Name Hedwig, of Role Welf's wife | Spouse Welf (m. 810 AD) Parents Isanbart | |
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Children Judith of Bavaria, Hemma, Conrad I, Count of Auxerre, Rudolph, Count of Ponthieu Grandchildren Charles the Bald, Charles the Fat Great grandchildren Louis the Stammerer, Arnulf of Carinthia Similar People Judith of Bavaria, Charles the Fat, Louis the Pious, Louis the German, Charles the Bald | ||
Hedwig (c. 778 – after 833) was a Saxon noble woman, the wife of Count Welf (father of Judith) and mother-in-law of Emperor Louis the Pious through his marriage to Judith, her daughter.
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Life
She was possibly born at Altdorf in the Frankish lands of Alamannia (present-day Germany). According to Bishop Thegan of Trier, she was a member of the Saxon high nobility, the daughter of Count Isambart. She had a sister, Adalung des Franken, half-brother Hunfrid I de Recia e de Istria, and a brother Guelph, Count of Andech.
In her later life (about 826) she appears as abbess of Chelles near Paris, however, it is uncertain if she had already become a widow by then.
Family
Hedwig married Count Welf I and together they had the following children:
Through her marriage to Welf she is the matriarch of the Dynastic Welf Family and is an ancestor of the Carolingian dynasty, the Kings of Italy, Russia, Britain, the Hagenéter rulers of Piedmont and the Bavarian Welfs.
Hedwig died on 19 April 843 in Bayern, Frankish Empire (present Germany) and was buried in Bayern Lande.