#Hildegard of vinzgau

[wingsinthedust324]

I designed the image of Hildegarde.🐑She is the wife of Charlemagne and his most beloved one.🐑🐑

Collaboration with a Chinese painter.

[venicepearl]

Hildegard (c. 754 – 30 April 783), was a Frankish queen consort who was the second wife of Charlemagne and mother of Louis the Pious. Little is known about her life because like all other women related to Charlemagne, she became notable only from a political background with records on her parentage, wedding, death and role as a mother.

[cesareeborgia]

↳ the wives of charlemagne (requested by anonymous)

[historicwomendaily]

the daughters of charlemagne

[aethelfleds]

Victims of the Childbed - Hildegard of the Vinzgau (or of Swabia), Queen of the Franks

     Of the four wives and six concubines Charlemagne is known to have had relationships with, Hildegard was perhaps his best beloved. Their marriage was, of course, solely politically motivated. Prior to marrying Hildegard, Charlemagne was caught up in a dangerous rivalry with his younger brother Carloman. Their father Pepin the Short, King of the Franks had bequeathed his kingdom to both of his sons, with the lands divided between them. A conflict had arisen when it became apparent that both sons believed themselves to be the sole heir to the entirety of their father’s territory.

     Charlemagne, who would have at the time been known by his first name of Charles, took Hildegard as his consort sometime in 771. He had just annulled his first marriage to a Lombardian princess and intended this match to undermine his brother’s power. Hildegard was from a powerful Germanic family. Her father Gerold was Count of Kraichgau and Anglachgau and her mother Emma was a daughter of the Duke of Alemannia. She was raised in the area that is today Baden-Württemberg. Hildegard’s family had holdings in Carloman’s kingdom, which were highly prized by Charlemagne. Carloman’s sudden death may have coincided with Hildegard’s marriage to Charlemagne.

     Hildegard was around seventeen years old when she married Charlemagne and became Queen of the Franks. It is possible that she was more involved in her husband’s affairs and had more influence than his other wives, as she is the only consort known to have used her position to aid her relatives. Due to her frequent pregnancies, it is assumed that Hildegard accompanied Charlemagne on his extensive military campaigns. As queen, Hildegard was a gracious benefactress of religious establishments. Most notably she was a friend  and host to Saint Leoba, chief patron of the Monastery of Kempton, and jointly commissioned religious works with her husband, such as the Godescalc Gospels. In all, Hildegard appears to have been an involved and popular queen during her twelve years as consort to Charlemagne.

     Queen Hildegard bore nine children between 772 and 783, including a set of twins. Six of her children survived infancy: Charles the Younger, Carloman (re-baptized Pepin), Rotrude, Louis the Pious, Bertha, and Gisela. Though it is clear she and her husband had an active physical relationship, in an era with no reliable contraception, near constant pregnancy was the unavoidable outcome of a marriage like Hildegard’s. Her ninth child, a short-lived daughter sometimes also called Hildegard, was born in 783. The contemporary scribe Paul the Deacon records that Hildegard died as a result of this birth; she was about twenty-nine years old. Charlemagne’s reaction to his wife’s death is unrecorded, but he did order candles to be burnt by her grave and daily prayers to be said for Hildegard’s soul.

Hildegard has been titled “The Mother of Kings and Emperors,” as three of her sons were crowned kings and Louis the Pious later went on to become Holy Roman Emperor after his father.

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Hildegard of the Vinzgau, Queen of the Franks (c.754 - 30 April 783)

[blackcur-rants]

Okay fun fact about this show: Pippin was a real guy. He was the son of the French/German King/Emperor Charlemagne and a woman named Himiltrude. And he did try to overthrow his father after being disinherited in favour of the future Louis I. Although the Fastrada portrayed in the show is kind of a composite between the actual Fastrada of real life and Hildegarde of Vinzgau. Also, Charlemagne’s mother Berthe Broadfoot (the character who sang “No Time at All” in the show) may or may not have been a real life inspiration for Mother Goose.

And yes, same guy wrote the music and lyrics for both this and “Wicked”.

Also, do you see what I mean when I say that “Extraordinary”, “Corner of the Sky”, “No Time at All”, and “Magic to do” remind me of Luz, Amity, Eda, and the Collector respectively?

@disregardcanon

pippin pippin the musical has never thought through a decision in his life. he said IMPULSE RULES! and then. let it