Anna of Provence

Anna of Provence (died after May 930) was the daughter of Louis III and his wife Anna of Constantinople, who married King Berengar I of Italy, hence she became the Queen of Italy and Holy Roman Empress.

Biography

Anna married Berengar I of Italy in December 915.[1] It has been suggested, largely for onomastic reasons, that Anna was a daughter of Louis III and his wife Anna, the possible daughter of Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor.[2] In that case, she would have been betrothed to Berengar while still a child and only become his consors and imperatrix in 923.[2] Her marriage was an attempt by Louis to advance his children while he himself was being marginalised and by Berengar to legitimise his rule by relating himself by marriage to the house of Lothair I which had ruled Italy by hereditary right since 817.

When Berengar died on April 7, 924, assassinated in Verona by one of his own men, possibly at the instigation of Rudolf II of Burgundy, he left no children, except Bertha, who was not Anna's daughter. Hence, the marriage between Berengar and Anna had no offspring.

Anna then died after May 930.

References
Notes
  1. Rosenwein 1996, p. 258.
  2. Previté-Orthon 1914, p. 336.
Bibliography
  • Previté-Orthon, Charles (1914). Charles Constantine of Vienne. Vol. 29. English Historical Review.
  • Rosenwein, Barbara H. (1996). The Family Politics of Berengar I, King of Italy (888–924). Vol. 71. Speculum. pp. 247–289.
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