermengarde, or Irmingard (843-896) was a queen 
and regent of Provence. She was the only surviving daughter of Louis II, Holy Roman 
Emperor.

Life[edit]

Born in 843, in the reign of her grandfather Lothair I, the year that her grandfather and 
great-uncles partitioned the empire of their own father, she grew up relatively 
privileged. Her father, Louis II was the eldest son and co-emperor of Lothair I. In 855, 
when she was 12, Emperor Lothair I died at the age of 60, and her father became Holy 
Roman Emperor. In 876 aged 33, she married Boso, a Frankish nobleman of the 
Bosonid family who was related to the Carolingian dynasty[1] and who rose to become 
King of Lower Burgundy and Provence in 879.

In May 878, she and her husband sheltered Pope John VIII, who was taking refuge 
from the Saracens, in Arles. After her husband's coup d'état in October 879, she 
helped defend his cities from her Carolingian relatives. In 880, she successfully 
defended Vienne itself, the capital, from the combined forces of Charles the Fat and 
the co-ruling kings of France, Louis III and Carloman. In August 881, the newly 
crowned Emperor Charles the Fat pillaged and burned Vienne, forcing Ermengard and 
her children to take refuge in Autun with her brother-in-law Richard, Duke of 
Burgundy. Meanwhile, Boso fled into Provence.

On Boso's death in January 887, the Provençal barons elected Ermengard to act as 
his regent, with the support of Richard. In May, Ermengard travelled with her son 
Louis to the court of Charles the Fat, and received his recognition of the young Louis 
as king. Charles adopted Louis as his son and put both mother and son under his 
protection. In May 889, she travelled to Charles' successor, Arnulf, to make 
submission anew.

Through her marriage to Boso, it is thought that Ermengard had two daughters and a 
son These were:
Ermengarde/Ermengard (c. 877-April 12, 935), married Manasses I the Old, Count of 
Chalons-sur-Seine (Chalon-sur-Saône?); her mother is reported to have been 
Ermengard
Engelberge/Ethelberga, married firstly Carloman II, secondly William the Pious;[2] her 
mother is reported to have been Ermengard
Louis the Blind (before 884-Jun3 5, 928), was betrothed to, and had a relationship 
with but possibly never married Anna/Eudocia Mamikonian, the illigitiate daughter of 
Zoe Zaoutzaina by Constantine VII.[3] Later, he married Adelaide of Burgundy, the 
daughter of Rudolph I of Burgundy and his half-sister Guilla of Provence.[4]

Ermengard died on 2 June 896 in Vienne, then part of the Frankish Empire, and was 
buried in the town's first Cathedral of Saint-Maurice. Her husband had been buried in 
the same cathedral in 887.[5]

Parents
____ Louis II ( 825 - 12 Aug  875)
____ Engelberge (ABT  825 - ABT  900)

Siblings
____ Ermengard ( 843 - 2 Jun  896)

Marriage To OF PROVENCE Boso II (ABT  841 - 11 Jan  887)
    m.  876 

Notes

Parents
OF GORZE [OF METZ] Bivin (Budwine) (Bouin) (ABT  820 -  863)
OF ARLES Richilde (ABT  822 - ABT  883)

Children by OF PROVENCE Boso II ABT  841 - 11 Jan  887
____ Louis III Beronides "the Blind" (ABT  883 - 28 Jun  928)

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