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Persönliche Daten Ermengarde d' Anjou Duchess of Aquitaine [undCh-Wikibio] 

• Auch bekannt als Hermengard de Bretagne.
• Sie ist geboren rund 1072 in Anjou, Pays de la Loire, France.Quellen 1, 2, 3
• Sie ist verstorben am 1. Juni 1147.Quellen 2, 4
• Sie wurde begraben in Ille-et-Vilaine.
• Ein Kind von Fulk IV or Foulques IV "Le Rechin" Comte d' Anjou und Hildegarde de Beaugency
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 19. Oktober 2023.

Familie von Ermengarde d' Anjou Duchess of Aquitaine [undCh-Wikibio]

(1) Sie ist verheiratet mit William VII Count of Poitou.

Sie haben geheiratet in 1st husband, 1st wife.Quelle 5

Das Paar ist geschieden.

(2) Sie ist verheiratet mit Alan IV Fergant Duke of ADDED Brittany.

Sie haben geheiratet nach 1090 in 2nd husband, 2nd wife.Quellen 6, 7

Kind(er):

1. Conan III "Le Gross" Duke of Brittany  ± 1091-1148 
2. Hawise Fergant of Brittany  ± 1100-???? 
3. Geoffrey ADDED Brittany  

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8th-9th-10th-11th great grandchild just around 10 times as such a multi-ancestral path descendant of ,
Charlemagne, first Holy Roman Emperor [HRE]---coronation on 25 December 800 in Rome---
with HREs so created and so serving until Augu st 6, 1806, when the Empire was disbanded.

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Ermengarde of Anjou (died 1146)
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Ermengarde of Anjou

Duchess consort of Aquitaine
Tenurec. 1089 - c. 1091
Duchess consort of Brittany
Tenure1093 - 1112
Bornc. 1068
Angers
Died1 June 1146
Jerusalem
BurialIlle-et-Vilaine
SpouseWilliam IX, Duke of Aquitaine
Alan IV, Duke of Brittany
IssueHawise of Brittany
Conan III, Duke of Brittany
Geoffroy de Bretagne
HouseHouse of Anjou
FatherFulk IV, Count of Anjou
MotherHildegarde of Beaugency
Ermengarde of Anjou (c. 1068 – 1 June 1146), also known as Ermengarde of Brittany, was a member of the comital House of Anjou and by her two marriages was successively Duchess of Aquitaine and Brittany. She was also a patron of Fontevraud Abbey. Ermengarde was the regent of Brittany during the absence of her spouse, Duke Alan IV of Brittany, from 1096 until 1101.

Life
Early years
Born in Angers she was the eldest child of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Hildegarde of Beaugency.[1] Having lost her mother in 1070, at only two years of age, she received an education, possibly at the abbey of Ronceray,[2] and grew to be pious and concerned about religious reform, especially the struggle against the secular appropriation of church property. In her youth, Ermengarde was noted for her intelligence and beauty in a poem by Marbode of Rennes in which he offers also offers her spiritual guidance and advice.[3]

Possible Duchess of Aquitaine
It has been recorded that Ermengard was the wife of William IX of Aquitaine.[4] It has long been presumed that, in 1089, her marriage was arranged to the young Duke and poet, William IX of Aquitaine. However, this union proved a dismal failure. Her husband was a voracious philanderer, whose affairs infuriated his wife. She had severe mood swings, vacillating between vivacity and sullenness, and would nag her husband. She also had a habit of retiring in bad temper to a cloister after an argument, cutting off all contact with the outside world, before suddenly making a reappearance in the court as if her absence had never occurred. Such behavior, coupled with her failure to conceive a child, led William to send her back to her father and have the marriage dissolved in 1091. Her behavior during her marriage to the Duke has been described by both Marion Meade and Alison Weir as "schizophrenic", with Weir adding a suggestion of "manic depression".[citation needed]

However, Ruth Harvey's 1993 critical investigation[5] shows the assumption of William's marriage to Ermengarde to be based largely on an error in a nineteenth-century secondary source and it is highly likely that Philippa of Toulouse was William's only wife. Further research [6] has found the claim that William was married to "Hermingerda", daughter of Fulk IV of Anjou is based on the very unreliable chronicle of William of Tyre, written between 1169 and 1187, more than 70 years after the events in question would have taken place. Tyre erroneously identifies Ermengarde's mother as Bertrand of Montfort, the sister of Amalricus de Montfort when her mother was in fact Audearde or Hildegarde of Beaugency. Tyre's chronicle lacks any contemporary corroboration, no primary text ever mentions a marriage between William and Ermengarde. It is therefore not only improbable that William married Ermengarde of Anjou, it is likely that he was never married to a woman named Ermengarde at all.

But Stephen Philp, poet and mediaeval historian, has counter-argued that Tyre's apparent error in the names is not in itself proof a marriage between William and a woman named Ermengarde never took place, especially as several sources give colorful accounts of the marriage and its aftermath.[7]

Duchess and regent of Brittany
In 1092[8] or 1093, her father married her to Duke Alan IV of Brittany,[1] probably to secure an alliance against Normandy, then controlled by William the Conqueror's son, Robert Curthose. Though her marriage was arranged for political reasons this does not mean that Ermengarde would have been seen as inferior to her husband. It was not uncommon that noble women in twelfth century France actually wielded more political power than their husbands.[9] The union produced three children: the future Duke Conan III, Hawise and, Geoffrey.[10] It is also suggested that during her time as duchess, Ermengarde may have raised her half-brother Fulk V alongside her own children.[11]

Ermengarde, seemingly unhappy in her marriage to Alan IV, repeatedly attempted to have her marriage annulled so that she could focus on religious rather than public life. Her requests were denied by religious authorities on the grounds that she did not have a witness to support her claim of consanguinity.[12] Robert of Arbrissel, whom she kept correspondence with, told Ermengarde that it was her "duty to remain in the world, despite your desire to leave it, and to fulfill God's will concerning you."[13] This letter from Robert of Arbrissel includes over 100 biblical references as well as references to religious leaders and Roman poets, showing that Robert knew Ermengarde to be intelligent and well read.[13] It was not uncommon that noblewomen were better educated and more literate than noblemen during the Middle Ages as women were often expected to maintain their own properties and those of their husbands.[14]

Ermengarde was also known to receive advice from other religious leaders of the time including Geoffrey of Vendome and St. Bernard of Clairvaux.[3] Some scholars such as Shawn Madison Krahmer have noted that the letters surviving from St. Bernard of Clairvaux to Ermengarde show a level of intimacy and fondness that would suggest a close friendship between the two rather than a simply advisory correspondence.[15]

When her husband left for Palestine in 1096 to take part in the First Crusade, Ermengarde served as Regent of the Duchy of Brittany from 1096 until 1101.[1] Despite being a time of political instability in Brittany,[2] Ermengarde proved to be a popular and effective ruler maintaining stability during the Duke's absence by utilizing her familial ties and alliances.[16] Ermengarde remained active in ruling alongside Alan upon his return from the crusades. Ermengarde was also effective in her political role by having close ties and a level of influence over the church, becoming an important supporter of reforms.[17] In a letter to Ermengarde Geoffrey of Vendome praised her abilities as a leader saying that she was "fighting for God rather than caught up in worldly affairs."[18]

She spent little time in Rennes or the west of Brittany, preferring Nantes and the Saumur region. Influenced by Robert of Arbrissel, she approved the expansion of the abbey at Fontevraud, to which she withdrew from 1103 to 1105 due to marital issues with Alan.[11] In 1112, Ermengarde's husband, Alan, abdicated his position as Duke and entered the monastery of Redon as a monk where he remained until his death.[1] Ermengarde continued to rule the county alongside her son, Conan III for many years.[1]

Later life
During her marriage to Duke Alan IV of Brittany, Ermengarde repeatedly tried to become a nun, however she was continually refused due to her being married.[8] It was not unusual that noblewomen would retire to a monastery in later life, but it was not common for these noblewomen to take up religious vows as Ermengarde tried to.[19] By 1116 Ermengarde was living in Fontevrault Abbey, where she reputedly became a friend of her first husband's second wife, Philippa of Toulouse. In 1118 after the death of Philippa, Ermengarde decided to avenge her deceased friend. She went south from Fontevrault to the court of her former husband, Duke William of Aquitaine, where she demanded to be recognized as the rightful Duchess. William ignored this remarkable request. Accordingly, in October 1119, she suddenly appeared at the Council of Reims, being held by Pope Calixtus II, demanding that the Pope excommunicate William, oust his mistress from the ducal palace, and restore Ermengarde to her rightful place as the Duchess of Aquitaine. The Pope "declined to accommodate her"; however, Ermengarde continued to trouble William for several years afterwards.

In 1121, Ermengarde and her half-brother, Fulk V of Anjou, established a Cistercian monastery in Anjou at Louroux.[20] The siblings signed a charter placing an endowment in the name of their father at the abbey of Ronceray in 1129, and donated gifts to the nuns.[21]

Following Fulk's departure for the Holy Land to become King of Jerusalem (c. 1128), Ermengarde was allowed to become a Cistercian nun by St Bernard of Clairvaux at the Priory of Larrey near Dijon in 1130.[8][20] She left the priory by 1132 and visited her brother, Fulk, who had just become king of Jerusalem. While visiting King Fulk in the Holy Land, Ermengarde sponsored the building of a church in Nablus near Jacob's Well. She later spent some time at the convent of Saint Anne in Jerusalem until her brother was deposed in a revolt led by Count Hugh II of Jaffa. After returning to Brittany by 1134, she and her son Conan III founded the Cistercian monastery of Benzay near Nantes in 1135.[8][22]

Death
Ermengarde at one point went on crusade to Palestine; she returned ten years later, and some historians believe her life ended in Jerusalem at the convent of Saint Anne. But obituary lists at Redon Abbey record a date of death in 1146 in Redon where her second husband, Alan IV was buried. It is believed that she died a nun. The contradictions about her death and the records of her burial maybe indicated that in fact she died in Jerusalem, and that her body was subsequently transferred to Redon.

References
Livingstone 2018, p. 166.
Livingstone 2018, p. 167.
Venarde, Bruce L. (2011). "Robert of Arbrissel and Women's Vita Religiosa: Looking Back and Ahead". Female vita religiosa between late antiquity and the High Middle Ages: structures, developments and spatial contexts. Gert Melville, Anne Müller, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte. Conference. Berlin. p. 339. ISBN 978-3-643-90124-8. OCLC 762985027.
Fajardo-Acosta 2022, p. 133.
Harvey, Ruth. "The wives of the 'first troubadour', Duke William IX of Aquitaine". Journal of Medieval History, Volume 19, Issue 4, 1993, pp. 307–325
Wolterbeek, Marc. "Inventing History, Inventing Her Story: The Case of William of Aquitaine's Marital Affairs". Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of California, Berkeley, March 1995, and International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 1995
J. A. Everard, Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire 1158–1203, (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 10.
Mayer, Hans Eberhard (1989). Angevins versus Normans: the new men of King Fulk of Jerusalem. American Philosophical Society. p. 8. OCLC 1026713352.
Koziol, Geoffrey; Bull, Marcus (2002). "Political Culture: Queens and Countesses". France in the Central Middle Ages. Oxford University Press. p. 63.
Lurio, Melissa B. (2005). "A Proposed Genealogy for Marbode, Angevin Bishop of Rennes, 1096-1123". Medieval Prosopography. 26: 54–55 – via JSTOR.
Livingstone 2018, p. 173.
Schenck, William; O'Sullivan, Daniel E. (2013). "From Convent to Court: Ermengarde d'Anjou's Decision to Reenter the World". Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-78204-071-2. OCLC 919585318.
Venarde, Bruce L. (2011). "Robert of Arbrissel and Women's Vita Religiosa: Looking Back and Ahead". Female vita religiosa between late antiquity and the High Middle Ages: structures, developments and spatial contexts. Gert Melville, Anne Müller, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte. Conference. Berlin. p. 337. ISBN 978-3-643-90124-8. OCLC 762985027.
Livingstone, Amy (2007), "Powerful Allies and Dangerous Adversaries: Noblewomen in Medieval Society", Women in Medieval Western European Culture, Routledge, pp. 12, 14–15, doi:10.4324/9780203054871-5, ISBN 9780203054871, retrieved 2022-05-03
Krahmer, Shawn Madison (1992). "Interpreting the Letters of Bernard of Clairvaux to Ermengarde, Countess of Brittany: The Twelfth Century Context and the Language of Friendship". Cistercian Studies Quarterly. 27: 219–220.
Livingstone 2018, pp. 169–171.
Livingstone 2018, p. 172.
Schenck, William; O'Sullivan, Daniel E. (2013). "From Convent to Court: Ermengarde d'Anjou's Decision to Reenter the World". Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner. Vol. 28. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-78204-071-2. OCLC 919585318.
Jewell, Helen M. (2007). Women in the Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe c. 500–1200. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. p. 103.
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Sources
Livingstone, Amy (2018). van Houts, Elisabeth (ed.). "Daughter of Fulk, Glory of Brittany': Countess Ermengarde of Brittany (c.1070–1147)". Anglo-Norman Studies XL (Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2017). The Boydell Press: 165–178. doi:10.1017/9781787443051.011. ISBN 9781787443051.
Fajardo-Acosta, Fidel (2022). "Proscribed Communication: The Obscene Language of the Troubadour William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and VII Count of Poitiers". In Classen, Albrecht (ed.). Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives. Walter de Gruyter GmbH. pp. 109–158.133
Further reading
Livingstone, Amy (December 2017). "'You will dwell with barbarous and uneducated men': Countess Ermengarde and Political Culture in Twelfth-Century Brittany" (PDF). History. 102 (353): 858–873. doi:10.1111/1468-229x.12518. ISSN 0018-2648.
Preceded by
Hildegarde of Burgundy
Duchess consort of Aquitaine
1089–1093Succeeded by
Philippa, Countess of Toulouse
Preceded by
Constance of Normandy
Duchess consort of Brittany
1093–1112Succeeded by
Maud FitzRoy
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Royal consorts of Brittany
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