Ermentrude
ErmentrudeDate of birth: 27 September, year unknown.
Charles gives 27 September
as his wife's date of birth in a charter of 862 [RHF 8: 579
(#176)]. The estimate of ca. 830 given by Werner and Settipani
for the birth seems a bit late [Werner (1967), table; Settipani
(1993), 307], as it would make her only 12 at her marriage.
Place of birth: Unknown.
Date of death: 6 October 869.
["Karolus in villa
Duciaco 7. Idus Octobris certo [nuntio] comperiens, obisse
Hyrmentrudem uxorem suam 2. Nonas Octobris in monasterio sancti
Dionysii, ubi et sepulta est, exsequente Bosone, filio Buvini
quondam comitis, hoc missaticum apud matrem et materteram suam
Teutbergam, Hlotharii regis relictam, sororem ipsius Bosonis
nomine Richildem mox sibi adduci fecit et in concubinam accepit."
Ann. Bertin., s.a. 869, 107]
Place of death: Unknown.
Father: Eudes, d.
834, count of Orléans.
Mother: Engeltrude.
["Accepit quidem Karolus, uti praefatum est, in
coniugio Hirmintrudem, Uodonis et Ingeltrudis filiam et neptem
Adelardi." Nithard, iv, 6, MGH SS 2: 671]
Spouse: m. at Quierzy on 13 (or 14) December 842, Charles "le
Chauve", d. 6 October
877, king of the Western Franks, emperor.
["Karolus Carisiacum palatium
veniens, Ermendrud, neptem Adalardi comitis, uxorem ducit, ..."
Ann. Bertin., s.a. 842, 29; "Accepit quidem
Karolus, uti praefatum est, in coniugio Hirmentrudem, Uodonis et
Ingeltrudis filiam et neptem Adelardi." Nithard iv, 6,
MGH SS 2: 671-2, who places the marriage on 14 December, at
Quierzy] The date of 13 December is given in two acts of Charles
from 862 [RHF 8: 579 (#176), 582 (#177)].
Children:
See the page of Charles
"le Chauve" for details.
Judith, b. ca. 844, d. after 870;
m. (1) 1 October 856, Æthelwulf,
d. 858, king of Wessex;
m. (2) 858, Æthelbald, d. 860, king of Wessex;
m. (3) 863, Baldwin
I, d. 879, count of Flanders.
Louis II, b. 1 November, ca. 846, d. 10 April 879; king of
Neustria, 856; king of Aquitaine, 867; king of France 877-9;
m. (1) March 862, Ansgard, daughter
of count Harduin;
m. (2) ca. 870, Adelaide, daughter
of count Adelard.
Charles (Karolus minor),
b. 847×8, d. 29 September 866, king of Aquitaine, 855-863,
865-6;
m. 862, NN, widow of count
Humbert.
Carloman, tonsured 854, blinded
873, d. 877×8; abbot of Saint-Médard de Soissons,
Moutier-Saint-Jean, Saint-Riquier (in Ponthieu), Saint-Germain
d'Auxerre, Saint-Amand, and Monstier-Ramé; abbot of Echternach.
Lothair, d. 865 (before 25
December), abbot of Saint-Germain, Auxerre.
Hildegard.
Ermentrude, fl. 877, abbess of
Hasnon.
Gisela.
Drogo (twin), d. before 866.
Pépin (twin), d. before 866.
Ann. Bertin. = G. Waitz, ed., Annales Bertiniani (MGH SRG 6, Hannover, 1883).
MGH SS = Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores series.
RHF = Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France.
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
First uploaded 26 July 2008.
Ermentrude's birthdate added 2 August 2008 (with thanks to Roger LeBlanc, who noticed that I had overlooked this).