Gerperga
Gerperga (often also Gerberga ) was the wife of the Carolingian Karlmann I , brother and fellow king of Charlemagne .
After her husband died in 771 and Karl had appropriated his part of the empire, bypassing the sons of Karlmann, Gerperga fled with her children to see Desiderius , King of the Longobards . After that it disappears from tradition.
Confusion of names with Karl's wife
In several sources Gerperga is erroneously referred to as the daughter of Desiderius, probably in confusion with the then wife of Charlemagne , a Lombard princess.
The historian Janet Nelson then put forward the thesis that Karl's wife, whose name remains unmentioned in the sources and is mostly called Desiderata by historians , was also called Gerperga, which would explain the confusion.
literature
- Janet L. Nelson : Making a Difference in Eighth-Century Politics: The Daughters of Desiderius . In: Alexander C. Murray (Ed.): After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1998, pp. 171ff.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerperga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of the Frankish King Karlmann |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 8th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 8th century |