Richildis (Bosonid) Arles (abt. 845 - abt. 910)

Born about 0845 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France

Ancestors

Wife of Charles (Carolingian) of France — married 22 Jan 0870 in Aix-la-Chapelle

Descendants

Died about 30 Jan 0910 at about age 65 in Chalons sur Saone, Saone et Loire, Bourgogne, France

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Biography

Richild (d. 30 Jan - 910 or later).[1]

alias: Richilde of the Ardennes, or Richilde of Provence (c. 845-2 June 910).^[1]

Titles

• By marriage: Queen of the West Franks, then Empress of the Franks.^[2][3]

Parents

• Father: Buvinus "Buvin", count (d. 863/9).[2]

• Mother: UNKNOWN of Arles.[3]

Marriage

Richilde, was the second wife of Charles the Bald, King and Emperor of the Franks.^[1]

m. (22 Oct 870 Aix-la-Chapelle) Charles II "le Chauve", King of the West Franks (13 Jun 823 - 06 Oct 877; p. Louis I "le Pieux" and Judith Welf). Issue: 5.[4]

• Rothildis (871 -22 Mar 929).

m. (890) Rotger "Roger", Comte de Maine (d. ante 01 Nov 911; p. unknown; uncle: Hugh, Comte de Bourges)

• Drogo

• Pepin

• (son) ____ (d. infant)

• Charles (10 Oct 876 - 877)

About

Originally the concubine of Charles the Bald, she married him in 870 after the death of his first wife, Ermentrude of Orléans. She bore him five children, but only the eldest daughter, Rothilde (c. 871-c. 928), who married first Hugues of Bourges and secondly Roger of Maine, survived to adulthood. Boso was a Frankish noblemen, related to the Carolingian dynasty, and rose to be King of Provence.^[4][5]

Whenever Charles went to war, Richilde managed the realm, and acted as head of state after the death of Charles in 877.^[6]

She planned to place her brother Boso, Duke of Burgundy, on the throne, after Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans) died shortly after his father while his children were too young to rule on their own. However, she was accused of incest with her brother and the lords of the kingdom refused to subject themselves to her authority. She then helped Boso to become King of Provence.^[7]

She attempted to assume a position of authority upon the death of Louis III of France in 882, and of Carloman of France in 884; however, the empire was agitated and under threat by the Normans, and the grandees of the realm forced her to withdraw to Provence, where she died on 2 June 910.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Settipani, C. and Kerrebrouck, P. van (1993) La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987, 1ère partie, Mérovingiens, Carolingiens et Robertiens (Villeneuve d'Ascq), p. 51.
2. ↑ Settipani (1993), p. 366.
3. ↑ Nachkommen nach Brigitte Kasten, Kaiserinnen in karolingischer Zeit, S. 24..
4. ↑ Provence.
5. ↑ Levillain, L. 'Les Nibelungen historiques et leurs alliances de famille', Annales du Midi 49 (1937), pp. 337-408, 357 footnote 2, quoted in Settipani (1993), p. 350, footnote 1080.
6. ↑ Franks, Merovingians.
7. ↑ Levillain, L. 'Les Nibelungen historiques et leurs alliances de famille', Annales du Midi 49 (1937), pp. 337-408, 357 Settipani (1993), p. 350.
8. ↑ Wikipedia.org.

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