Emma van Italië (948 - 12 oktober na 989) was een dochter van koning Lotharius van Italië en van Adelheid van Bourgondië. Zij huwde in 965 met koning Lotharius van Frankrijk en werd de moeder van de latere Lodewijk V.
Kort na haar huwelijk beschuldigde haar schoonbroer Karel van Neder-Lotharingen Emma van overspel met de bisschop van Laon, maar een synode verklaarde haar nadien evenwel onschuldig. Uit vrees dat Karel van Neder-Lotharingen de troon zou bemachtigen, wanneer haar zoon Lodewijk V als bastaard bestempeld zou worden, bewerkstelligde Emma dat Lodewijk al tijdens het leven van zijn vader medekoning werd.
Na de dood van Lotharius van Frankrijk beschuldigde Lodewijk zijn moeder en de bisschop van Laon ervan zijn vader vergiftigd te hebben en verdreef Emma van het hof.
Wanneer Lodewijk V in 987 sterft zonder erfgenaam, tracht Karel van Neder-Lotharingen diverse malen de troon te bezetten, maar hij stoot hierbij op Hugo Capet, die tenslotte het pleit won, onder meer dankzij het verraad van de bisschop van Laon.
Emma (Hemma) (b. before 950, d. 1005/1006) was a Bohemian duchess consort as the second wife of Boleslaus II of Bohemia.
Her origins are uncertain. The historian Gelasius Dobner (1719-1790) thought she was a princess of Burgundy, and this theory has been recently respected. However the latest research of historians and numismatics indicate that she was of Italian-Burgundian origin and identified with Queen Emma of France (Emma of Italy), widow of King Lothair of France (d. 986). She became the second or wife of Boleslaus I about the year 989 and died either in 1005 or 1006. It was traditionally supposed by Czech historians that Emma was the mother of Boleslaus' younger sons Oldrich and Jaromír and that the mother of the oldest son, Boleslaus III of Bohemia, was Adiva, the first wife of Boleslaus II.
Afraid of Boleslaus III, Emma chose to go into exile at the court of Bavaria in 1001 together with Oldrich and Jaromír. The brothers sought military backing from the German King Henry II. This action definitively placed Bohemia within the jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1004, Jaromír occupied Prague with a German army and made himself Duke. Emma came back to Bohemia, maybe living in Melník, where she died.
The proof of the existence of Duchess Emma are denars (coins) with the inscription ENMA REGINA ("Queen Emma", not duchess).
Emma (born c. 948) was the daughter of Lothair II of Italy (also called Lothair of Arles) and Adelaide of Italy (also called Adelaide of Burgundy, Saint Adelaide), who would later become Holy Roman Empress. She was the last Carolingian Queen Consort of Western Francia (France) by virtue of her marriage to Lothair of France; her son, Louis V of France, was the last Carolingian King.
Born around 948, Emma was the daughter of Lothair of Arles, titular King of Italy, and Adelaide of Burgundy, the heiress to the title. Her paternal grandfather was Hugh of Arles, Regent of Arles; her maternal grandparents were Rudolf II, King of Upper Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia. Rudolf and Hugh had originally contested for the title and lands of the Kingdom of Italy; Hugh had become King of Italy, but was forced to buy peace with Rudolf by giving him Arles (Lower Burgundy). Emma's parents had been married as part of the Peace.
Emma's father was poisoned when she was a young girl, in 950, by his political rival, Berengar of Ivrea. Berengar attempted to marry Emma's mother, an heiress of the Kingdom, to his own son; she defied him, however, and married Otto the Great of Germany instead, becoming mother to future Emperor Otto II.
In 965, Emma was married to the King of Western Francia, Lothair. They had one child, Louis V of France (b.967).
In 977, Emma was accused by her brother-in-law, Charles of Lower Lorraine, of infidelity with Ascelin, Bishop of Laon. The Queen and Bishop were exonerated by the Synod of Sainte-Macre, led by Adalberon, Archbishop of Rheims, and Charles was forced to flee Western Francia. Emma, to ensure her son's succession, then persuaded Lothair to crown him as associated King; Lothair did so, but refused to let him have any real power.
Emma's marriage to Lothair was marked by hostilities between her husband and her half-brother, Emperor Otto II, each invading the other's territories, and attempting to destabilise each other, often through the intermediary of Lothair's brother, Charles (who as Duke of Lower Lorraine was a vassal of the Emperor). The final years of their marriage, however, from 980 onwards, saw peace between Lothair and his in-laws; when Otto II died, he was even advanced as guardian of the young King.
Lothair died on 2 March 986, and their young son Louis became King. However, he promptly drove Emma and Bishop Ascelin of Laon from the Court, accusing them of having poisoned Lothair. Louis then died on 22 May 987, without an heir. In the following months, her brother-in-law Charles seized the royal capital of Laon and declared himself King; Hugh Capet, Duke of the Franks, was elected and crowned King by the agencies of Adalberon on 3 July 987. In the resulting conflicts, Ascelin betrayed Charles to Hugh Capet, as a result of which the last Carolingian was imprisoned in Orleans. Emma's doings following the death of her son are unclear; she is believed to have died in a Burgundian convent.
(1) Sie ist verheiratet mit Boleslav II "de Vrome" van Bohemen.
Sie haben geheiratetQuelle 2
Kind(er):
(2) Sie ist verheiratet mit Lotharius van Frankrijk.
Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 965, sie war 17 Jahre alt.Quelle 1
Kind(er):
Großeltern
Eltern
Geschwister
Kinder
Emma van Italie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(2) 965 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lotharius van Frankrijk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||