prayer, all virtues reminiscent of biblical women. Issue Ermentrude of Orléans and Charles II, also known as "The Bald", married in 842. Their children were: Judith (born c. 843, died ?), Queen of Wessex by her marriages with Kings Æthelwulf and Æthelbald, Countess of Flanders by her marriage with Margrave Baldwin I Louis II of West Francia, also known as "The Stammerer" (846–879) Charles I of Aquitaine, also known as "The Child" (847–866) Lothar (848–865), monk in 861, became Abbot of Saint-Germain Carloman (849–876) Rotrud (852–912), a nun Ermentrud (854–877), a nun Hildegard (born 856, died ?) Gisela (857–874) Godehilde (864–907) References Sources Mistry, Zubin, ‘Ermentrude’s Consecration (866): Queen-making rites and biblical templates for Carolingian fertility’ Early Medieval Europe 27 (2019), pp. 567-588. Nelson, Janet, Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe (London, 1986). Stafford, Paul, Queens, Concubines and Dowagers: The King’s Wife in the Early Middle Ages (London, 1983). Stone, Rachel and West, Charles (eds.), Hincmar of Rheims: Life and Work (Manchester, 2015). Further reading Hincmar of Rheims, De Ordine Palatii (On the Governance of the Palace) (882), trans. by P.Dutton in Carolingian Civilisation (2nd ed.) (Toronto, 2004), pp.516-532. Sedulius Scottus, On Christian Rulers (trans. by R.W Dyson) (Woodbridge, 2010). |- 823 births 869 deaths Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis Udalriching dynasty Carolingian dynasty Frankish queens consort Women from the Carolingian Empire 9th-century people from West Francia 9th-century French women