Death:6/2/896
Princess of Italy and the Holy Roman Empire
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.
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 and who rose to become King of Lower Burgundy and Provence in 879.
Death:6/2/896
Princess of Italy and the Holy Roman Empire
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.
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 and who rose to become King of Lower Burgundy and Provence in 879.
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