Bertha of Swabia

Berta of Alamannia (c. 907; † after January 2 966 ), as the wife of Rudolf II, Queen of Upper Burgundy, and after the union of high -and low- Burgundy from 933 Queen of Burgundy, in Switzerland usually called Bertha of Swabia. After 937 it was by marriage and Queen of the Lombards.

Bertha was the daughter of the Duke Burchard II of Swabia. After the expansive ruler of Upper Burgundy its eastern border laid at the expense Schwaben- Alamanniens of the Aare to the Reuss, but had then suffered a defeat at the Battle of Winterthur 919, Berta was probably 922 married as a gesture of reconciliation with King Rudolf II of Upper Burgundy. Their daughter Adelheid was the wife of Emperor Otto I in a second marriage.

Rudolf and Bertha were large church founders in western Switzerland. After Rudolf's death 937 Berta officiated occasionally as guardian of King Conrad of Burgundy. She married on 12 December 937 King Hugo of Italy The marriage was unhappy; after Hugo's death 947 Berta spent the rest of her life again north of the Alps, where the information is uncertain.

Berta has promoted the establishment of the Marie Payerne Abbey, which was built (see also Memorial beings ) after her death by her daughter, Empress Adelheid over the grave place of the mother for the purpose of Memoria with donations.

It is a telling and fabled identification figure in French-speaking Switzerland ( the good Queen Bertha, La reine Berthe ), also as in the creation of the canton of Vaud. With the Reformation, their image of the good ruler to that of the exemplary housewife was reinterpreted. Another epithet, Berta the Spinner, derives from the fact.

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