LAON, Bertrada of

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• Relation to Me: 38 GGM
• Name: Bertrada the Younger or Bertha Broadfoot
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 751 and 768; Queen of the Franks

Notes:

Died:
a commune in the Oise department in northern France.

Family/Spouse: PEPIN. (son of MARTEL, Charles and ROTRUDE) was born about 714; died on 24 Sep 768. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Books About: Charlemagne: A Biography
• Differentiator: Charlemagne has been called the "Father of Europe" (Pater Europae),[3] as he united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire.
• Relation to Me: 37 GGF
• _HEIG: When scientists in 1861 opened his tomb, they measured his bones and confirmed Einhard’s account of his height; they estimated that Charles was approximately six feet, five inches tall, much taller than most of the men of his time. Charles as a man was sai
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 9 Oct 768 and 28 Jan 814; King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 10 Jul 774 and 28 Jan 814; King of the Lombards
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 25 Dec 800 and 28 Jan 814; Holy Roman Emperor

Notes:

Charles, the King of the Franks, was the first leader since the fall of the Roman Empire to rule over a united Western Europe, branding his legend and legacy over a geography that would today cover what is now Belgium, Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, and western Germany. Charles’ goal was to unite all the Germanic people into a single Christian kingdom. However, Charlemagne perceived a purpose to Christian living apart from its spiritual benefits; his sense of order realized that people who lived by a uniform code of behavior served the nation better.
Charles the Great reconfigured the map of Western Europe with his military conquests, restored Latin as the language of the educated, and bolstered the Papacy with his armies. He married often and fathered many children, some legitimate, some not; he lived long and, during his lifetime, his Empire flourished. But his heirs could not sustain his greatness -his unification of Western Europe did not last. His legend, however, is eternal. He is such an integral figure in medieval history that, had he not been born, lived, and ruled, the destiny of Europe would have been altered. He is regarded not only as the father of Europe, because he unified the continent from the North Sea to the Mediterranean Sea for the first time since Rome fell, but also as the father of modern France and Germany.

married DE SWABIA, Hildegarde Taliaferro in 771 in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Hildegarde (daughter of VON VINZGAU VON SWABIA VON ALAMANIA, Gerold I Count and VON BAYERN, Emma Duchess of Swabia) was born on 2 Apr 757 in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died on 28 Jan 814 in Metz, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: As the only surviving adult son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's death in 814, a position which he held until his death, save for the period 833–34, during which he was deposed.
• Relation to Me: 36 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: House of Carolingian
• Name: Louis the Pious, also called the Fair, and the Debonaire
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 781 and 840; King of Aquitaine
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 813 and 840; King of the Franks and Co-Emperor (with his father)

Notes:

Charlemsgne was still alive when Pepin died in 810 and Charles the Younger the following year. In 813, Charles summoned Louis from Aquitaine and assembled his nobles from the kingdom. With only one surviving son, Charles crowned Louis, who was thirty-five years old and experienced in governing and war, naming him as co-emperor and co-King of the Franks with a half share of the empire, the rest to be his when his father was gone. Italy, however, was not for Louis, but for Pepin’s illegitimate son.
However, Charlemagne was still alive when Pepin died in 810 and Charles the Younger the following year. In 813, Charles summoned Louis from Aquitaine and assembled his nobles from the kingdom. With only one surviving son, Charles crowned Louis, who was thirty-five years old and experienced in governing and war, naming him as co-emperor and co-King of the Franks with a half share of the empire, the rest to be his when his father was gone. Italy, however, was not for Louis, but for Pepin’s illegitimate son, Bernard.

Died:
Ingelheim, Hessen, Germany

married BAVARIA, Judith ofCierrey, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. Judith (daughter of WELF, Count and HEDWIG) was born on 19 Feb 805 in Altdorf, Eichstatt, Bayern, Germany; died on 19 Apr 843 in Indre, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: HESBAYE, Ermengarde of. Ermengarde (daughter of INGERMAN and Living) was born in 778; died in 818 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Relation to Me: 38 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: King of Italy; King of the Lombards
• Name: Pepin I Carloman

Notes:

Pepin was the second son of Charlemagne by his then-wife Hildegard. He was born Carloman, but was rechristened with the royal name Pepin (also the name of his older half-brother Pepin the Hunchback, and his grandfather Pepin the Short) when he was a young child. He was made "king of Italy" after his father's conquest of the Lombards, in 781, and crowned by Pope Hadrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy.

Family/Spouse: DETOULOUSE DEGELLONE, Bertha Queen of Italy. Bertha was born in 779 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France; died on 11 Mar 805 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Upper Alsace

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• Relation to Me: 35 GGF
• Name: Charles the Bald
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 843 and 877; King of West Francia, King of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 875 and 877; Holy Roman Emperor
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 875 and 877; King of Italy

Notes:

It has been suggested that Charles' nickname was used ironically and not descriptively; i.e. that he was not in fact bald, but rather that he was extremely hairy

II married ORLEANS, Ermentrude of on 13 Dec 842 in Crécy, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France. Ermentrude (daughter of ODO, I and Living) was born on 27 Sep 823 in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France; died on 6 Oct 869. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: AUTUM, Richildis of Metz De. Richildis was born on 27 Sep 850 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died in Jun in Chiemsee, Rosenheim, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Holy Roman Emperor

Notes:

Died:
Peuen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Family/Spouse: TOURS, Ermengarde of. Ermengarde (daughter of TOURS, Hugh of) died on 20 Mar 851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 37 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 810 and 818; King of the Lombards; King of Italy
• Misc: 815; Louis the Pious received reports that some Roman nobles had conspired to murder Pope Leo III, and that he had responded by butchering the ringleaders, Bernard was sent to investigate the matter.

Notes:

Bernard was the illegitimate son of King Pepin of Italy, the second legitimate son of the Emperor Charlemagne. In 810, Pepin died from an illness contracted at a siege of Venice; although Bernard was illegitimate, Charlemagne allowed him to inherit Italy.

Birth:
Vermandois, Normandy, France

Bernard married DE LOAN, Kunigunda in 815 in Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France. Kunigunda was born in 797; died on 15 Oct 865 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]