Rozala of Italy
Rozala - Susanna of Italy, also of Ivrea (c. 950-960; † January 26, 1003 ) was by marriage to Arnulf II of Flanders, Countess of Flanders and took over after her husband's death the regency for her infant son Baldwin still IV Soon after, she became the wife of the future king of France Robert II, but they violated even before his accession to the throne.
Life
Rozala came as one of seven children of the Italian king Berengar II and his wife Willa to the world and was a granddaughter Bosos, the Margrave of Tuscany. After her father Otto had finally found the Great in the battle for his kingdom 964, he was sent by him with his family to Bamberg. There Rozala spent her youth in a guarded from Otto's vassals city tower. According to the Chronicle of the World Reginos Prüm it grew, however, into the care of the Empress Adelheid of Burgundy.
Otto Kaiser arranged for her a marriage with the Count of Flanders Arnulf II, which did not take place before 968. From this more than 20 years of marriage two children were born:
- Mathilde († 995 at the latest )
- Baldwin IV (* 980, † May 30, 1035 ), Count of Flanders
When her husband probably 987-988 death of her son was still a minor, so she took over as his guardian government business in the county. Since succession disputes anbahnten in Flanders to Rozala - Susanna decided not long after she became a widow, a subsequent marriage. To get the power for the ruling dynasty in Flanders, she sought assistance from the French king Hugh Capet and married before April 1 988, his son Robert, who should ascend the throne of France later as Robert II. The marriage was also the site of the Capetian a politically rewarding connection, because in this way Flanders was deprived not only of the Carolingian influence, but also the territory of Charles of Lower Lorraine, a supporter of the Carolingians, surrounded and isolated. In some publications, the information is to be found, Rozala had renamed the occasion of their second wedding in Susanna, surviving documents from before, however, testify of it, that she was also previously called by that name.
The bride was at the time of the wedding at least twelve years older than the groom. The marriage was not happy with what the chronicler Richer of Reims in his Historiae it attributed that Rozala - Susanna was so much older than her husband. According to Robert Richer information repudiated his wife when he was 19 years old. The reason led to the heir to the throne that he had borne no children his wife. If the cited age be correct, the repudiation would be to implement 990, but other literature they dated in the years 991 and 992 Following her repudiation Robert refused his wife's enjoyment of their Wittums Montreuil- sur -Mer, which by some publications is incorrectly referred to as her dowry. Although Rozala tried initially to enforce their rights, was finally defeated in battle around the port city but. They then went to the court of her son from first marriage to Flanders back and is said to have assisted him in his government. She died in 1003 in Flanders and was buried beside her first husband in the monastery church of St. Peter's Abbey in Ghent on the Blandinberg. Her grave is nowadays no longer receive, because it was in 1578 in the wake of the Reformation iconoclasm - as well as the tombs of all the other buried in the church members of the Flemish noble family - destroyed.