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"We know almost nothing about the court of Lothair II simply because most of our sources devoted to him are in two particular categories. One—narrative sources describing the vulnerability of his own little kingdom in the middle of the west and the east Frankish kingdoms, where his uncles, Charles the Bald on the west and Louis the German on the east, were in fact casting their greedy eyes upon his kingdom with the hope of taking it. The other category of information is much more pertinent to this crystal, in that it is concerning the attempts Lothair II made to get rid of his wife Theutberga. He appears to have married her very soon after he inherited the throne, even though he had a long-standing mistress called Waldrada, from whom he had two children, a son and a daughter. When he married Theutberga she had no children, and she continued to bear no children, and Lothair appears to have decided Waldrada would be a better bet. So he recruited his two bishops, of Cologne and Trier, to have the marriage annulled, on the grounds of incest with Theutberga's brother."
原因在于現(xiàn)有的與他相關(guān)的資料基本只有兩類(lèi)。一類(lèi)引用各項(xiàng)記錄描述他那夾在東西法蘭克王國(guó)之間的小國(guó)的脆弱，他的兩位叔叔，西邊的禿頭查理和東邊的日耳曼人路易，都對(duì)他的江山虎視眈眈。另一類(lèi)則跟這塊水晶關(guān)系更密切，著重描述了國(guó)王為擺脫妻子塞勃格而作的努力。他似乎是在繼承王位不久之后便迎娶了塞勃格，但之前早巳有個(gè)名叫沃爾德華達(dá)的情婦，還為他生有一子一女。而塞勃格一直沒(méi)有給他添子嗣。洛泰爾似乎斷定沃爾德華達(dá)才是較好的選擇。他找來(lái)科隆和特里爾的兩位主教，要他們以王后與她的兄弟亂倫為由宣布解除他們的婚姻關(guān)系。
Lothair's bid to divorce his wife and marry his mistress was no self-indulgent whim; he needed to have a legitimate heir. It was his only chance to preserve his inheritance and his kingdom. But royal divorce, then as now, was political dynamite.
洛泰爾試圖廢后再迎娶情婦的行為并非完全出于一己私欲：他需要一位合法繼承人，這是他保留繼承權(quán)與王國(guó)的唯一機(jī)會(huì)。但王室的離婚件，不論今時(shí)還是往日，都是政治上的一顆重磅炸彈。
The bishops of Cologne and Trier had actually obtained confessions from the Queen—possibly through torture—that she had committed incest with her brother, but Theutberga appealed to the Pope, who investigated the case and declared her innocent.
科隆和特里爾的主教其實(shí)已經(jīng)拿到了王后供認(rèn)與兄弟亂倫的證詞，這可能是屈打成招的結(jié)果。但塞勃格又向教皇上訴，后者通過(guò)調(diào)査宣布她是清白的。
