Waldrada

  General Notes:

-Weis' "Ancestral Roots . . ." (145:16).

-Richard Borthwick <rgbor@CYLLENE.UWA.EDU.AU> posted to soc.genealogy.medieval on14 Nov 1996
-Subject: Re: Boso again
"The family of Waldrada the concubine of king Lothar II (his wife was Teutberga) is not known, though there has been speculation. Two family groups touted as candidates are the "Etichonids" and "Welfs". There may well be others.
Lothar II's wife was the daughter of a count Boso and was sister of another Boso and the famous abbot Hugobert and sister-in-law to count Bivin. A rather nasty row broke out in the Court and the Church when Lothar II tried to repudiate Teutberga (by whom he had no children) and marry Waldrada so that his children by her could be legitimated and become his heirs in Lotharingia. Lothar II's bishops agreed with the move but the Pope didn't." ¹⁹³

Waldrada married Lothaire Roi de Lorraine, son of Lothaire I Carolingien Holy Roman Emperor and Emgarde de Tours. (Lothaire Roi de Lorraine was born in 827, died on 8 Aug 869 in Piacenza ¹⁰⁰¹ and was buried in Convent of San Antonio near Piacenza ¹⁰⁰¹.)