Ermentrude de Orléans

  General Notes:

~Emperor Charlemagnes Descendents, vol. II, p. 185

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 148:15, Charles II "the Bald," born at Frankfort-am-Main, 13 Jun 823, died near Mt. Cenis in the Alps, 6 Oct 877, King of the Franks, 840-877, Emperor, 25 Dec 875-877. He married Ermentrude of Orléans, who was born about 830, and died 6 Oct 869, and was the daughter of Odo, Comté de Orléans et Engeltrude. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Ermentrudis was the daughter of Eudes comté d'Orléans and his wife Engeltrudis. She married Charles II "le Chauve" King of the West Franks and son of Emperor Louis I and his wife Judith. "The Annales Bertiniani record the marriage in 842 of "Ermendrud neptem Adalardi comitis" and "Karolus" at "Carisiacum palatium" [Annales Bertiniani II 842]. Nithard names "Hirmentrude, daughter of Odo and Ingiltrud" as wife of Charles [Nithard IV.6, p. 173]. The Obituaire de Notre-Dame de Paris records the death "Non Oct" of "Irmentrudis regina uxor Caroli" [Obituaires de Sens Tome I.1, Obituaire de Notre-Dame de Paris, p. 230].

Ermentrude married Charles II "le Chauve" Carolingien King of the West Franks, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Louis I "the Pious" Carolingien Holy Roman Emperor and Judith of Bavaria, in Dec 842.²⁴⁰ (Charles II "le Chauve" Carolingien King of the West Franks, Holy Roman Emperor was born on 13 Jun 823 in Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia,⁵²⁹ died on 6 Oct 877 in Pass of Mt. Cenis, The Alps, Modena, Italy ^160,529 and was buried in St. Denis Abbey, St. Denis, Paris, Seine, France.)