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Source: Judith of Bavaria (died 843), Wikipedia

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Judith of Bavaria (797– 19 April 843) was the Carolingian empress as the second wife of Louis the Pious. She had two children with Louis, Gisela and Charles the Bald. She was buried in 843 in Tours. Judith was the daughter of Count Welf of Bavaria and Saxon noblewoman Hedwig. Judith was probably born around 797. Her marriage to the 41-year-old King Louis occurred in 819, when she was probably around 22 years old. After the death on 3 October 818 of Louis' first wife Queen Ermengard, mother of his sons Louis the German, Peppin and Lothar, Louis was urged by his counselors to remarry. Shortly after Christmas in 819 he married Judith in Aachen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). Prior to Easter Week in 830 (17–24 April) Pippin, with Lothar's consent, and witha large proportion of the people "took away from the Emperor his royal power, and also his wife". Judith was veiled ("the female equivalent of tonsuring rival claimants to the throne") and sent to the convent of St Radegund at Poitiers in the same year. In 831, around 1 February Judith stood trial at the assembly arranged by the Lord Emperor. For Judith the coup resulted in her exile in Italy at the civitas of Tortona. Louis died in 840 at his palace in Ingelheim, leaving Judith a widow. Her health began to fail in 842, and she died on 19 April 843 in Tours, outliving her husband by three years, after more than a year of ill health, including coughing and dizziness. It is believed that she was around 46 years of age when she died, her husband had been closer to 62. She was buried at the Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours.
Carolingian empress (819–840) & Queen of the Franks (819–840)