Ermengarde of Tours


Ermengarde of Tours was the daughter of Hugh of Tours, a member of the Etichonen family. In October 821 in Thionville, she married the Carolingian Emperor Lothair I of the Franks.
In 849, two years before her death, she made a donation to the abbey Erstein in the Elsass, in which she is buried.
Lothair and Ermengarde had eight children:
"Her voice is as pure as gold and clear as the note of zither. Her skin is as roses mixed in snow. Her blonde hair circles her head like a chrysolith. Her eyes are lively, her white neck like milk, lillies, ivory. Her graceful hands are like the snow."