Orleans
Engeltrude
Eudes of
Orléans
Engeltrude was likely the sister of Adalard
the Seneschal, who is mentioned by Nithard as an uncle of Ermentrude.
Nithard’s Histories IV p173 (trans.
Bernhard Walter Scholz, 1970)
Nov. 842
Louis went to Bavaria, and Charles came to Quierzy to take a wife.
… 14 Dec. 842 Charles, as I said before, took a wife,
Hirmentrude, daughter of Odo and Ingeltrud, who was a niece of Adalhard.
Charles’s father in his time had loved this Adalhard so much that he did
anything in his whole empire that Adalhard wanted. Adalhard cared little
for the public good and tried to please everyone. Again and again he
advised Charles’s father to distribute liberties and public property for
private use and, since he knew how to manage it so that everyone got
what he asked for, he ruined the kingdom altogether. This is how he was
easily able at this time to coax the people to do whatever he wanted. It
was for this reason above all that Charles married Hirmentrude, because
he believed that with Adalhard’s help he could win over a large part of
the people to himself. After the wedding had taken place on December 14,
he celebrated Christmas at St.-Quentin. At Valenciennes he decided which
of his vassals would remain to defend the land between the Meuse and the
Seine. He and his wife headed for Aquitaine in the winter of the year of
our Lord 843.
Ermentrude of Orléans
27 September, year unknown
The date is given in a charter by Charles the Bald dated in 862, calling for
a commemoration of the date.
Recueil
des historiens des Gaules et de la France vol 8 p579 (1871)
et
quinto Kal. Octobris, quando ipsa dilectissima nobis conjux nata fuit,
quæ commemoratio convertatur in depositionis ejus diem, quando divina
vocatione ab hac mortalitate migraverit;
This roughly translates as:
and on the
fifth day of the Kalends of October [27 September], when our most
beloved spouse was born, which commemoration is to be converted into the
day of her deposition, when by divine calling she departed from this
mortality;
Eudes of Orléans
Engeltrude
Charles
II "the Bald" on 13 December 842, in Quierzy
The day is given in a charter by Charles the Bald, dated in 862, calling for
a commemoration of the date.
Recueil
des historiens des Gaules et de la France vol 8 p579 (1871)
necnon
et in Idibus Deeembris, quando Deus me dilectam conjugem mecum
Hirmentrudem uxoreo vinculo copulavit
This roughly translates as:
and also on the
Ides of December [13 December], when God has united my beloved spouse,
Hirmentrude, to me in the bond of marriage
Nithard’s Histories IV p173 (trans.
Bernhard Walter Scholz, 1970)
Nov. 842
Louis went to Bavaria, and Charles came to Quierzy to take a wife.
… 14 Dec. 842 Charles, as I said before, took a wife,
Hirmentrude, daughter of Odo and Ingeltrud, who was a niece of Adalhard.
Charles’s father in his time had loved this Adalhard so much that he did
anything in his whole empire that Adalhard wanted. Adalhard cared little
for the public good and tried to please everyone. Again and again he
advised Charles’s father to distribute liberties and public property for
private use and, since he knew how to manage it so that everyone got
what he asked for, he ruined the kingdom altogether. This is how he was
easily able at this time to coax the people to do whatever he wanted. It
was for this reason above all that Charles married Hirmentrude, because
he believed that with Adalhard’s help he could win over a large part of
the people to himself. After the wedding had taken place on December 14,
he celebrated Christmas at St.-Quentin. At Valenciennes he decided which
of his vassals would remain to defend the land between the Meuse and the
Seine. He and his wife headed for Aquitaine in the winter of the year of
our Lord 843.
Ermentrude was crowned empress
in August 866 at Saint-Médard de Soissons. After she was separated
from her husband, she retired to a monastery.
Dvcvm Brabantiae chronica p225 (Adrian van
Baarland, 1600)
CAROLVS
CALVVS … Vxorem habuit nomine Hermentrudis.
Liberi.
Carolomanus Eccleiaſticæ dignitati ſe deuouerat, ſed
eam abdicans coniurauit in Patrem: ſed captus à Patre & excæcatus,
orbitate luminis pœnas luit delicti.
Carolus alter dum nimium tribuit ſuis viribus, prouocat
ad ſingulare certamen Alboinum quendam fortiſſimum Equitem, à quo
vidus occubuit.
Lodouicus Balbus, tertius natu filius.
Lotharius.
Judith filia poſt primas nuptias Adolphi Anglorum,
rapitur à Baldowino Foreſtiero Flandriæ: qui hiſce nuptijs obtinuit à
Patre Carolo reconciliato nomen & inſignia Comitis Flandriæ.
This roughly translates as:
Charles the
Bald, … had a wife named Hermentrude.
Children.
Carloman had devoted himself to the ecclesiastical
dignity, but abdicating it, he conspired against his father: but,
captured by his father and blinded, he suffered the punishment of his
crime by being deprived of light.
Charles, while he attributed too much to his own
strength, provoked a certain very brave knight, Alboin, to a single
combat, by whom he died a widower.
Louis the Stammerer, the third-born son.
Lothair.
Judith, daughter of Adolphus of England, after her first
marriage, was carried off by Baldwin Forester of Flanders: who by this
marriage obtained from his father Charles, having been reconciled, the
name and insignia of Count of Flanders.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edition vol
5 p898 (ed. Hugh Chisholm, 1910)
CHARLES
II. called THE BALD … was succeeded
by his son Louis the Stammerer, the child of Ermentrude, daughter of a
count of Orleans, whom he had married in 842, and who had died in 869.
6 October 869 in the monastery
of St. Denis, Paris, West Francia
Annales Bertiniani p107 (1883)
Karolus
in villa Duciaco 7. Idus Octobris certo [nuntio] comperiens, obisse
Hyrmentrudem uxorem suam 2. Nonas Octobris in monasterio sancti
Dionysii, ubi et sepulta est, exsequente Bosone, filio Buvini quondam
comitis, hoc missaticum apud matrem et materteram suam Teutbergam,
Hlotharii regis relictam, sororem ipsius Bosonis nomine Richildem mox
sibi adduci fecit et in concubinam accepit.
This roughly translates as:
Charles, in the
villa of Duciac on the 7th day of the Ides of October [9 October],
having learned by certain news that his wife Hyrmentrude had died on the
2nd day of Nones of October [6 October] in the monastery of St. Denis,
where she was buried, having executed this mass with his mother and aunt
Teutberga, who had been left by King Chlothar, he soon had Boso's sister
named Richilde brought to him and took her as his concubine.
in the monastery
of St. Denis, Paris, West Francia
Eudes of Orléans
Engeltrude
Count of Orléans
Eudes is described as "the emperor's legate" in 810. He was named count of
Orléans in 828, when count Matfrid was deprived of his honors. From that
time, Eudes and his brother Guillaume were the most powerful supporters of
Emperor Louis "the Pious" against his son Lothaire, whose rebellion was
supported by Matfried.
Miracula sancti Benedicti in Monumenta
Germaniæ Historica SS 15.1 p487 (1887)
[828]
Siquidem Matfrido comite quondam Aurelianensi ob culpam inertiae
propriis honoribus privato, Odo in ejus locum substituitur. Qui
insolentia gravi contra sui naturam elatus, cuncta quae iuri
subjacebant ecclesiae Aurelianensis, matricula excepta, sed et
abbatiam Sanct Aniani, necnon Sancti Benedicti in propriam molitur
redigere potestatem. Quod monachi coenobii Sancti Benedicti cernentes,
consilio inito, misericordiae Domini solius se committentes, maximam
partem suorum fratrum ad praefatum dirigunt comitem nimia insanientem
tyrannide cum pignoribus sanctorum: omnigena supplicantes prece, ne
tantum incurrat piaculum, neve res sacro ordini delegatas ad nefarios
transferat usus, sed magis servos Dei res sibi a Domino traditas
libere liceat ordinare; quae petitio nulli apud eum valuit.
This roughly translates as:
[828] Indeed,
since Matfrid, formerly Count of Aurelian, was deprived of his proper
honors through his indolence, Odo was substituted in his place. He,
exalted by a heavy insolence against his nature, attempted to bring
under his own power all that was subject to the law of the Church of
Aurelian, except the matriculation, but also the abbey of Saint-Anian,
and also that of Saint-Benedict. Seeing this, the monks of the monastery
of Saint-Benedict, having taken counsel, entrusting themselves to the
mercy of the Lord alone, directed the greater part of their brethren to
the aforesaid Count, who was going mad with excessive tyranny with the
pledges of the saints: they all supplicated with prayer that he not only
might incur a penalty, nor might he transfer the things delegated to the
sacred order to wicked uses, but rather that the servants of God might
be permitted to freely order the things entrusted to them by the Lord;
which petition had no effect with him.
Eudes was captured by the Wilzi in 810. In 811 he was a witness to a peace
signed between Charlemagne and the Vikings.
Royal Frankish annals pp92-3 (trans.
Bernhard Walter Scholz, 1970)
810
… that the castle of Hohbuoki on the Elbe, with Odo, the emperor's
envoy, and a garrison of East Saxons, had been captured by the Wilzi
… 811 … The peace announced between the emperor and Hemming, the
king of the Danes, was only sworn on arms because of the severity of the
winter, which closed the road for traveling between the parties. Only
with the return of spring and the opening of the roads, which had been
closed because of harsh frost, did twelve magnates of each party and
people, that is, of Franks and Danes, meet on the River Eider at
Heiligen and confirm the peace by an exchange of oaths according to
their customs. The nobles on the Frankish side were Count Walach, son of
Bernard, Count Burchard, Count Unroch, Count Odo, Count Meginhard, Count
Bernard, Count Egbert, Count Theothari, Count Abo, Count Osdag, and
Count Wigman. On the Danish side there were Hankwin and Angandeo,
Hemming's brothers, and, in addition, other men distinguished among this
people: Osfrid nicknamed Turdimulo, Warstein, Suomi, Urm, another
Osfrid, son of Heiligen, and Osfrid of Schonen, and Hebbi and Aowin.
June 834, in battle
Nithard’s Histories I p135 (trans.
Bernhard Walter Scholz, 1970)
834 At
this time Mathfrid, Lambert, and the others of Lothair’s party were in
the Breton March. Wido and all the men between the Seine and Loire were
dispatched to drive them out. They assembled in a large force. The small
number of Lothair’s men put them at a great disadvantage, but at least
they moved as one man. Wido’s large army made him and his men secure but
quarrelsome and disorganized. No wonder they fled when it came to
battle. Wido was slain as well as Odo, Vivian, Fulbert, and an uncounted
number of the people.24
24. Odo was count of Orléans
Annales Bertiniani p9 (1883)
Eo
etiam tempore in expeoitione, quae contra Lantbertum et Matfridum
aliosque Hlotharii complices directa fuerat, interfecti sunt Odo et
Willelmus, frater eius, ac Fulbertus comites et Theoto monasterii
Sancti Martini abbas et alii quam plures.
This roughly translates as:
At that time also, in the expedition that had
been directed against Lanbert and Matfrid and other accomplices of
Lothair, Odo and William, his brother, and Count Fulbert and Theoto, abbot
of the monastery of Saint Martin, and many others were killed.
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