Richaut of Metz

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Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Richilde was the daughter comté Bouvin and his wife _____ d'Arles. "The Annales Bertiniani record the marriage "869 VII Id Oct" of "sororem…Bosonis…Richildem" and King Charles II [Annales Bertiniani III 869]. She was crowned empress at Tortona in Lombardy by Pope John VIII in 877. "Richildis quondam regina" donated property, among which "in pago Gerbercinse in Langeii villa", to Gorze Abbey by charter dated 910 [D'Herbomez, A. (ed.) (1898) Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Gorze, Mettensia II (Paris), 87, p. 157]. The necrology of Reims Saint-Rémi records the death "III Kal Feb" of "Richildis" [ 'Obits mémorables tirés de nécrologes luxembourgeois, rémois et messins', Revue Mabillon VI (1910-1911), p. 272]."

Richaut married Charles II "le Chauve" Carolingien King of the West Franks, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Louis I "the Pious" Carolingien Holy Roman Emperor and Judith of Bavaria. (Charles II "le Chauve" Carolingien King of the West Franks, Holy Roman Emperor was born on 13 Jun 823 in Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia,⁵²⁸ died on 6 Oct 877 in Pass of Mt. Cenis, The Alps, Modena, Italy ^160,528 and was buried in St. Denis Abbey, St. Denis, Paris, Seine, France.)