Rotrude of Trier

Chrotrud († 725, also Hrottrudis ) was the first wife of Charles Martel and grandmother of Charlemagne.

Their children were:

  • Carloman ( Carloman ) ( † 754 )
  • Pippin the Younger ( † 768)
  • Chiltrudis ( Hiltrud ) ( † 754 )
  • Landrada
  • Alda

The wife of Charles Martel

In no contemporary source Chrotrud is named as wife of Charles Martel, the assignment can alone be done indirectly. The Annales mosellani mention the year 725 the death of a Chrotrud ( 725: Chrotrud mortua ), and at this time can only mean in a woman this message that there must be a queen or the wife of one of the first dignitaries of the empire. The fact that on the one Charles Martel in the same year 725 brought the Duke 's niece Svanahilde from Bavaria and then married were already in the 17th century ( Adrien de Valois in 1638 and Jean Mabillon 1703) lead to the assumption that Chrotrud was his wife. That on the other hand the name Rotrud among the descendants of Charles Martel appears more than once ( each a daughter of Charlemagne, Tassilo III. Of Bavaria, Louis the Pious, Lothar I, Charles the Bald and Charles the Simple ) was a further indication of the marriage.

An enumeration in Reichenauer brotherhood book finally gives security: the names of eight deceased men ( Karolus maior, Pippin rex, Karlomannus maior, Karolus imperator, Karlomannus Karolus rex, Pippinus rex, Bernardus rex ), followed by the nine women ( Ruadtraud, Ruadheid, Suanahil regina, Berhta regina, Hilti Kart regina, Fastrat regina, Liutkart regina, Ruadheid [ regina ], Hirminkar regina ), and it is not difficult to determine if one juxtaposes the two groups in two columns that the names in the same order to Carolingians one hand and Carolingian wives on the other hand include, in particular, if the qualification regina, Queen, considered, even if it is not true at Svanahild regina, the wife of Charles Martel from 725. Finally Karolus major domus can be the first man only mean on the list and his wife Svanahild as the third woman in particular that the first is Ruadtrud, also attributed to him.

Origin

The only reference to the family membership Chrotruds results from the information that Wido, lay abbot of Saint- wall groove ( † executed 739 ), a close relative, propinquus, was Charles Martel. Wido, is mentioned in the year 715 as a brother of the Bishop Milo of Trier and Reims, the son of the holy Liutwin. Translated it now propinquus as brother and refers to the connection on Chrotrud enough, it becomes a daughter Liutwins and members of the Widonen. This line of thought was published in 1915 by Anton semi-precious and ever since recorded several times, but is merely a hypothesis.

Swell

  • Annales Mosellani, Georg Heinrich Pertz et al (eds): Scriptores ( in folio ) 16: Annales aevi Suevici. Hannover 1859, p 494 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )
  • Gesta abb. Fontanell. caput 11, Georg Heinrich Pertz et al (eds): Scriptores ( in folio ) 2: Scriptores rerum Sangallensium. Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Carolini. Hannover 1829, pp. 284-285 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )
  • Reichenauer brotherhood book, MGH Libri confrat.
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