Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameBertrada of Laon
Birth720, Laon, France
Death12 Jul 783, Paris, France
BurialSaint Denis Basilica, Paris, France
Misc. Notes
Bertrada of Laon, also called Bertha of the Big Foot, (720 – July 12, 783) was a Frankish queen. She was born in Laon, in today's Aisne, France, the daughter of Caribert of Laon and Bertrade of Cologne. She married Pippin III (Pippin the Short) in 740. Of her children with Pippin, two sons and one daughter survived to adulthood; Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman, and Gisela. Charlemagne and Carloman inherited the two halves of their father's kingdom when he died, and Gisela became a nun.

Bertrada lived at the court of her elder son Charles, and according to Einhard their relationship was exellent. She recommended he marry his first wife, a daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius whose name was possibly Gerperga, but he soon divorced her. Einhard claims this was the only episode that ever strained relations between mother and son. Bertrada lived with Charlemagne until her death in 783; the king buried her in Saint Denis Basilica with great honors.
Spouses
Birth714, Jupille, Austrasia (Belgium)
Death24 Sep 768, Paris, France
BurialSaint Denis Basilica, Paris, France
MotherRotrude (Chrotrude) (~690-~724)
Marriage740
ChildrenCharles “Charlemagne” (742-814)
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