Waldrada of Lotharingia (Person)
Waldrada of Lotharingia
835 AD - 869 AD
Mistress, and later the wife, of Lothair II of Lotharingia
King Lothar stuck by Waldrada so doggedly that some observers concluded that she was practicing witchcraft, capable of inflaming him to lust merely by showing him enchanted clothing.
Waldrada's family origin is uncertain. Prolific 19th-century French writer Baron Ernouf suggested that Waldrada was of noble Gallo-Roman family, sister of Thietgaud, the bishop of Trier, and niece of Ghunter, the archbishop of Cologne. However, these suggestions are not supported by any evidence.
More recent studies have instead suggested she was of relatively undistinguished social origins, though still from an aristocratic milieu.
The Vita Sancti Deicoli states that Waldrada was related to Eberhard II, Count of Nordgau (included Strasbourg) family of Etichonids, though this is a late 10th-century source and so may not be entirely reliable on this question.
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862 AD - Issue
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