Hedwig of Bavaria

She was possibly born at Altdorf in the Frankish lands of Alamannia (present-day Germany). According to Bishop Thegan of Trier, she was a member of the Saxon high nobility, the daughter of Count Isambart. She had a sister, Adalung des Franken, half-brother Hunfrid I de Recia e de Istria, and a brother Guelph, Count of Andech.

In her later life (about 826) she appears as abbess of Chelles near Paris,[1] however, it is uncertain if she had already become a widow by then.

Hedwig married Count Welf I and together they had the following children:

• Judith of Bavaria (c. 797–843); married Louis the Pious, who was King of the Franks and co-emperor of the Holy Roman Empire with his father, Charlemagne.
• Conrad I, Count of Auxerre c. 800–864;[2] ancestor of the Welf kings of Burgundy.
• Rudolph, Count of Ponthieu (c. 802–866);[3]
• Hemma (c. 803–876);; married Louis the German, King of East Francia and son of Louis the Pious.
• Mathilda d'Andech von Altdorf

Through her marriage to Welf, she is the matriarch of the dynastic Welf Family[4] and is an ancestor of the Carolingian dynasty, the Kings of Italy, Russia, Britain and the Bavarian Welfs.

Hedwig died on 19 April 843 in Bayern, Frankish Empire (present Germany) and was buried in Bayern Lande.

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  Husband Welf I
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  Tomb effigy of daughter Queen Hemma.
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  Daughter, Judith of Bavaria
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  Son-in-law Louis on a denarius from Sens, c.818

• Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria