Bertrada 'au grand pied' Laon

Abt 720 - 783  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Bertrada 'au grand pied' Laon  [1]
  Birth	Abt 720	Laon, Austrasia
  Gender	Female
  Name	Bertrada of Leon
  Death	12 Jul 783	Choisy-Au-Bac, France
  Person ID	I7558	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family	Pepin 'the Short' King of the Franks Pippinid,   b. Abt 715, Jupille-sur-Meuse, Liege, Wallonia, Belgium d. 24 Sep 768, Saint-Denis, Paris, Ile-de-France, France (Age ~ 53 years)
  Children	+ 1. Charles Charlemagne Carolingian,   b. Abt 2 Apr 748, Austrasia, Francia d. 28 Jan 814, Aachen, Austrasia, Francia (Age ~ 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2431	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2024

  
  

• Photos		1880 United States Federal Census
  		1950 United States Federal Census

  
  

• Notes

  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Laon-14 BIOGRAPHY FROM GENEALOGICS.ORG: Bertrada of Laon, also called Bertrada 'au grand pied' and Bertha Broadfoot, was born about 720 in Laon, in today's Aisne, France, the daughter of Heribert/Caribert of Laon. In 740 she married Pippin 'the Short', the son of Charles Martel, the Frankish Mayor of the Palace, although the union was not canonically sanctioned until several years later. Eleven years later, in 751, Pippin and Bertrada became King and Queen of the Franks, following Pippin's successful coup against the Frankish Merovingian monarchs. Bertrada and Pippin are known to have had four children, three sons and one daughter; of these, Charles (Charlemagne), Carloman and Gisela survived to adulthood, while Pippin died in infancy. Charlemagne and Carloman would inherit the two halves of their father's kingdom when he died, and Gisela became a nun. Bertrada lived at the court of her elder son Charles, and according to Einhard their relationship was excellent. She recommended that he marry his first wife Desiderata, a daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius, but he soon divorced her. Einhard claims that this was the only episode that ever strained relations between mother and son. Bertrada lived with Charlemagne until her death on 12 June 783. The king buried her with great honours in the Basilica of Saint Denis. Biography from wikitree: Birth and Parents Bertrada [1] was also known as Berta; "au grand pied" [2] She was born in 720 (some have as early as 710) Her father was Charibert, Count of Laon [1] Her mother is unknown. [1] Marriage About 743/4 she married Pepin III "le bref," King of the Franks. [3] Queen of the Franks When Pepin assumed the Frankish Merovingian Monarchy in 751 Bertrada became Queen of the Franks. [4] After Pepin's death she lost this title in 768. However she lived at her son Charlemagne's court and their relationship was considered to be excellent. [5] Death She died 12 Jun or Jul 783 in Choisy-au-Bac [1] [6] and is buried in the église de l'abbaye royale de Saint Denis[7] Issue Issue: 6 proven[8] According to French historian Léon Levillain, Bertrada was Pepin's first and only wife. [9] However others believe he was also married previously as outlined by Ducret. [10] Ducret has Pepin married with Leuthberga or Leutbergie and producing 5 children, while Levillain, Settipani, and Tessier have him only married to Bertrada and producing 7 children as noted below. [11] Charles (02 Apr 748 - 28 Jan 814) [12] who reigned as Charlemagne, King of the Franks (768-814), King of the Longobardes (773-814) and Emperor of the Romans (800-814). [13] Carloman , King of the Franks (751- 04 Dec 771)[14] He married Gerberga who died in 772 or later [15] Gisela, Abbess of Chelles (757 - 30 Jul 810)[16] [17] Pepin (759- 761/2)[[18] Chrothais (d. Young)[19] Adelais (d. Young)[20] (?) daughter [21](Wikipedia lists Berthe) (?) daughter [21](Wikipedia lists Rothaide), Sources ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families, Online at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy Website. Bertrada ↑ Unknown author, notes about Bertha [1] ↑ Tessier, Georges (1952). "Léon Levillain". Chronique: Nécrologie. Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes (in French). 110: 306-313. ↑ Mémoires couronnés et autres mémoires publiés par l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique [Crown Memoirs and Other Memoirs Published by the Royal Academy for the Sciences and the Arts of Belgium] (in French). 11. Belgium: Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium. 1861. OCLC 1770765 ↑ Einhard Vita Karoli Magni (Life of Charles the Great) is a biography of Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor ↑ Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families, Online at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy Website. Carolingians ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint-Denis ↑ Cawley, Carolingians footnote reference 7 ↑ Tessier, Georges (1952). "Léon Levillain". Chronique: Nécrologie. Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes (in French). 110: 306-313. ↑ Ducret, Alix (2007). Les femmes et le pouvoir dans l'histoire de France [Women and Power in French History]. Perspectives (in French). Levallois-Perret: Studyrama. ISBN 978-2759001118. OCLC 421956409 ↑ Settipani, Christian, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne, Paris, 1989; Settipani, Christian, Addendum to the Ancestors of Charlemagne, 1990 (PDF) ↑ footnote reference 15 ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Kimball G. Everingham, editor. By the author: Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013. Volume 5, page 483 ↑ Cawley, Carolingians, footnote reference 16 ↑ Cawley, Carolingians, footnote reference 26 ↑ Cawley, Carolingians, footnote reference 37 ↑ Wikipedia: Gisela,_Abbess_of_Chelles ↑ Cawley, Carolingians, footnote reference 44 ↑ Cawley, Carolingians, footnote reference 46 (he is not listed in Wikipedia) ↑ Cawley, Carolingians, footnote reference 48 ↑ 21.0 21.1 Cawley, Carolingians, footnote reference 50 See also: Weis, F. L. (1982). Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, (5th ed). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.

  
  

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