Rotrude RotrudeWife of Gérard I, count of Paris.
Date of birth: Unknown.
Place of birth: Unknown.
Date of burial: 3 December.
Place of
burial:
Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
The notice of her burial appears
in the oldest (pre-869) part of the obituary of
Saint-Germain-des-Prés ["iij non. Dec. Dep. Hrottrudis,
conjugis Gerehardi" Longnon (1884), 52; Obit. Sens 1.1:
280].
Father: Unknown.
Mother: Unknown.
Since Charlemagne had two daughters named
Rotrude and Rothilde, Depoin suggested that he and Rotrude were
related [Depoin (1912), 89]. However, there is no direct evidence
regarding the parentage of Rotrude.
Spouse: Gérard I, fl. 747-775, count of Paris.
Probable children:
See the page of Gérard I for details.
Rothilde (Chrotildis),
d. 24 May.
Étienne (Stephanus),
fl. 802-815, count of Paris.
Leuthard, d.
after 811, count of Fézensac;
m. Grimhilde.
Possible child or other close relative:
Bégon, bur.
28 October 816, count of Paris.
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.
Longnon (1884) = Auguste Longnon, "Notice sur le plus ancien obituaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés", in Notices et Documents publiés pour la Société de l'Histoire de France à l'occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de sa fondation (Paris, 1884), 19-55.
Obit. Sens = Obituaires de la Province de Sens (2 vols. in 3, Paris, 1902-6).
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
First uploaded 16 August 2012.