Hedwig of Formbach
{{infobox nobility
| name = Hedwig of Formbach
| father = Frederick of Formbach
| mother = Gertrude of Haldensleben
| spouse = {{plainlist|
}}
| issue = {{plainlist|
- Ida
- Lothair II
- Simon
- Gertrude
}}
| birth_date = {{c.}} {{Birth year|1058}}
| death_date = c. {{Death year and age|1090|1058}}
}}
Hedwig of Formbach ({{c.}} 1058 – c. 1090) was the daughter of Frederick, count of Formbach and of Gertrude of Haldensleben,{{sfn|Silvas|1999|p=279}} and heiress to Süpplingenburg Castle.{{sfn|Biegel|1996|p=14-15}} She was the mother of Emperor Lothair II.
Marriages
Hedwig's first husband was Gebhard of Supplinburg.{{sfn|Silvas|1999|p=279}} According to the Sächsische Weltchronik, Gebhard had to overcome the resistance of his rivals, the counts of Goseck, relatives of Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen, who tried to have the marriage annulled. After Gebhard's death in June 1075 at the Battle of Langensalza, Hedwig married Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine (as his first wife).{{sfn|Galbert of Bruges|2013|p=xii}}
Children
With Gebhard, Hedwig had two children:
- Lothair,{{sfn|Borchardt|2021|p=32}} later Holy Roman Emperor
- Ida (d.1138), who married Sighard IX (d. 1104), count of Tengling, Schala and Burghausen{{sfn|Silvas|1999|p=279}}
With Theoderic, Hedwig had:
- Simon (1076 – 1138), who succeeded Theoderic as Duke of Lorraine, and was married to Adelaide of Leuven (d. 1158), daughter of his stepmother Gertrude and Henry III, Count of Leuven.
- Gertrude (who later changed her name to Petronilla) (died 1144), who married Floris II of Holland
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |first=G. |last=Biegel |title=Heinrich der Löwe. Kaiserenkel - Kaiserfreund - Kaiserfeind |publisher=Braunschweig |year=1996 }}
- {{cite book |editor-first1=Benjamin Z. |editor-last1=Kedar |editor-first2=Jonathan |editor-last2=Phillips |editor-first3=Iris |editor-last3=Shagrir |editor-first4=Nikolaos G. |editor-last4=Chrissis |chapter=Early Hospitallers in Latin Europe, 1122 and 1113/35 |title=Crusades |volume=19 |first=Karl |last=Borchardt |publisher=Routledge |year=2021 }}
- {{cite book |title=The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders |last=Galbert of Bruges |translator-first=Jeff |author-link=Galbert of Bruges |translator-last=Rider |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2013}}
- {{cite book |title=Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources |editor-first=Anna |editor-last=Silvas |publisher=The Pennsylvania State University Press |year=1999 }}
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Category:11th-century German women
Category:11th-century German nobility
Category:House of Süpplinburger
Category:Duchesses of Lorraine
Category:Mothers of Holy Roman Emperors
Category:Mothers of Italian monarchs