d'Orléans, Queen Ermentrude

Female 823 - 869  (46 years)


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  1. 1.  d'Orléans, Queen Ermentrude was born on 27 Sep 823 in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France (daughter of d'Orléans, Count Eudes and de Fézensac, Engeltrude); died on 6 Oct 869 in France; was buried after 6 Oct 869 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • House: Udalriching
    • FSID: LQ5H-F6D

    Notes:

    Ermentrude of Orléans (27 September 823 – 6 October 869) was Queen of the Franks by her marriage to Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of West Francia. She was the daughter of Odo, Count of Orléans and his wife Engeltrude. The epithet 'of Orléans' is not contemporary.

    She and Charles married in 842. Their children were:
    - Judith of Flanders ,b c. 843, married King Æthelwulf of Wessex, King Æthelbald of Wessex, Baldwin I, Margrave of Flanders
    - Louis the Stammerer (846–879)
    - Charles the Child (847–866)
    - Lothar the Lame (848–865), Abbot of Saint-Germain
    - Carloman (849–876)
    - Rotrud (852–912), Abbess of Saint-Radegunde
    - Ermentrud (854–877), Abbess of Hasnon
    - Hildegard (born 856, died a child)
    - Gisela (857–874)
    - Godehilde (864–907)

    French Queen. Born the the daughter of Odo, Comte de Orléans and Ergetrude, at Orleans, Neustria, Loiret, France. She married Charles I of France in 842. The couple had at least nine children, including the future Louis II 'the Stammerer'. She reportedly was well known for her embroidery and had an interest in religious foundations. At least three of her children entered the church, rising to Abbott or Abbess for their respective orders. Additionaly, her husband gave her the Abbey of Chelles. The royal couple separated when the king had his brother-in-law executed for treason in 866, and she retired to a convent. Her name has also been recorded as Hirmentrude and Irmintrud.
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    “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
    “CHARLES II the Bald, King of Neustria, 838-840, King of the West Franks, 840-877, King of (western) Lorraine, 870-877, King of Italy, 875-877, Emperor, 875-877, son by his father's 2nd marriage, born at Frankfurt-am-Main 13 June 823. He married (1st) at Quierzy, Aisne 13 Dec. 842 ERMENTRUDE OF ORLÉANS, daughter of Eudes, Count of Orléans, by his wife, Engeltrude. She was born 27 Sept., about 830. They had six sons, Louis (II) [King of Neustria, King of Aquitaine, King of France], Charles [King of Aquitaine], Karlmann (or Carloman) [Abbot of St.-Germain of Auxerre], Lothair [Abbot of St.-Germain of Auxerre], Dreux, and Pépin, and four daughters, Judith, Hildegarde, Ermentrude [Abbess of Hasnon], and Gisela (or Gisele). His wife, Ermentrude, died 6 October 869. He married (2nd) 12 October 869, confirmed at Aix-la-Chapelle 22 Jan. 870 RICHILDE OF GORZE, daughter of Bivin, Count and Abbot of Gorze, by daughter of Boson l'Ancien, count in Italy. They had three children, including one son, Charles, and one daughter, Rothilde (wife of Rodgar [or Roger], Count of Maine). CHARLES II the Bald, Emperor, King of the West Franks, died at Brides-les-Bains (Savoie, Fr.) 6 October 877, and was buried at Nantua monastery, later at St. Denis. His widow, Richilde, living 910, and died before 3 Feb. 911.

    Monumenta Germaniæ Historica SS XIII (1881): 219. (Annales Necrologici Prumienses [necrology of Prüm]: "Anno Domini inc. 877. Karolus, frater eius, Nonas Octob. feliciter obit.”) Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 5 (1898): 112 (seal of King Charles II dated A.D. 843 - Oval: bust of a youthful personage, in profile to the right, head crowned with laurel. Legend: + KAROLVS GRATIA DI REX.). Halphen Recueil d'Annales Angevines et Vendômoises (1903): 54-55 (Annales de Vendôme sub A.D. 877: "Karolus imperator obiit, id est Calvus, et filius ejus Hludowicus regnum recepit."). Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) III 15. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 1 (1980): 2 (sub Die Karolinger); 2 (1984): 1 (sub Kings of the West Franks). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): III.15, IV.39-IV.52. Online resource: http.//www.mittelalter-genealogie.de/mittelalter/koenige/frankenreich/karl_2_der_kahle_koenig_von_frankreich_877.html.”

    Ermentrude married le Chauve, King Charles II on 13 Dec 842 in France. Charles (son of de France, King Louis I and of Bavaria, Judith) was born on 23 Jun 823 in Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany; died on 6 Oct 877 in Avrieux, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried after 6 Oct 877 in Basilica of St Denis, Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. de France, Judith was born in Oct 844 in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France; died on 13 Jan 870 in Bruges, Gironde, Aquitaine, France; was buried after 13 Jan 870 in Abbey of Saint Bertin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
    2. de France, Louis II was born on 1 Nov 846; died on 10 Apr 879 in Compiègne, Oise, Picardie, France; was buried after 10 Apr 879 in Compiègne, Oise, Picardie, France.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  d'Orléans, Count Eudes was born in 770 in France; died on 25 May 834; was buried after 25 May 824 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Appointments / Titles: Count of Orléans
    • Nickname: Odo I
    • FSID: LYNB-3JZ

    Notes:

    Also know as: Odo I, Count of Orléans

    Odo I (French: Eudes; also Hodo, Uodo, or Udo in contemporary Latin; died 25 May 834) was the Count of Orléans (comes Aurelianensium) following the final deposition of Matfrid until his own deposition a few years later.

    He belonged to the Udalriching family and was a son of Adrian,[1] who had also held the county of Orléans, and possibly of Waldrada, a Nibelungid. Odo first appears as an imperial legate to the Eastern Saxons in 810, when he was captured by the Wilzi. In 811, as count (comes), according to the Annales Fuldenses, he signed a peace treaty with the Vikings.

    According to the Vita Hludowici, in 827, he was named to replace the deposed Matfrid in Orléans. Odo, along with Heribert, a relative, possibly his cousin, were exiled in April 830 by Lothair I and Orléans confiscated. Matfrid was reinstated.

    In 834, while fighting Matfrid and Lambert I of Nantes, partisans of Lothair, Odo was killed as were his brothers William, Guy of Maine, and Theodo, abbot of Saint Martin of Tours.

    Odo's wife was Engeltrude de Fézensac.[2] Their eldest daughter, Ermentrude, married Charles the Bald of West Francia. He left a son William who was executed by his own brother-in-law in 866.

    Eudes married de Fézensac, Engeltrude. Engeltrude was born in 799; died in 853. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  de Fézensac, Engeltrude was born in 799; died in 853.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FSID: MVLP-YQQ

    Children:
    1. 1. d'Orléans, Queen Ermentrude was born on 27 Sep 823 in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France; died on 6 Oct 869 in France; was buried after 6 Oct 869 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France.