Hildegard (queen)

Hildegard
Hildegard in an illustration from about 1499
Queen of the Franks
Reignc. 771 – 30 April 783
SuccessorFastrada
Queen of the Lombards
ReignJune 774 – 30 April 783
PredecessorAnsa
SuccessorFastrada
Bornc. 757/758
Died(783-04-30)30 April 783
Thionville
Burial
Abbey of Saint-Arnould, Metz
SpouseCharlemagne (m. c. 771)
IssueCharles the Younger
Pepin of Italy
Adalhaid
Rotrude
Louis the Pious
Lothair
Bertha
Gisela
Hildegard
FatherGerold of Anglachgau
MotherImma of Alemannia

Hildegard (c. 757/758 – 30 April 783) was a Frankish queen and the wife of Charlemagne from c. 771 until her death. Hildegard was a noblewoman of Frankish and Alemannian heritage. Through eleven years of marriage with Charlemagne, Hildegard helped share in his rule as well as having nine children with him, including the kings Charles the Younger and Pepin of Italy and the emperor Louis the Pious.

Life

Hildegard was the daughter of the Frankish count Gerold and his wife, the Alemannian noblewoman Imma. Thegan of Trier, a ninth-century biographer of Hildegard's son Louis emphasizes her Alemannian heritage and descent from duke Gotfrid through her mother, indicating that Imma was of higher status than Gerold.[1] Hildegard was likely born in 757 or 758.[2][3]

Gerold held lands in the vicinity of the Middle Rhine under the Frankish king Carloman I.[2] Carloman died on 4 December 771 and his brother king Charlemagne sought to bring Carloman's lands under his rule. Charlemagne arranged to marry Hildegard and gain Gerold's support.[4][2] Hildegard married Charlemagne shortly after Carloman's death, certainly before 30 April 772.[5] She was thirteen or fourteen years old at the time of the marriage.[6] By marrying Hildegard, Charlemagne ended his marriage to a daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius.[7] Charlemagne had also had a previous relationship (perhaps a marriage) with the Frankish noblewoman Himiltrude, and had a son with her named Pepin.[8] As queen, Hildegard would have been responsible for administering the royal household and estates.[9] She also joined her husband as the co-signer of charters, including grants of patronage to monasteries.[10]

Charlemagne took Hildegard to the Frankish royal palace at Thionville, where they stayed for two months before he set off on a campaign in Saxony.[11] At the end of the campaigning season, Charlemagne returned to Thionville, and during this period the couple's son Charles was born.[12] At Thionville, Charlemagne received an emissary from Pope Adrian I who was seeking his help against Desiderius.[13] Charlemagne, heeding the Pope's call for aid, invaded Lombardy in late 773 and besieged the Lombard capital of Pavia.[14] In early 774, Charlemagne sent for Hildegard to travel to the Frankish camp at Pavia with Pippin and Charles. Hildegard was heavily pregnant, and gave birth to a daughter named Adelhaid during the siege. They sent the baby back north to Francia for safety, but she died on the way.[15] By June, Charlemagne conquered the city, deposed Desiderius and his wife Ansa, and named himself king of the Lombards.[16][17] Charlemagne and Hildegard likely went through a ritual installation as the new king and queen in Pavia (though no direct source exists),[18] and a charter issued in Lombardy in July was a grant of Lombard land to the Abbey of St. Martin made in both of their names.[17]

The royal family returned to Francia later in the summer of 774.[19] The next year, as Charlemagne campaigned in Saxony, Hildegard gave birth to their daughter Rotrude.[20] Their next child was Carloman, born in 777.[21] In 778, Hildegard traveled with Charlemagne to Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, where he was amassing his army for a campaign in Spain.[22] Hildegard was pregnant when they arrived, and gave birth to twin boys, Louis and Lothair, while Charlemagne was on campaign.[23] Lothair died in 780 at the age of two,[24] the same year Hildegard gave birth to another daughter, Bertha.[25]

In 781, Charlemagne and Hildegard traveled to Rome with Louis, Carloman, and their daughters at Pope Adrian's request.[26] Carloman was four years old, but his parents had delayed his baptism so that the Pope could perform it.[27] Carloman was baptized, and Adrian then crowned him as king of the Lombards (later styled king of Italy) and Louis as king of Aquitaine.[28][29] As part of Carloman's baptism, he was renamed Pepin, now sharing a name with his half-brother.[27] The two new kings, still young children, were sent to their new kingdoms to be raised by regents and advisors in their own courts.[30] On this trip to Italy, Hildegard also gave birth to her third daughter, Gisela, and she was baptized in Milan.[31] Around this time, Hildegard and Charlemagne jointly commissioned the Godescalc Evangelistary, a surviving illuminated manuscript of the Gospels and exemplary piece of Carolingian Renaissance art.[32]

Hildegard had her final pregnancy in 782–783, and she and Charlemagne stayed in the palace at Thionville during that winter. Hildegard gave birth to another daughter in late April, but died shortly after on 30 April 783, possibly due to complications from the birth. The baby was named in her mother's honor, but also died less than two months later. Hildegard was buried at the Abbey of Saint-Arnould at Metz, and Charlemagne arranged for her tomb to be perpetually lit and for daily masses to be said there, as well as commissioning an epitaph in her honor from his courtier Paul the Deacon.[33]

Children

In her marriage to Charlemagne, Hildegard had nine children:[34][35][6]

Louis and Pepin both married and had children.[37] Rotrude had been betrothed to Emperor Constantine VI, but this betrothal was ended.[38] None of Hildegard's daughters married, though several had children with unmarried partners: Bertha had two sons, Nithard and Hartnid with Charlemagne's courtier Angilbert; and Rotrude had a son named Louis possibly with Count Rorgon.[39]

References

  1. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 110.
  2. ^ a b c Nelson 2019, p. 111.
  3. ^ Collins 1998, p. 41.
  4. ^ Costambeys, Innes & MacLean 2011, p. 66.
  5. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 114.
  6. ^ a b McKitterick 2008, p. 90.
  7. ^ Nelson 2019, pp. 109–110.
  8. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 91.
  9. ^ Fried 2016, pp. 170, 321–322.
  10. ^ Klaus Schreiner: "Hildegardis regina". Wirklichkeit und Legende einer karolingischen Herrscherin, in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 57 (1975), p. 8.
  11. ^ Nelson 2019, pp. 114–115.
  12. ^ Nelson 2019, pp. 118, 133.
  13. ^ Nelson2019, p. 118.
  14. ^ Costambeys, Innes & MacLean 2011, pp. 66–67.
  15. ^ a b Nelson 2019, p. 133.
  16. ^ Collins 1998, pp. 61–62.
  17. ^ a b Nelson 2019, pp. 144–146.
  18. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 146.
  19. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 147.
  20. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 156.
  21. ^ Barbero 2004, p. 135.
  22. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 168.
  23. ^ Nelson 2019, pp. 171–172.
  24. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 173.
  25. ^ a b Nelson 2019, p. 181.
  26. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 181–182.
  27. ^ a b Nelson 2019, p. 183.
  28. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 182.
  29. ^ Fried 2016, p. 136.
  30. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 186.
  31. ^ Fried 2016, p. 138.
  32. ^ Fried 2016, pp. 136–138, 248–249.
  33. ^ Nelson 2019, pp. 203–205.
  34. ^ Nelson 2019, pp. xxxiv–xxxv.
  35. ^ Costambeys, Innes & MacLean 2011, p. xxi.
  36. ^ Nelson 2019, pp. 382–383.
  37. ^ McKitterick 2008, pp. 91–93.
  38. ^ Nelson 2019, pp. 225–226.
  39. ^ Nelson 2019, p. 441.

Bibliography

  • Barbero, Alessandro (2004). Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. Translated by Allan Cameron. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23943-2.
  • Becher, Matthias (2005). Charlemagne. Translated by Bachrach, David S. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09796-2.
  • Collins, Roger (1998). Charlemagne. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-333-65055-4.
  • Costambeys, Marios; Innes, Matthew; MacLean, Simon (2011). The Carolingian World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-56366-6.
  • Fried, Johannes (2016). Charlemagne. trans. Peter Lewis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674737396.
  • McKitterick, Rosamond (2008). Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-47285-2.
  • Nelson, Janet L. (2019). King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520314207.
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