Immilla of Turin

Overview

Title social-status

Duchess of Swabia, Countess of Meissen

Date of Death

1078

Biography

(See also Genealogical Table(s): 4, 4.2.)
Immilla/Immulla, also known as E/Irmengarde of Turin was the daughter of Ulric-Manfred II, marques of Turin, and Countess Bertha, daughter of Otbert II. She is a sister of Countesses Adelaide and Bertha. She was married first to Otto of Schweinfurt, duke of Swabia, who died in 1057, and then to Ekbert I of Brunswick, marquess/margrave of Meissen, who died in 1068. According to Lampert of Hersfeld, Ekbert was about to repudiate her in order to marry someone else when he died (entry for 1068). She remained at the German court for some years but was back in Piedmont by 1074, disposing of her share of family lands. She became a nun and died in 1078, her death reported in the necrology of St .Andrew (S. Andrea) of Turin.1

Letters from Immilla of Turin

A letter to Monastery of Caramagna (1074, February 24)
A letter to Public (1077, December 3)