Hildegard (758 – 30 April 783) was the daughter of count Gerold of Vinzgouw and Emma of Alamannia, daughter of Hnabi, Duke of Alamannia. Hildegard was the second wife of Charlemagne[1], who married her about 771. They had the following children:
• Charles, (772 or 773-811), Count of Maine from 781, joint King of the Franks with Charlemagne from 800
• Adelaide (773-773 or 774-774)
• Pippin (773 or 777-810), born Carloman and later renamed at baptism, king of Italy from 781
• Rotrude (or Hruodrud) (777-810)
• Louis the Pious, king of Aquitaine from 781, emperor from 813 (sole Emperor from 814) until 840
• Lothair, twin brother of Louis, died young in 780
• Bertha (779-823?)
• Gisela (781-808?)
• Hildegarde (782-783?)
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1. ^ As described by historians such as Pierre Riché (The Carolingians, p.86.), Lewis Thorpe (Two Lives of Charlemagne, p.216) and others. Other historians list Himiltrude, described by Einhard as a concubine, as Charlemagne's first wife, and reorder his subsequent wives; accordingly Hildegard is sometimes numbered as his third wife. See Dieter Hägemann (Karl der Große. Herrscher des Abendlands, Ullstein 2003, p. 82f.), Collins (Charlemagne, p. 40.).