Ermengarde d'Auvergne

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ¹⁶⁰
Eudes II, Count of Blois and Champagne, married Ermengarde of Auvergne, daughter of Robert I Count of Auvergne, by his wife Ermengarde, daughter of William II, Marquis of Provence, by his wife Adelaide of Anjou.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 136:21

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Ermengard d'Auvergne was the daughter of Guillaume comté d'Auvergne and his wife Humberge. She married Eudes II comté de Blois, son of Eudes I comté de Blois and Berthe de Bourgogne. "The Flandria Generosa names "altera Ermengardis comitissa" as daughter of "Ermengardis comitissa Arvenensis", and mother of "Berta comitissa (de Blois)", when outlining the basis for the consanguinity between Baudouin VII Count of Flanders and [Hawise] de Bretagne, which provided the grounds for the couple's separation [Flandria Generosa 25, MGH SS IX, p. 323]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines which names "comitissam Turonensem Ermengardem" as wife of "Odonem Campaniensem comitem" when recording in 1005 their joint restoration of "Turonis maioris monasterii" [Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1005, MGH SS XXIII, p. 778]. The necrology of Saint-Père-en-Vallée records the death "IV Id Mar" of "Ermengardis comitissa" [Obituaires de Sens Tome II, Abbaye de Saint-Père-enVallée, p. 185]. The necrology of Pontlevoy records the death "V Id Mar" of "Ermengardis comitissa" [Obituaires de Sens Tome II, Abbaye de Pontlevoy, p. 209]."

Ermengarde married Eudes II Comte de Blois, son of Eudes I Comte de Blois and Bertha de Bourgogne et Arles ^160,180.^,1002 (Eudes II Comte de Blois was born about 990 in Penthievre, died on 15 Nov 1037 in Champagne, France ¹⁰⁰² and was buried in 1037 in Abbaye de Saint-Martin, Marmoutier ¹⁰⁰².)