Grimhilde
GrimhildeDate of birth: Unknown.
Place of birth: Unknown.
Date of death: Unknown.
Place of
death: Unknown.
Father: Unknown.
Mother: Unknown.
For conjectured parents and other
relations, see the Commentary section.
Spouse: Leuthard, d. after 811, count of Fézensac.
Children:
Gérard II "de Roussillon",
d. 878×9, count of Paris, count of Vienne;
m. Berthe, daughter of Hugues,
count of Tours.
Probable children:
Adalard (Alard), fl. 831-877,
senechal.
Engeltrude,
m. Eudes, d. 834, count of Orléans.
Rotrude, d. 10 December, year unknown.
For documentation on the children and probable children of Grimhilde, see the page of Leuthard.
The following conjectures have been offered regarding the origin of Grimhilde.
Levillain:
Conjectured father (evidence
weak): Hugues (Ugo),
fl. 28 December 774.
Conjectured mother (evidence
weak): Grimhilde (Eremhilt,
Eremhildis), fl. 28 December 774.
Conjectured sister (evidence
weak): Bertrude (Berthrudis),
d. before 28 December 774.
On 28 December 774, Hugues and his wife
Grimhilde/Eremhilde made a donation to Lorsch for the soul of
their daughter Bertrude ["ego Ugo & conjux mea
Eremhilt donamus pro anima filiæ nostræ Berthrudis ... Signum
Ugonis & conjugis ejus Eremhildis" Codex
Lauresh., 1: 383-4 (#321)]. Their supposed connection to
Grimhilde, wife of Leuthard, is an onomastic conjecture of
Levillain which is not backed up by any direct evidence.
Depoin, Chaume:
Conjectured brother (evidence
uncertain): Badilo,
fl. 877, abbot of Saint-Martin d'Autun.
Badilo appears as abbot of Saint-Martin
d'Autun on 12 July 877 ["Similiter et venerabilis
Badilo, qui ad praesens jam habetur." RHF 8: 668].
Depoin stated that Grimhilde's son Gérard was nepos to
abbot Badilo who in turn had an uncle count Badilo [Depoin
(1912), 100, n. 49, 106, n. 69]. Chaume makes Grimhilde a sister
of count or abbot Badilo [Chaume (1925), 177, n. 1, 266, n. 1,
270]. Neither cites a clear source for this relationship. [For
Badilo, see also De S. Badilone abbate, AASS, Oct., 4:
349-361]
AASS = Acta Sanctorum.
Chaume (1925) = Maurice Chaume, Les origines du duché de Bourgogne, 4 vols. (Dijon, 1925).
Codex Lauresh. = Codex principis olim Laureshamensis abbatiae diplomaticus, 3 vols., (Mannheim, 1768). I have only had access to volumes 1 and 2. I have not seen Glöckner's modern edition [K. Glöckner, ed., Codex Laurehsamensis, 3 vols., (Darmstadt, 1929-36)].
Depoin (1912) = Joseph Depoin, "Les comtes de Paris sous la dynastie carolingienne", Mémoires de la société historique et archéologique de l'arrondissement de Pontoise et du Vexin 31 (1912): 83-117.
Levillain (1947) = Léon Levillain, "L'Alsace et les origines lointaines de la maison de France", Revue d'Alsace 87 (1947): 175-195, 257-272.
RHF = Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France.
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
First uploaded 26 July 2008.