Ermengarde of Tours
Ermengarde of Tours was a Carolinian Empress consort and queen of Italy. She was daughter of Hugh of Tours and Ava of Morvois.
In October 821 in Thionville, Ermengarde married the Carolingian Emperor Lothair I of the Franks.
Ermengarde used her bridal gift to found the abbey Erstein in the Elsass, in which she is buried. Ermengarde died in 851.
Lothair and Ermengarde had:
- Louis II of Italy
- Helletrud m. Count Berengar
- Bertha, became before 847 Abbess of Avenay, perhaps Äbtissin of Faremoutiers
- A daughter of unknown name, called Ermengarde in later sources, kidnapped 846 by Gilbert, Count of the Maasgau, who then married her
- Gisla 851–860 Abbess of San Salvatore in Brescia
- Lothair II
- Rotrud m. around 850/851 Lambert, Margrave of Brittany, Count of Nantes, who died 1 May 852
- Charles of Provence