Cunigunda of France

Cunegonde (* 888/895; † after 923 ) was a daughter Ermentruds and a granddaughter of King Louis the Stammerer. Her father is not known, Hlawitschka suspected him in Dux Reginar I..

It should be Kunigunde life little is known, their meaning is mainly from a originating from the 11th century Tabula Genealogica, the Carolingians, by which it is identified as grandmother of the Empress Cunegonde of Luxembourg, which in turn the origin of the Empress of the Carolingians occupied.

Cunegonde married 907/909 in his first marriage the later Palatine Wigerich, who was 919 died. At that time she was already married to the Count Richwin of Verdun ( the marriage took place 916-919 ), which was 923 killed.

Cunegonde had at least six children:

In addition to these six children Cunegonde had another son, Siegfried, who is first mentioned in the year 950. It assumes, however, that Siegfried is identical to Sigebert, and that there is a copyist at Sigeberts the only occurrence.

In research, a discussion takes place about who are the fathers of the children Kunigunde. This is decidedly positive for Adalbero, is attested as his father Wigerich, as well as for Gozelin, the Adalbero full brother ( germanus ) was. There is a note that they were the brothers Gozelins, but also a proof that Gozelin had several brothers of the mother ( Frates plures ex matre ), whose father is therefore not Wigerich to Friedrich, Giselbert and Sigebert / Siegfried. For this coming from the known children Kunigunde only Friedrich, Giselbert and Sigebert / Siegfried in question, which, in turn, at least two ( plures ), of course the two younger, so Giselbert and Sigebert / Siegfried ( Wolf: "Even half-brothers are referred to as brothers ").

Since Kunigunde marriage is viewed with Richwin of Verdun as childless, the legitimacy of Siegfried on the other hand is out of the question due to the Tabula Genealogica, a third marriage Kunigunde has been repeatedly suspected. René Klein wrote a work in which he tried to prove that Kunigunde third husband Giselbert, later Duke of Lorraine, was in 1998. His thesis is highly controversial, especially among historians, see the Kunigunde the daughter Reginars I.: I. Since Reginar from another marriage is also the father Giselberts, Giselbert and Cunegonde would thus be half-siblings, what a marriage course, excludes.