Irmingard of Tours

Irmingard , also Irmgard von Erstein or Hermengard (* around 805; † March 20, 851 in Erstein ) was a daughter of Count Hugo von Tours from the House of Etichones . She was empress and founder of the monastery and is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Irmingard married the Carolingian co-emperor Lothar I (795–855) in Diedenhofen in mid-October 821 . In 834 she received the Abbey of San Salvatore in Brescia. Two years before her death, in 849, she founded a women's abbey with the patronage of Saints Maria and Cecilia near the Palatinate Erstein in Alsace , as a gift she received several large reliquary treasures from Rome . Her daughter Rotrud was installed as the first abbess . After her death Irmingard was buried in the Abbey Church at Erstein; the text to hersEpitaph was written by Hrabanus Maurus OSB .

presentation

Saint Irmingard is depicted in princely garb, her iconographic saints attributes include the crown , the scepter and, as a reference to the monastery foundation, a church model. Her feast day is March 20th.

progeny

Lothar I. and Irmingard had nine children:

Ludwig II (* probably 825; † 875) co-emperor ⚭ Engelberga († March 23, 890 or 891), abbess of San Salvatore in Brescia
Helletrud (Hiltrud) (* probably 826; † after 865/866) ⚭ Count Berengar († before 865/866)
Bertha (* probably 830; † after May 7, 852, probably 877), before 847 Abbess of Avenay , perhaps Abbess of Faremoutiers
Irmingard (* probably 826/830) kidnapped in 846, ⚭ Giselbert , Graf im Maasgau ( Reginare ), 866 Graf im Lommegau , marriage recognized in 849
Gisla (* probably 830; † 860) 851–860 Abbess of San Salvatore in Brescia
Lothar II (* probably 835; † 869) King of Lorraine ⚭ 855 Theutberga , daughter of Count Boso of Arles ( Bosonids )
Rotrud (baptized 835/840 in Pavia ) ⚭ around 850/851 Lambert , Margrave of Brittany , Count of Nantes ( Guidonen ) († May 1, 852)
Karl (* probably 845; † January 24, 863 in the monastery of St-Pierre-les-Nonnains, today Lyon ), king in Burgundy
Karlmann (* 853)

literature

Brigitte Kasten : Empresses in Carolingian times . In: Amalie Fößel (Ed.): The Empresses of the Middle Ages . Verlag Friedrich Pustet , Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7917-2360-0 , p. 11-34, especially pp. 16-18 .
Lexicon of Saints. Weltbild publishing group , Augsburg , 2005, ISBN 3-8289-4980-0 .

Web links

Irmgard von Erstein in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
Thomas Mollen: Saint Irmgard. In: kirchensite.de . March 2004, archived from the original on May 10, 2013 .; accessed on March 20, 2020
Karl-Heinz Schreiber: Irmingard von Tours - Genealogy Middle Ages. In: manfredhiebl.de. September 6, 2011 .; accessed on March 20, 2020

Individual evidence

↑ Lothar I - RI I n. 1138 - 849 sept. 6, Romarici monte. In: Regesta Imperii Online . Archived from the original on June 19, 2018 ; accessed on March 20, 2020 .
↑ Thomas Zotz : Irmgard v. First stone . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 5 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, Sp. 599 .

personal data
SURNAME	Irmingard of Tours
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Wife of the Carolingian co-emperor Lothar I.
DATE OF BIRTH	at 805
DATE OF DEATH	March 20, 851
Place of death	First stone

[1] Lothar I - RI I n. 1138 - 849 sept. 6, Romarici monte. In: Regesta Imperii Online . Archived from the original on June 19, 2018 ; accessed on March 20, 2020 .

[2] Thomas Zotz : Irmgard v. First stone . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 5 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, Sp. 599 .