Gerberga of Burgundy

Gerberga of Burgundy (* 965 or 966; † July 7, 1019 ) came from the Burgundian royal house. Her first marriage was to Count Hermann I of Werl and her second marriage to Duke Hermann II of Swabia .

origin

She was a daughter of King Konrad III. des Friedfertigen (Pacificus), Duke of Burgundy ( Welfen ), and his second wife Mathilde of France, a daughter of Louis IV of France . She was also a niece of Empress Adelheid and King Lothar of France and a niece of Otto I. Thus she was related to both the Carolingians and the Ottonians .

Marriage to Hermann I. von Werl

She was married to Hermann I , Count von Werl , who died around 985 in her first marriage since around 978 (?) . From this marriage she already had several children: Hermann, who succeeded his father as Hermann II , and his brothers Rudolf (also called Ludolf) and Bernhard (I.) . According to current knowledge, the daughter Gisela von Schwaben does not come from this marriage.

At her request, Otto III. the Stockhausen estate , previously owned by a deceased outlaw, the Meschede monastery . She was the founder of the Oedingen monastery , located in the county of her son Hermann II von Werl in the Lochtrop district .

Marriage to Hermann II of Swabia

In her second marriage, around 988, she married Hermann II , Duke of Swabia († May 4, 1003), a Conradin .

She had five more children with him:

• Mathilde (* probably 988; † July 29, 1031/1032), buried in the cathedral in Worms, ∞ I Konrad I, Duke of Carinthia († December 12, 1011, maybe also December 15) ( Salier ), ∞ II Friedrich II., Duke of Upper Lorraine († 1026) ( Wigeriche ), ∞ III Esiko, Count von Ballenstedt, Count in Schwabengau and in the Gau Serimunt († probably 1059/1060)
• Gisela († February 15, 1043, ∞ I around 1002 Bruno , Count (of Braunschweig) († 1012/1014)), ∞ II around 1014 Ernst I , Duke of Swabia († 1015) ( Babenberger ), ∞ III Konrad II . , German Emperor († 1039) (Salier)
• Berchtold (* beginning of 992; † beginning of 993), baptized in Einsiedeln 992, buried in Marchtal
• (controversial) Beatrix († February 23 after 1025), ∞ Adalbero von Eppenstein, Duke of Carinthia (1000 attested, † November 28, 1039), ( Eppensteiner )
• Hermann III. († 1012) 1003, Duke of Swabia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Leidinger: The Counts of Werl and Werl-Arnsberg (approx. 980–1124): Genealogy and aspects of their political history in the Ottonian and Salian times, In: Harm Klueting (ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia, Volume I, The Kurkölniche Duchy of Westphalia from the beginnings of Cologne rule in southern Westphalia to secularization in 1803. Münster 2009 ISBN 978-3-402-12827-5 p. 129
2. ↑ Otto III. (RI II) n. 1236 997 September 29, Aachen RI-online
3. ↑ Otto III. (RI II) n.1370 1000 May 18, Elspe RI-Online

literature

• Johann Suibert Seibertz : Diplomatic family history of the old counts of Westphalia to Werl and Arnsberg . Arnsberg, 1845 ( digitized version) p. 21ff.