Hedwig | |
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| Born | c. 778 Alamannia |
| Died | c. 835 Bavaria |
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| Spouse(s) | Welf |
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Hedwig also Heilwig, (c. 778 – c. 835) was a Saxon noblewoman, abbess,[1] the wife of Count Welf,[2] and mother-in-law of Emperor Louis the Pious through his marriage to Judith, her daughter.[3]
Life
editShe was possibly born at Altdorf in the Frankish lands of Alamannia (present-day Germany). According to Bishop Thegan of Trier, she was a member of the Saxon high nobility, being the daughter of Count Isambart and Thiedrada.
She had a sister, Adalung des Franken; half-brother, Hunfrid I, Margrave of Istria; and a brother, Guelph, Count of Andechs.
In her later life (c. 835), she became the abbess of Chelles near Paris.[1] Her Husband, Welf died in c. 825.
Hedwig died in c. 835 and was buried in the Basilica of Saint Martin, in modern day Baden-Wurttemberg.[4]
Marriage and issue
editHedwig was married to Count Welf I and together they had the following children:
- Judith of Bavaria (c. 797–843); married Louis the Pious, who was King of the Franks and co-emperor of the Holy Roman Empire with his father, Charlemagne
- Conrad I, Count of Auxerre c. 800–864;[5] ancestor of the Welf kings of Burgundy
- Rudolph, Count of Ponthieu (c. 802–866)[6]
- Hemma (c. 803–876); married Louis the German, King of East Francia and son of Louis the Pious
- Mathilda d'Andech von Altdorf
Through her marriage to Welf, she is the matriarch of the dynastic Welf family[7] and is an ancestor of the Carolingian dynasty, the Kings of Italy, Russia, Britain and the Bavarian Welfs.
Gallery
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Husband Welf I -
Tomb effigy of daughter Queen Hemma -
Daughter, Judith of Bavaria -
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Pierre Riche, The Carolingians, A family who Forged Europe (translated by Michael Idomir Allen; University of Philadelphia Press, 1993), pp. 52, 149.
- ^ "Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches". www.friesian.com. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ "Hedwig (Eigilwich) of Saxony, Duchess of Bavaria b. Abt 780 of Bavaria, Germany d. 826 : Cumberland Family Software". web.archive.org. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ "Hedwig (Heilwig) von Sachsen (775-843) - Find a..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ The Annals of Fulda. (Manchester Medieval series, Ninth-Century Histories, Volume II.) Reuter, Timothy (trans.) (Manchester University Press, 1992).
- ^ by Cesare Rivera, I Conti de' Marsi e la loro discendenze fino alla fondazione dell'Aquila, (Teramo, 1915).
- ^ Halliday, Sir Andrew (1826). Annals of the house of Hanover. Vol. 1. London, UK: N. Sams. OCLC 674208974. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
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