White Marriage
07/09/1002 AD married
It is said that she had long wanted to be a nun, and that her marriage to Henry II was a spiritual one (also called a "white marriage"); that is, they married for companionship alone, and by mutual agreement did not consummate their relationship. It has been claimed that Cunigunde made a vow of virginity with Henry's consent prior to their marriage.
The truth of this is debatable; while the couple were both certainly childless, it is supposed by some authors that later hagiographers mistakenly construed the fact to imply a virginal marriage. Others, however, accept that the marriage was purely platonic.
During their marriage, her husband, Henry II, was crowned as King of Germany ("Rex Romanorum") by Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz.
After her husband was crowned King of Germany, she was crowned as his Queen (consort) of Germany on 10 August 1002 in Paderborn, in present-day Germany, also by Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz. She was not crowned together with Henry; the coronation had to be done in retrospect.
It is the first known crowning of a German queen in East Francia.
Later, when her husband was crowned as King of Italy ("Rex Italiae") in 1004 in Pavia, Italy, but no evidence has been given of her being crowned as his queen consort of Italy.
Subjects Who or What married?
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Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (Saint Henry the Exuberant) Holy Roman Emperor 1014 ...
Objects To Whom or What was married?
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Cunigunde of Luxembourg (Cunegundes, Cunegunda, Cunegonda, Cunegundis, Kinigundis) Empress of the Holy Roma...
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