[140] [The form “Louis” is very commonly met with, but we prefer the German.]
[141] [i.e. Emperor Ludwig II; Louis le Débonnaire being the emperor Ludwig I.]
[142] Bertha, the wife of Adalbert (who was blindly guided by her), a woman of an intriguing disposition, was the daughter of Lothair II and of Waldrada. Her first husband was Theobald, count of Arles, by whom she had Hugo, afterwards king of Italy. Sigonius relates the manner in which all the intrigues of those times in Italy and Burgundy were conducted by this woman.
[143] He took the latter prisoner in a stable, and said to him, “Your wife would have made of you either a king or an ass, now you have become the latter.”
[144] [Known to Germans as Heinrich der Vogler.]
