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Ermengarde of Tours (German: Irmingard von Tours) (died 20 March 851) was the wife of Emperor Lothair I of the Franks. Her father was Hugh of Tours, a member of the Etichonen family, which claimed descent from the Merovingian Kings . In the middle of October 821 in Diedenhofen (Thionville), she married the Carolingian Emperor Lothair I (795-855).

In 849, two years before her death, she made a donation to the abbey Erstein in the Elsass, in which she lies also buried.

Lothar and Irmingard had nine children:

Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor (c. 825-875).
Helletrud (Hiltrud) (c. 826-after 865/866) m. Count Berengar (d. before 865/866)
Bertha (c. 830-after 7 May 852, probably 877), became before 847 Abbess of Avenay, perhaps Äbtissin of Faremoutiers
Ermengarde Duchess Moselle(b. probably 826/830), kidnapped 846, m. Giselbert, Count of Maasgau (Reginare)
Gisla (c. 830-860) 851-860 Abbess of San Salvatore in Brescia
Lothair II of Lotharingia (c. 835-869) king of Lorraine m. 855 Teutberga, daughter of Count Boso of Arles
Rotrud (baptized 835/840 in Pavia) m. around 850/851 Lambert, Margrave of Brittany, Count of Nantes (Widonen), who died 1 May 852
Charles of Provence (c. 845-25 January 863 in the monastery St-Pierre-les-Nonnains, modern Lyon), King in Burgundy
Carloman (b. 853)

Ermengarde married Lothair, Holy Roman Emperor I Oct 821, Diedenhofen. Lothair (son of Louis, the Pious and Ermengarde of Hesbaye) was born 795; died 29 Sep 855, Pruem, Rheinland, Germany; was buried Pruem, Rheinland, Germany. [Group Sheet]

1. Unknown
2. Lothar, King of Lothuringia II was born Abt 826; died 08 Aug 869, Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
3. Louis, II of Italy was born 825; died 12 Aug 875, Ghedi, Brescia, Lombardia, Italy.
4. Charles, Roi de Provence died 863.

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Hugh (or Hugo) (c. 780 - 20 October 837) was the count of Tours and Sens during the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, until his disgrace in February 828. He was probably a son of Count Haicho of the House of the Etichonen.

Hugh had many possessions in Alsace, including the Sens. He also held the convent of St-Julien-d'Auxerre. He appeared in 811 as an envoy or ambasciator to Constantinople with Haido, Bishop of Basel, and Aio, Duke of Friuli, to renew the Pax Nicephori. In 821, he allied himself by marriage to the royal family; his daughter Ermengard married Louis' son Lothair. In 824, he took part in an expedition in Brittany and, in 826, he accompanied the Empress Judith to the baptism of Harald Klak in Ingelheim. His other daughter, Adelaide, married Conrad I, Count of Auxerre (died 862). She is sometimes said to have taken as her second husband Robert the Strong. She was dead by 886, when Walahfrid Strabo included her epitaph in a poem of his.

In 827, Hugh, along with Matfrid of Orléans, was commissioned by Louis to recruit an army with his son Pepin I of Aquitaine and repel the invasion of the Marca Hispanica by the Moslem general Abu Marwan. Hugh and Matfrid delayed until the threat had passed. For this he was given the nickname Timidus or the Timid. Barcelona being the greatest military accomplishment of Louis' career, the Spanish March meant much to him and Hugh and Matfrid found themselves greatly disfavoured at court. They were deposed in February of the next year.

He remained very influential as the father-in-law of Lothair. He joined Matfrid in inciting Lothair to rebellion and had all his lands confiscated in Gaul. He remained highly influential in Italy, where Lothair created him "duke of Locate" (dux de Locate).

Hugh — Bava. [Group Sheet]