DE SWABIA, Hildegarde Taliaferro
757 - 814 (56 years)
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Name DE SWABIA, Hildegarde Taliaferro Birth 2 Apr 757 Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 
- Swabia, Aachen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Gender Female Relation to Me 37 GGM Royalty & Nobility Empress the Holy Roman Empire Death 28 Jan 814 Metz, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France Person ID I56 My Genealogy Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father VON VINZGAU VON SWABIA VON ALAMANIA, Gerold I Count, b. 735, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany d. 30 Apr 799, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (Age 64 years) Relationship natural Mother VON BAYERN, Emma Duchess of Swabia, b. 736, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 798, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (Age 62 years) Relationship natural Family ID F60 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family CHARLEMAGNE, b. 2 Apr 742, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany d. 28 Jan 814, Aix-La-Chapelle (French name for city of Aachen), Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (Age 71 years) Marriage 771 Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Children 1. FRANCE, Charles Younger Emperor, b. Between 772 and 773, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany d. 811, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (Age 39 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. LOUIS, b. 25 Sep 778, Casseneuil, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France d. 20 Jun 840 (Age 61 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. CAROLINGIEN, Bertha, b. Abt 779, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany d. 14 Jan 822, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (Age 43 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, ROTRUDE Carolingian of the, b. 775, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. Maine, Normandy, France [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 5. PEPIN, I, b. 2 Apr 773, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 8 Jul 810, Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy (Age 37 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]6. DEAQUITAINE, Alpais, b. Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany d. Aquitaine, France [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]7. CAROLIGIEN, Aupais Alpais, b. Casseneuil, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France d. France [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]8. HILTRUDE, b. Alsace, France d. Tours, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F14 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Birth - 2 Apr 757 - Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 
Marriage - 771 - Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany 
Death - 28 Jan 814 - Metz, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France = Link to Google Earth
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Hildegard of the Vinzgau - Wikipedia
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Notes - An intense physical relationship between the spouses was demonstrated by the fact that, during her 12 years of marriage, Hildegard had 8 pregnancies (including one set of twins) and remarkably chronicles never mentioned either miscarriages or stillbirths. She accompanied Charlemagne on many of his militar campaigns: she gave birth her second child and first daughter, Adelaide, during the siege of Pavia, capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards (September 773/June 774), but she died during the return journey to France. In 778, Hildegard accompanied her husband as far as Aquitaine, where she gave birth the twins Louis and Lothair.[9] In 780/781 she traveled with Charlemagne and four of their children to Rome, where the sons Louis and Carloman (renamed Pepin after his baptism by Pope Adrian I) were appointed sub-kings of Aquitaine and Italy, respectively. This contributed to the strengthening of the alliance between the Carolingians and the Papacy.[10] Because of her frequent pregnancies, can be presumed that Hildegard accompanied her husband on further campaigns, at least temporarily.
What is also remarkable about Charles, particularly during that era, is the genuine affection that he had for his children. They travelled with him everywhere he went, the sons at his side, the daughters behind. They dined with him. He was reported to be so fond of his daughters that none of them was allowed to marry; this may have been less out of affection than out of a reluctance to offer land and power to sons-in-law. He had originally contracted a marriage for his eldest daughter Rotrude with Constantine VI of Byzantium, but when the girl was eleven years old, the engagement was annulled. He was not opposed to the daughters having unofficial relationships with men who were not their husbands, and he refused to believe stories that were told about the daughters’ unseemly behavior.
- An intense physical relationship between the spouses was demonstrated by the fact that, during her 12 years of marriage, Hildegard had 8 pregnancies (including one set of twins) and remarkably chronicles never mentioned either miscarriages or stillbirths. She accompanied Charlemagne on many of his militar campaigns: she gave birth her second child and first daughter, Adelaide, during the siege of Pavia, capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards (September 773/June 774), but she died during the return journey to France. In 778, Hildegard accompanied her husband as far as Aquitaine, where she gave birth the twins Louis and Lothair.[9] In 780/781 she traveled with Charlemagne and four of their children to Rome, where the sons Louis and Carloman (renamed Pepin after his baptism by Pope Adrian I) were appointed sub-kings of Aquitaine and Italy, respectively. This contributed to the strengthening of the alliance between the Carolingians and the Papacy.[10] Because of her frequent pregnancies, can be presumed that Hildegard accompanied her husband on further campaigns, at least temporarily.