Rotrude de Treves

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Rotrude Chortude Duchess of Austrasia
• Death: 22 Oct 741, Cressy Sur, Oise, Picardie, France

Notes:

According to Frankish tradition, she was the daughter of Saint Leutwinus, son of Gunza and one Count Warinus, himself the son of Sigrada and Bodilan. Her mother, whose name was not known, was said to be the daughter of Doda and Rodobertus, son of Lantbertus I.

Rotrude married Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace about 710. Charles (son of Pepin d'Heristal, II and Alpaida (Chalpaida)) was born on 23 Aug 676 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium; died on 22 Oct 741 in Quierzy-sur-Oise, Aisne, Picardie, France; was buried in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Carloman

Carloman married Bertha about 735 in Liege, Belgium. Bertha (daughter of Desiderius) was born about 716. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mayor of the Palace of the whole Frankish kingdom (both Austrasia and Neustria), and later King of the Franks; born 714; died at St. Denis, 24 September, 768. He was the son of Charles Martel. Pepin and his older brother Carloman were taught by the monks of St. Denis, and the impressions received during their monastic education had a controlling influence upon the relations of both princes to the Church. When the father died in 741 the two brothers began to reign jointly but not without strong opposition, for Griffon, the son of Charles Martel and the Bavarian Sonnichilde, demanded a share in the government. Moreover, the Duke of the Aquitanians and the Duke of the Alamannians thought this a favorable opportunity to throw off the Frankish supremacy. The young kings were repeatedly involved in war, but all their opponents, including the Bavarians and Saxons, were defeated and the unity of the kingdom re-established. As early as 741 Carloman had entered upon his epoch-making relations with St. Boniface, to whom was now opened a new field of labor, the reformation of the Frankish Church. On 21 April, 742, Boniface was present at a Frankish synod presided over by Carloman at which important reforms were decreed. As in the Frankish realm the unity of the kingdom was essentially connected with the person of the king, Carloman to secure this unity raised the Merovingian Childeric to the throne (743). In 747 he resolved to enter a monastery. The danger, which up to this time had threatened the unity of the kingdom from the division of power between the two brothers, was removed, and at the same time the way was prepared for the deposing of the last Merovingian and for the crowning of Pepin. The latter put down the renewed revolt led by his step-brother Griffon, and succeeded in completely restoring the boundaries of the kingdom. Pepin now addressed to the Pope the suggestive question: In regard to the kings o the Franks who no longer possess the royal power, is this state of things proper? Hard pressed by the Lombards, Pope Zacharias welcomed this advance of the Franks which aimed at ending an intolerable condition of things, and at laying the constitutional foundations for the exercise of the royal power. The pope replied that such a state of things was not proper. After this decision the place Pepin desired to occupy was declared vacant. The crown was given him not by the pope but by the Franks. According to the ancient custom Pepin was then elected king and soon after this was anointed by Boniface. This consecration of the new kingdom by the head of the Church was intended to remove any doubt as to its legitimacy. On the contrary, the consciousness of having saved the Christian world from the Saracens produced, among the Franks, the feeling that their kingdom owed its authority directly to God. Still this external cooperation of the pope in the transfer of the kingdom to the Carolingians would necessarily enhance the importance of the Church. The relations between the two controlling powers of Christendom now rapidly developed. It was soon evident to what extent the alliance between Church and State was to check the decline of ecclesiastical and civil life; it made possible the conversion of the still heathen German tribes, and when that was accomplished provided an opportunity for both Church and State to recruit strength and to grow. Ecclesiastical, political, and economic developments had made the popes lords of the ducatus Romanus. They laid before Pepin their claims to the central provinces of Italy, which had belonged to them before Liutprand's conquest. When Stephen II had a conference with King Pepin at Ponthion in January, 754, the pope implored his assistance against his oppressor the Lombard King Aistulf, and begged for the same protection for the prerogatives of St. Peter which the Byzantine exarchs had extended to them, to which the king agreed, and in the charter establishing the States of the Church, soon after given at Quiercy, he promised to restore these prerogatives. The Frankish king received the title of the former representative of the Byzantine Empire in Italy, i.e. "Patricius", and was also assigned the duty of protecting the privileges of the Holy See. When Stephen II performed the ceremony of anointing Pepin and his son at St. Denis, it was St. Peter who was regarded as the mystical giver of the secular power, but the emphasis thus laid upon the religious character of political law left vague the legal relations between pope and king. After the acknowledgment of his territorial claims the pope was in reality a ruling sovereign, but he had placed himself under the protection of the Frankish ruler and had sworn that he and his people would be true to the king. Thus his sovereignty was limited from the very start as regards what was external to his domain. The connection between Rome and the Frankish kingdom involved Pepin during the years 754-56 in war with the Lombard King Aistulf, who was forced to return to the Church the territory he had illegally held. Pepin's commanding position in the world of his time was permanently secured when he took Septimania from the Arabs. Another particularly important act was his renewed overthrow of the rebellion in Aquitaine which was once more made a part of the kingdom. He was not so fortunate in his campaigns against the Saxons and Bavarians. He could do no more than repeatedly attempt to protect the boundaries of the kingdom against the incessantly restless Saxons. Bavaria remained an entirely independent State and advanced in civilization under Duke Tassilo. Pepin's activity in war was accompanied by a widely extended activity in the internal affairs of the Frankish kingdom, his main object being the reform of legislation and internal affairs, especially of ecclesiastical conditions. He continued the ecclesiastical reforms commenced by St. Boniface. In doing this Pepin demanded an unlimited authority over the Church. He himself wished to be the leader of the reforms. However, although St. Boniface changed nothing by his reformatory labors in the ecclesiastico-political relations that had developed in the Frankish kingdom upon the basis of the Germanic conception of the State, nevertheless he had placed the purified and united Frankish Church more definitely under the control of the papal see than had hitherto been the case. From the time of St. Boniface the Church was more generally acknowledged by the Franks to be the mystical power appointed by God. When he deposed the last of the Merovingians Pepin was also obliged to acknowledge the increased authority of the Church by calling upon it for moral support. Consequently the ecclesiastical supremacy of the Frankish king over the Church of his country remained externally undiminished. Nevertheless by his life-work Pepin had powerfully aided the authority of the Church and with it the conception of ecclesiastical unity. He was buried at St. Denis where he died. He preserved the empire created by Clovis from the destruction that menaced it; he was able to overcome the great danger arising from social conditions that threatened the Frankish kingdom, by opposing to the unruly lay nobility the ecclesiastical aristocracy that had been strengthened by the general reform. When he died the means had been created by which his greater son could solve the problems of the empire. Pepin's policy marked out the tasks to which Charlemagne devoted himself: quieting the Saxons, the subjection of the duchies and lastly, the regulation of the ecclesiastical question and with it that of Italy. FRANZ KAMPERS Transcribed by Michael C. Tinkler The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XI Copyright 1911 by Robert Appleton Company

Pepin married Bertrada II de Laon in 740. Bertrada (daughter of Claribert de Laon, Count Laon I and Gisele of Aquitaine) was born on 2 Apr 720 in Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 12 Jun 783 in Choisy-au-Bac, Oise, Picardie, France; was buried in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Auda married Thierry (Theodoric), Count of Autun and Toulouse IV in 749 in Autun, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. Thierry (son of V Sigebert) was born in 730 in Autun, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; died on 15 Dec 793 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France; was buried in Aniane, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rotrude married Gerard, Count of Paris I about 753 in Paris, Seine, France. Gerard was born about 733 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France; died in 779 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Aachen Cathedral

Family/Spouse: Himiltrude. Himiltrude was born in 742; died in 780. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlemagne married Desiderata (Sibilla) (Bertha) in 768. Desiderata was born about 747. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlemagne married Hildegarde de Vintzau in 772. Hildegarde (daughter of Gerold, Duke of Swabia I and Emma von Vinzgau) was born on 2 Apr 757 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died on 30 Apr 783 in Thionville, Moselle, Lorraine, France; was buried in St Arnoul Abbey, Metz, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlemagne married Regina (Reginophychra) about 791. Regina was born about 770 in of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Prussia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertha married Fredalon about 781 in France. Fredalon was born about 755 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Some histories shown him as Judiarch of Narbonne and Exilarch of Baghdad, and secretly a prince of the house of David. This theory derives from Arthur Zuckerman's book, "A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900" (New York, 1972), the thesis of which is not accepted by all historians. Regardless, William was a very impressive individual about whom the largest body of heroic poetry in medieval France, the "Saint William cycle" of chansons de geste, developed in the centuries following his death. According to Pierre Béstournas d`Haucourt in "Heraldique ett Genealogie, 1981, p.363: Guilhem, Margrave of Toulouse, later monk at Gellone, canonized as St. William of the Desert (St. Guilhem du Désert),, * ca. 752, +8112. The remains of the monastery where he resided and which was named after him (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert) were transported to Neww York and re-built in the Cloisters complex of the Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier the 20th century. Additionally, David H. Kelley identifies him as the exilarch Natronai, both are questionable, especially in view of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and it's genealogical records in 70 CE. Although it should be noted that Charlemagne did bring back a Jewish official to Germany and this is supposed to be the father of Guillaume.

Randy Jones identifies his father as Thierry or Theuderic d'Autun and his mother as Alda de Francia. There is no supporting evidence for this, so I am going with the limited data as above and that of the Endfield-Bryant Genealogy. JCT 12/23/2000

Family/Spouse: Guitberge de Hornbach. Guitberge (daughter of Lambert, daughter of Lambert von Hornbach) was born in Hornbach, Bergstrasse, Hessen, Germany; died in Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Baldwin married Rotrude in 775 in Aquitaine, France. Rotrude was born in 742 in Belgium; died in 785 in Brosse, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beggo married Amaudru about 784 in Paris, Seine, France. Amaudru (daughter of Charlemagne, Emperor of the West Holy Roman Emperor and Desiderata (Sibilla) (Bertha)) was born about 760 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Grimhilda. Grimhilda (daughter of Baldwin d'Aquitaine and Rotrude) was born in 784 in Ville, Paris, Ile-de-France, France; died in 856 in Roussillon, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Abbess of St. Peter's at Rheims

Amaudru married Beggo, Count of Paris about 784 in Paris, Seine, France. Beggo (son of Gerard, Count of Paris I and Rotrude de Brosse) was born in 760 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France; died on 28 Oct 816 in Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Louis "the Pious" Emperor of the Romans

Notes:

Buried:
Aachen Cathedral, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Prussia

Louis married Judith of Bavaria in Feb 818 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Judith (daughter of Guelph (Welf) von Altdorf Count d'Andech Duke of Bavaria, III and Hedwig) was born in 802 in Altdorf, Boblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 19 Apr 843 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France; was buried in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Ermengarde in 794 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium. Ermengarde (daughter of Duke of Hesbaye Ingeramne, Duke Of Hesbaye and Ingeramne de Heristal) was born on 1 Aug 778 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium; died on 3 Oct 818 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Aachen, Aachener Stadtkreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Pepin married of Toulouse Bertha de Toulouse about 795. Bertha (daughter of of Belgium Bernard de St. Quentin and Gerberge de Laon) was born in 775 in Liege, Belgium; was buried in Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Bertha married Angilbert "The Saint" St. Riquier in 795. Angilbert (son of Nithand Martel and Richarde) was born about 750; died on 18 Feb 814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dhuoda married Duke of Narbonne, Count of Barcelona Bernard d'Autun, Marquis of Septimania and Count of Barcelona I on 25 Jun 824 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Bernard (son of Guillaume (William) d'Autun and Guitberge de Hornbach) was born in 797 in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Departement de l'Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 17 Apr 818. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Senegonde married of Toulouse Fulguad about 805 in Toulouse, France. Fulguad was born about 780 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rotlinde married Walla de Bobbio in 811. Walla was born in 754; died in 836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bernard de Septimania
• Birth: 805
• Death: 844; Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Notes:

Died:
Aachen, Aachener Stadtkreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Bernard married Dhuoda de Gascogne on 25 Jun 824 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Dhuoda (daughter of Charlemagne, Emperor of the West Holy Roman Emperor and Regina (Reginophychra)) was born about 804 in Gascoigne, Aquitaine, France; died on 2 Feb 842 in Uzès, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Leuthard, Count of Paris and Fezensac I. Leuthard (son of Gerard, Count of Paris I and Rotrude de Brosse) was born in 780 in Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France; died on 3 Jan 813 in Roussillon, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]