Luitberga, duchess of Bavaria

Liutperga (Liutpirc) (fl 750 - fl. 793) was a Duchess of Bavaria by marriage to Tassilo III, the last Agilolfing Duke of Bavaria. She was the daughter of Desiderius, King of the Lombards, and Ansa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liutperga

It has been argued that Liutperga resented the Frankish king Charlemagne.[1] This argument is based on both the supposed repudiation of his marriage to Liutperga's sister Desiderata and his subsequent destruction of the Kingdom of Lombardy and imprisonment of her parents.

Liutperga played an apparently major role in her husband's opposition to Charlemagne. Frankish annals references to Liutperga suggest this. The Annales Mettense Priores refer to her as Tassilo's "wicked wife" and the Revised Royal Frankish Annals refer to the Liutperga's "urging" of her husband to push the Avars into conflict with Charlemagne.[2]

Family

Spouse Tassilo III, Duke of Bavaria

Issue four sons

1. Theodo
2. Cotani
3. Hrodrud
4. Theodebert

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From Cawley's Medlands

3. LIUTBERGA [Liutpirc] (-after 788). Einhard names "Liutberga…filia Desiderii regis Langobardorum" as the wife of "Tassilonem ducem"[598]. The wife of "Tassilonis ducis" is called "filia Desiderii regis" by Einhard[599]. Named as the wife of Duke Tassilo in the Royal Frankish Annals, which describe her as "his rancorous wife … a woman hateful to God". She and her daughters became nuns when her husband was deprived of his dukedom in 788[600]. m TASSILO Duke of Bavaria, son of ODILO King of Bavaria & his wife Chiltrudis [Carolingian] (-after 794).

Origins

Wikipedia retrieved 16 April 2023

Desiderius married Ansa (or Ansia) and, as well as a son, had four daughters:

1. Anselperga (or Anselberga), abbess of San Salvatore monastery of Brescia
2. Adelperga (or Adelberga), married Arechis II of Benevento
3. Liutperga (also Liutpirc or Liutberga), married Tassilo III of Bavaria
4. Desiderata married Charlemagne in 770 and was repudiated (a medieval form of divorce) in 771.
5. Adelchis (or Adalgis), patrician in Constantinople

Gerberga is not proved as a daughter.