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Personal data Gerberga van Bourgondië 

• She was born about 965.
• She died on July 7, 1018.
• A child of Koenraad III van Bourgondië and Mathilde van Frankrijk

Household of Gerberga van Bourgondië

(1) She is married to Herman II van Zwaben.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Mathilde van Zwaben  ± 988-1032 
2. Gisela van Zwaben  ????-1043 

(2) She is married to Hermann I von Werl.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Hermann II von Werl  ????-> 1029 
2. Bernard von Werl  ????-> 1027 
3. Rudolf von Werl  ????-> 1040 

Notes about Gerberga van Bourgondië

GERBERGA (-7 Jul 1018). Herimannus names "filiam Counradi regis Burgundiæ, Gerbirgam" as wife of "Herimannus dux"[205]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Rodulfum II et sororem suam Gepam matrem imperatricis Gisile" as children of "Conradus rex Burgundie" and his wife Mathilde[206]. Wipo names "Herimannus dux Alamanniæ [et] Kerbirga filia Chuonradi regis de Burgundia" as the parents of "regis coniunx Gisela"[207]. "Otto…Romanorum imperator augustus" donated property "in villa Stohchusen in pago Locdorp ac comitatu Herimanni comitis" to Kloster Meschede by charter dated 29 Sep 997 by request of "Gerbirge comitisse"[208]. The necrology of Marchtalen records the death "Non Jul" of "Gerbirc ducissa"[209]. No direct record of her first marriage has so far been identified. However, "Otto tercius…Romanorum imperator augustus" granted privileges to Kloster Oedingen founded by "matrona Gerberga…in comitatu Herimanni eius filii" to the monks of the Marienkapelle at Aachen by charter dated 18 May 1000[210], and Thietmar names "Count Hermann son of Gerberga" when recording his dispute with Dietrich Bishop of Münster in 1016[211]. These two references relate to Hermann [II] Graf von Werl. In addition, "Rodulfus et Bernhardus nati in…Werla" are named as brothers of Empress Gisela in the Annalista Saxo, although not specifying that they were her uterine brothers[212]. m firstly HERMANN [I] Graf von Werl, son of [HEINRICH Graf im Lerigau & his wife ---] (-[985/86]). m secondly ([986]) HERMANN [von Schwaben], son of KONRAD Duke of Swabia & his wife Richlint of Germany (-2/3 May 1003). He was installed in 997 as HERMANN II Duke of Swabia.

Bronnen:

[205] Herimanni Augiensis Chronicon 998, MHG SS V, p. 118. 

[206] Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 986, MGH SS XXIII, p. 773. 

[207] Wiponis, Vita Chuonradi II Imperatoris 4, MGH SS XI, p. 261. 

[208] D O III 254, p. 670. 

[209] Fragmenta Necrologii Marchtalensis, Konstanz Necrologies, p. 201. 

[210] D O III 363, p. 792. 

[211] Thietmar 7.49, p. 342. 

[212] Annalista Saxo 1026. 

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