Gerberga OF SAXONY (914-984)

Individual Events and Attributes

Marriage (1)

Marriage (2)

	Charles and his brother Lothair of France		Matilda, Queen of Burgundy

Individual Note

Gerberga of Saxony (c. 913–5 May 984) was a daughter of Henry the Fowler, King of Germany, and Matilda of Ringelheim.

Marriages

She married first Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine. They had four children:

Alberade of Lorraine b. about 929. Married Renaud (originally as Ragenold), a Viking chieftain who became the Count of Roucy [1]

Henry, Duke of Lorraine b. about 932

Gerberge of Lorraine b. about 935. Married Adalbert I of Vermandois.

Wiltrude, b. about 937.

She married secondly Louis IV of France in 939. They were parents to eight children:

Lothair of France (941-986)

Matilda b. about 943; married Conrad of Burgundy

Hildegarde b. about 944

Carloman b. about 945

Louis b. about 948

Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine (953-993)

Alberade b. before 953

Henry b. about 953

Education and later life

Contemporary sources describe her as a highly educated, intelligent and forceful player in the political game of the time.

Louis IV died on 10 September 954. As a widow, Gerberga became a nun and served as the abbess of Notre Dame in Laon. She died in Reims, Champagne.

NOTES:

1 NORTHERN FRANCE NOBILITY". http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORTHERN%20FRANCE.htm#RagenoldRoucydied967.

SOURCES:

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. (2001) Those of My Blood: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia. University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Women in power 750-1000" from Guide2womenleaders.com, last accessed January 13, 2007²

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