Emma of Altdorf , also known as Hemma ( c. 803 – 31 January 876), a member of the Elder House of Welf , was Queen consort of East Francia by marriage to King Louis the German , from 843 until her death.
20-546: Queen Emma may refer to: Hemma ( c. 803 –876), queen of East Francia Emma of France ( c. 894 –934), queen of West Francia Emma of Italy ( c. 948 –after 987), queen of West Francia Emma of Normandy ( c. 988 –1052), queen of England, Denmark and Norway Queen Emma (Hawaii) (1836–1885), queen of Hawaii Emma Forsayth (1850–1913), businesswoman known as "Queen Emma of New Guinea" Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1858–1934), queen of
40-569: A pride which displeased the people of Italy. She is also said to have inordinately favoured her son Carloman , designated heir of his father in Bavaria, which led to a revolt by his brothers. Hemma suffered a stroke in 874 and subsequently became paralyzed and speechless; King Louis visited her the last time in 875. She died on 31 January 876, a few months before her husband, and was buried in St. Emmeram's Abbey , Regensburg. Her tomb, erected around 1300,
60-572: Is almost entirely dependent. Moreover, there are strong hints that the original text of the annals underwent at least minor changes under the latter's supervision. The annals' account is mostly first-hand and includes documents such as papal letters and excerpts from conciliar acts . The text is characterized by the struggles between the Carolingians, their relations to the Holy Roman Church – " sancta romana ecclesia " – and as well
80-690: Is an alternative interpretation, that Chacanus is a Latin transcription of the Scandinavian proper name Håkan since in mainstream scholarship the Rus' people , who lived in northern Russia, had their ancestral homeland in Sweden. Garipzanov holds to the latter and finds that the form 'chacanus' is a unique occurrence in Frankish sources; variants hereof, in the Carolingian sources, that do signify
100-459: Is considered a masterpiece of medieval sculpture. By Louis, she had eight children: Her sons became Kings; three of her daughters became nuns. Annales Bertiniani Annales Bertiniani ( Annals of Saint Bertin ) are late Carolingian , Frankish annals that were found in the Abbey of Saint Bertin , Saint-Omer , France, after which they are named. Their account is taken to cover
120-721: The Carolingian Empire eventually was divided according to the Treaty of Verdun in 843. The Kingdom of Bavaria was merged with Louis the German's Kingdom of East Francia (the predecessor of the Kingdom of Germany ), and his wife Hemma became the first East Frankish queen. Hemma is rarely mentioned in contemporary sources; she does not seem to have had much influence on her husband's rule. The Annales Bertiniani written by Archbishop Hincmar of Reims however reproach her for
140-454: The Sueones : " eos gentis esse Sueonum ". He decided to keep them by him until it could be ascertained for sure whether they had come in earnest purpose or not, and they are not mentioned again in the annals. This incident is mentioned under the year 839. A still ongoing polemic involves the phrase " rex illorum Chacanus " or " rex illorum Chaganos " ( Rau 1980 , p. 44). The phrase belongs to
160-597: The German , the youngest son of Emperor Louis the Pious from his first marriage with Ermengarde of Hesbaye , and stepson of Hemma's sister Judith. The wedding ceremony possibly took place in Regensburg , where Louis the German resided as King of Bavaria subordinate to his father. In 833, Hemma received Obermünster Abbey in Regensburg from her husband. Emperor Louis died in 840. After severe innerdynastic struggles,
180-625: The Netherlands Ships and places [ edit ] HMS Queen Emma , a Royal Navy troop ship, formerly MS Koningin Emma Queen Emma Bridge , across St. Anna Bay in Curaçao Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Queen Emma . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
200-698: The West Frankish sphere of Charles the Bald . The Annales Fuldenses are usually read as an East Frankish counterpart to their narrative. It has been suggested that the annals were first written by scribes in the court of Louis the Pious . There is no doubt that they were later continued as an independent narrative, eventually becoming somewhat emancipated from the Palace since the early 840s, first by Prudentius of Troyes (†861) and thereafter Hincmar of Reims (until 882), on whose lost manuscript their tradition
220-597: The annals – exaggerated their accounts of the raids because they were usually the invaders' primary targets and frequently had to foot the bill when kings agreed to pay the Vikings off, as Charles the Fat did at the Siege of Paris in 885-6. Most scholars now believe the Vikings posed little more than a persistent, niggling military threat to the Carolingian regime. The annals are notable, among other things, for containing one of
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#1732782584783240-400: The earliest written references to Rus' . According to the annals, a group of followers to the emissaries from Constantinople was presented through a letter handed over to the emperor by the emissaries. The letter stated that they called themselves Rhos – " qi se, id est gentem suam, Rhos vocari dicebant " – and had journeyed to Constantinople; but now they were fearful to return home, because
260-575: The foreign form of sovereignty are caganus , chagan , kagan and also chaganum . Scholars have also sought to establish a connection between the Rus'-Byzantine embassy to Louis the Pious and contemporary events in the Eastern Empire, as recorded in the Life of St. George of Amastris , one of the earliest Greek sources on the Rus' . The narrative came to an end in 882 when an elderly, frail Hincmar
280-505: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Queen_Emma&oldid=1193514102 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Title and name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hemma Her father was Welf I (d. 825), Count of Altorf in Alamannia ; her mother
300-608: The period 830-82, thus continuing the Royal Frankish Annals (741–829), from which, however, it has circulated independently in only one manuscript. They are available in the Monumenta Germaniæ Historica ( Waitz 1883 ) and in a later French edition taking into account a newly discovered manuscript ( Grat 1964 ). The Annals of St. Bertin are one of the principal sources of ninth-century Francia , and are particularly well-informed on events in
320-596: The raids from neighbouring regions. Amongst these last are the practically annual reports of raids carried out by various warrior -bands from Scandinavia – who are now popularly known as Vikings . During the ninth century, these warrior -bands regularly laid waste to the lands of the Frisians , sailed up rivers like the Seine , Loire , and Rhine , where they caused great devastation in the country, and plundered Carolingian monasteries and episcopal cities. After 841, only in
340-552: The roads they had travelled were not safe. They had therefore set out with the Byzantine embassy hoping to obtain the Franks' assent for travelling via Germany. At Ingelheim royal residence, near Mainz , they were queried by Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious , as he suspected they might be on reconnaissance ( Latin : exploratores ), and they could assure him in the rationale for their northern destination, as they belonged to
360-432: The written presentation to the emperor, and in context names the king of the Rus'; king Chacanus or Chaganos. Garipzanov (2006) has recently made observations on the likelihood that chacanus is the correct, i.e. original term. The traditional interpretation is that 'rex illorum Chacanus' is meant to be understood as khagan , not actually a person's name, but instead an entirely foreign kind of sovereignty . However, there
380-732: The years 874 and 875 are there no references to Viking activity. There is much to read in the annals, and the narrative sheds also some light on the many incidents that form the scenario in which Scandinavians came to more formal, i.e. diplomatic and ecclesiastic, relations with their southern neighbours – for example the Normans ' fealty to King Charles III of West Francia in 911. The concentration on ecclesiastic centres, which presumably housed vast amounts of movable wealth, has led some historians to believe that contemporary source writers, i.e. clergymen – including Prudentius and Hincmar, which are believed to have had at least editorial influence on
400-630: Was Hedwig (Heilwig; c. 775 – after 833), a daughter of the Saxon count Isambart . Emma's elder sister was Judith , who in February 819 married the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious , and thereby became Queen consort of the Franks and Holy Roman Empress . The marriage marked a crucial step forward in the rise of the Welf dynasty. In 827, probably at the instigation of Judith, Hemma married Louis
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