Ermengarde, Countess of Auvergne

Ermengarde of Provençe, (c. 984-1042)[a] was Countess of Blois via her marriage to Odo II, Count Blois. She influenced her husband to endow and repair monasteries and churches.

Life

Ermengarde was the daughter of Robert I of Auvergne and Ermengarde of Provence.[2] By 1005 she married Odo II, Count Blois, and was his second wife.[3] After Ermengarde's marriage to Odo, she interceded for the monks at Marmoutier abbey, resulting in her husband building a bridge at Tours.[4] At her insistence, he made its usage toll free.[5] Ermengarde also persuaded Odo into repairing the church at the abbey of Epernay.[5]

Marriage and issue

Ermengard and Odo had:

Notes

  1. ^ Also known as " Ermengarde de Clermont"[1]

References

  1. ^ Bur 1990, p. 319.
  2. ^ Stasser 1990, p. 60.
  3. ^ Norgate 1890, p. 487.
  4. ^ Farmer 1986, p. 523–524.
  5. ^ a b Farmer 1986, p. 524.
  6. ^ a b Munns & Kynan-Wilson 2021, p. xviii.
  7. ^ LoPrete 1999, p. 12.

Sources

  • Bur, Michel (1990). "À propos du nom d'Étienne : le mariage aquitain de Louis V et la dévolution des comtés champenois". Annales du Midi Année (in French). 102-189-190: 319–327.
  • Farmer, Sharon (1986). "Persuasive Voices: Clerical Images of Medieval Wives". Speculum. 61 (3 (July)): 517–543. doi:10.2307/2851594.
  • LoPrete, Kimberly A. (1999). "Adela of Blois : Countess and lord (c.1067-1137)". In Evergates, Theodore (ed.). Aristocratic Women in Medieval France. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 7–43.
  • Munns, John; Kynan-Wilson, William, eds. (2021). Henry of Blois: New Interpretations. The Boydell Press.
  • Norgate, Kate (1890). "Odo of Champagne, Count of Blois and 'Tyrant of Burgundy'". The English Historical Review. 5, No. 19, (July): 486–496.
  • Stasser, Thierry (1990). "Mathilde, fille du Comte Richard » Essai d'identification". Annales de Normandie (in French). 40–1: 49–64.
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