Bertrada de Laon

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 190:12, Berthe married Pepin III, the Short and was the daughter of Charibert, count of Laon. Pepin and Berthe were the parents of Charlemagne. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Bertrada "au Grand Pied" was the daughter of Charibert and the wife of Pépin maior domus, son of Charles "Martel" and his first wife Chrothrudis. "The Annales Laurissenses record the marriage in 749 of "Bertradem cognomine Bertam, Cariberti Laudunensis comitis filiam" and "Pippinus" [Annales Laurissenses 749, MGH SS I, p. 136]. "Pippinus rex Francorum" donated property to found Kloster Prüm by charter dated 13 Aug 762 which names "coniux mea Bertrada…genitor suus Heribertus" [DD Kar. 1, 16, p. 21]. The necrology of Argenteuil Priory records the death "IV Id Jul" of "Bertrada regina" [Obituaires de Sens Tome I.1, Prieuré d'Argenteuil, p. 348]."

Bertrada married Pépin "le bref" Carolingien Re des Francs, son of Charles Martel Carolingien "the Hammer" Mayor of the Palace and Rotrud.¹⁶⁰ (Pépin "le bref" Carolingien Re des Francs was born in 714 in Jupille, Austrasia, France,⁴⁹¹ died on 24 Sep 768 in St. Denis-Le-Fermnot, Pairs, Seine, France ⁴⁹¹ and was buried in Église de l'abbaye royale de Saint Denis ⁴⁹¹.)