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Desiderata (fl. 771) was a queen consort of the Franks. She was one of four daughters of Desiderius , King of the Lombards , and his wife Ansa, Queen of the Lombards . Desiderata was married to Charlemagne in 770 in effort to create a bond between Francia and the Kingdom of the Lombards .
as co-Queen consort the Lombards: 30 April 783 Fastrada de Franconie: Raoul III de Franconie et d'Aéda de Bavière: 765 784 as sole-Queen consort of the Franks and co-Queen consort the Lombards: 10 October 794 Luitgard de Sundgau: Luitfrid II, Count of Sundgau: 776 794 as sole-Queen consort of the Franks and co-Queen consort the Lombards: 4 ...
Gerberga (8th century) was the wife of Carloman I, King of the Franks, and sister-in-law of Charlemagne. Her flight to the Lombard kingdom of Desiderius following Carloman's death precipitated the last Franco-Lombard war, and the end of the independent kingdom of the Lombards in 774. [1] Very little is known of Gerberga.
San Salvatore, Brescia, internal. Ansa (died after 774) was a noblewoman who became the Queen of the Lombards in 756 and reigned until their fall to the Franks in 774 AD. She, like other Medieval Queens at the time, played a significant role in the stability and preservation of the later Lombard Kingdom, particularly through her religious contributions, donations, and political relationships ...
After 568, the Lombard kings sometimes styled themselves Kings of Italy (rex totius Italiae), making their wives queens consort of Italy. After 774, they were not Lombards, but Franks. There was never a female Lombardic monarch due to the Salic law. After Queen Rosamund all the Lombard queens were also Queens of Italy.
Charles had produced an alliance with the Lombards by marrying one of Desiderius' daughters, Desiderata; within a year, however, he had changed his mind about the marriage and alliance, and divorced his wife, sending her back to her father. This was taken as an insult by the Lombards.
Set during the extreme end of the Lombard kingdom, the Manzonian tragedy Adelchi tells the story of the last king of the Lombards, Desiderius and his children Ermengarde (whose real name was Desiderata) and Adalgis: the first the divorced wife of Charlemagne, and the second the last defender of the Lombard kingdom against the Frankish invasion ...
Desiderata of the Lombards; F. Fastrada; H. Hildegard (queen) L. Luitgard (Frankish queen) This page was last edited on 18 September 2023, at 09:37 (UTC). ...