Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Queen of Neustria & Burgundy
• FSID: L1HB-159

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Wikipedia

Bertrude, Countess of Vermandois (c. 582–618 or 619) was a Countess of Vermandois and a Frankish queen consort from 613 to 618. She was married to Chlothar II.[1]

Her origins are uncertain and unconfirmed; however, it is known that the Mayor of the Palace Erchinoald was King Dagobert I’s cousin through his mother, making her the sister of Saint Gerberge and, therefore, a daughter of Richomer and Saint Gertrude of Hamage. Because Chlothar had three wives (Haldetrude, Bertrude, and Sichilde)[2] and it is not known which was mother of his sons Dagobert I and Charibert II, it is not clear this daughter of Richomer was Bertrude. It is also possible Bertrude was a daughter of Wagon II.

According to the Chronique du Pseudo-Frédégaire, Bertrude loved Chlothar sincerely. She was also described as a popular queen. She is reported to have exposed and prevented an attempted plot by the Burgundian Aletheus, who planned to kill Chlothar and force Bertrude to marry him.[2]

Bertrude died during the 35th year of Chlothar II’s reign, in either 618 or 619. Their daughter was called Bertha. (There is no record of this birth - she was the mother of Dagobert and a son who died in infancy -Medlands Project)

Family/Spouse: of the Franks, King Chlothar II. Chlothar (son of de Neustria, King Chilperic I and de Cambrai, Frèdègonde) was born in Jun 584 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France; was christened on 23 Oct 585 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died on 18 Oct 629 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; was buried after 18 Oct 629 in Abbey of Saint-German-Des-Prés, Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. of the Franks, Dagobert I was born in 603 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 19 Jan 639 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; was buried after 19 Jan 639 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Duke of Burgundy
• Appointments / Titles: Duke of Franconia
• FSID: LDZ2-K7Q
• Alternate Birth: 555, Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France

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About Richemir, duke of the Burgundians & Franconians

Richemir, Duke of the Burgundians & Franconians. He was Patrician of the Burgundians, and Duke in Franconia and Burgundy. Said on unknown authority to have been a son of Betton d'Orléans, who was also duke in Franconia and Burgundy, and his wife Austregild.

The Burgundians were conquered by the Franks in 534. The Franks also recovered Provence from the Ostrogoths and re-attached it to Burgundy in 536. The Merovingian kings of the Franks kept Burgundy as a distinct entity under their personal rule.

Died after 605

Richemer married of Bavaria, Saint Garitrudis. Garitrudis was born in 560 in Bayern, Germany; died in 649 in Douai, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was buried in 649 in Douai, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Abbess of Hamage
• Appointments / Titles: Duchess of Franconia
• FSID: LDZ2-K7N

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Catholic.org/saints-

Listed as the daughter of Theodoald of Bavaria

The daughter of a nobleman of Douai, France, Gertrude married the nobleman Rigomer. Widowed at an early age, she devoted herself to the education of her three sons, one of whom was to be venerated as a saint and martyr, Adalbald. Gertrude’s son Sigebert was to marry a future saint, Bertha. Following the settlement of her sons, Gertrude withdrew from the world to live at an oratory in Hamage, where she devoted herself to religious exercises and acts of charity. Here she was joined in her life of piety by her granddaughter Eusebia. Gertrude bravely endured the sorrow of learning that her son Adalbald had been assassinated. Adalbald’s widow, Rictrude, became a saint. At Hamage Gertrude founded and became abbess of a convent, where she trained her granddaughter for religious life before dying and leaving the government of the convent to her. http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5952