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Personal data Ermengarde der Franken 

• She was born in the year 855.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Wanneer Paus Johannes VIII op de vlucht is voor de Saracenen, komt hij zich verschuilen bij Ermengarde en haar echtgenoot in Arles. Nadat Bosso zich in 879 tot koning had uitgeroepen nam zij deel aan de verdediging tegen de aanvallen van de Karolingische koningen. Einde 880 verdedigde zij met succes Vienne, maar in 882 kon Karel de Dikke Vienne innemen, dat geplunderd werd. Haar schoonbroer Richard I van Bourgondië zette haar gevangen in Autun, terwijl Boso zelf naar de de Provence vluchtte. Na de dood van haar echtgenoot in 887 werd zij regentes over Provence en begeleidde haar zoon Lodewijk naar Karel de Dikke om hem door hem te laten adopteren. In 889 onderwierp zij zich aan Arnulf van Karinthië.
  
  Ermengarde is begraven in de kathedraal van Vienne.

• (Levens event) .

  Ermengard (also Ermengarda, Ermengarde, or Irmingard) was the only surviving daughter of Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor. In 876, she married Boso, from the Bosonid, Count of Vienne, who declared himself King of Provence in 879.
  
  In May 878, she and her husband sheltered Pope John VIII, who was taking refuge from the Saracens, in Arles. After her husband's coup d'état in October 879, she helped defend his cities from her Carolingian relatives. In 880, she successfully defended Vienne itself, the capital, from the combined forces of Charles the Fat and the co-ruling kings of France, Louis III and Carloman. In August 881, the newly-crowned Emperor Charles the Fat pillaged and burned Vienne, forcing Ermengard and her children to take refuge in Autun with her brother-in-law Richard, Duke of Burgundy. Meanwhile, Boso fled into Provence.
  
  On Boso's death in January 887, the Provençal barons elected Ermengard to act as his regent, with the support of Richard. In May, Ermengard travelled with her son Louis to the court of Charles the Fat, and received his recognition of the young Louis as king. Charles adopted Louis as his son and put both mother and son under his protection. In May 889, she travelled to Charles' successor, Arnulf, to make submission anew.

• She died before June 2, 896.
• A child of Lodewijk II van Italië and Engelberga van Parma
• This information was last updated on November 2, 2012.

Household of Ermengarde der Franken

(1) She is married to Constantine van Byzantium.

Permission for the marriage was obtained in 869.Source 2

The couple were divorced in 871.Source 2

Oorzaak: verslechterde relatie tussen beide ouders, basil I en Lodewijk II

(2) She is married to Boso V de Provence.

They got married June 876, she was 21 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Engelberga de Provence  877-901 
2. Ermengarde de Provence  877-> 924 
3. Lodewijk "de blinde" de Provence  881-928 

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