Ermentrude

Events

Date of Birth: 27 September.

The date is given by Baldwin and by Settipani (p. 307). Settipani estimates the year as near 830.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 6 October 869.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by père Anselme (1:33) and by Baldwin. Settipani (p. 307) gives the same date, and states that she died in the abbey of Saint-Denis.

Place of Burial: Saint-Denis.

The place is given by père Anselme (1:33) and by Settipani (p. 307).

Relationships

Father: Odo (Eudes) (died 834), count of Orléans.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:33), by Schieffer, by Settipani (p. 307), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Engeltrude.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:33), by Settipani (p. 307), and by Baldwin, who states that she was probably the daughter of Leuthard, count of Fézensac, and his wife, Grimhilde. Settipani states that she was the sister of Count Adalhard, seneschal of Louis the Pious.

Spouse: Charles the Bald. Married 13 or 14 December 842 in Quierzy.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:33), by Schieffer, by Settipani (p. 307), and by Baldwin.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin.)

Judith (about 844 - after 870) married (1) Æthelwulf, king of Wessex; married (2) Æthelbald, king of Wessex; married (3) Baldwin I of Flanders.

Louis II (about 846 - 10 April 879), king of Neustria, king of Aquitaine, king of France, married (1) Ansgard, daughter of count Harduin in March 862; married (2) Adelaide, daughter of count Adelard in about 870.

Charles (about 847 or 848 - 29 September 866), king of Aquitaine, married a daughter of count Humbert in 862.

Carloman (died about 877 or 878). Abbot.

Lothair (died 865), abbot of Saint-Germaine, Auxerre.

Hildegard.

Ermentrude, abbess of Hasnon.

Gisela.

Drogo (died before 866).

Pépin (died before 866).

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Ermentrude” in The Henry Project.

Cawley, Charles. “Ermentrudis” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Schieffer, Theodor. “Karl II. der Kahle” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 11 (1977), S. 175-181) [Onlinefassung].

Settipani, Christian (with Patrick Van Kerrebrouck). La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987. Première Partie (Volume 1 of Nouvelle Histoire Généalogique de l’Auguste Maison de France, 1993).