Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou

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Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou - Wikipedia

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Ermengarde of Anjou
Born	c. 956
Died	circa 1024
Noble family	Ingelger
Spouse(s)	Conan I of Rennes William II of Angoulême
Father	Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou
Mother	Adele of Meaux

Ermengarde of Anjou (c. 956 - c. 1024)^[a] was the Countess of Rennes, Regent of Brittany (992–994) and also Countess of Angoulême.

Life

Ermengarde-Gerberga was born c. 956,^[1] the daughter of Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou and Adele of Meaux.^[2] She married Conan I of Rennes, Count of Rennes, in 973.^[3] Her husband Conan of Rennes opposed her father and brother Fulk even though the marriage was apparently designed to form a political alliance between Anjou and Brittany.^[4] Even after Conan had been killed by Fulk at the Battle of Conquereuil in 992, and during the period 992-994 when Ermengarde was Regent for their son Geoffrey, she remained loyal to her brother Fulk III, Count of Anjou.^[4] In 992, following the interests of her brother, and functioning as Regent, she accepted Capetian over-lordship for Rennes while rejecting that of Odo I, Count of Blois.^[5]

About 1000^[6] her brother Fulk III arranged his widowed sister to marry, secondly, William II of Angoulême, one of his close allies.^[7]

Issue

Ermengarde married Conan I 'le Tort' Count of Rennes, she had the following children:

Judith (982–1017), married Richard II, Duke of Normandy.^[3]
Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany, the eventual heir to Conan I.^[3]
Judicael, count of Porhoët (died 1037).^[3]
Hernod.^[3]

William II 'Taillefer' Count of Angoulême, married Gerberga and had the following children:

Alduin II, Count of Angoulême (d. 1032), married Alaisia de Gasçogne.^[6]
Geoffrey, Count of Angoulême (d.1048), married 1st Petronille d'Archiac, 2nd Anceline.^[6]
Fulk of Angoulême, married Aynors.^[6]
Odon (flourished c. 1030).^[6]
Arnauld (died young).^[6]
William (died young).^[6]

Notes

^ She is called Ermengarde in northern [French] sources however at least one early southern source calls her Gerberga. Angevins were known to give daughters two names as evidenced by her aunt, called Adelaide-Blanche. See: Bachrach, 'Henry II and the Angevin Tradition', Albion, Vol. 16, No. 2, (1984), p. 117 n. 35; Crisp, 'Consanguinity and the Saint-Aubin Genealogies, Haskins Society Journal 14 (2005), p. 114; also: Bachrach, ""Fulk Nerra, (1993), p. 42.

References

^ Bernard S. Bachrach, Fulk Nerra the Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040 (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1993), p. 9
^ Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1984), Tafel 49
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1984), Tafel 75
^ ^a ^b Bernard S. Bachrach, Henry II and the Angevin Tradition of Family Hostility, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, (Summer, 1984), p. 117
^ Bernard S. Bachrach, Henry II and the Angevin Tradition of Family Hostility, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, (Summer, 1984), p. 117 n. 38
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany. 1989), Tafel 817
^ Archibald R. Lewis, The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050 (University of Texas Press, 1965, p. 337) Online copy viewable here.

Royal titles
Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou House of Ingelger
Preceded by Aremburge of Ancenis	Duchess consort of Brittany	Succeeded by Hawise of Normandy

Royal consorts of Brittany

Consorts to early monarchs

c. 578–907	Argentaela Marmohec Wembrit Prostlon of Brittany Lotitia of Brittany Oreguen of Rennes

House of Nantes

938–958	Roscille of Anjou Aremburge

House of Rennes

958–1072	Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou Hawise of Normandy Bertha of Blois

House of Cornouaille

1072–1156	Constance of Normandy Ermengarde of Anjou Matilda FitzRoy

House of Penthièvre

1156–1196	Margaret of Huntingdon

House of Dreux

1221–1341	Blanche of Navarre Yolande of Dreux Isabella of Castile Joan of Savoy

War of the Breton Succession

1341–1365	Joanna of Flanders

Montfort of Brittany

1365–1514	Mary of Waltham Joan Holland Joan of Navarre Joan of France Isabella of Scotland Françoise d'Amboise Catherine of Luxembourg-Saint-Pol Margaret of Brittany Margaret of Foix

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1514–1547	Catherine de' Medici

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