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The Rest of the Story: The Ancestors of Sarah May Paddock Otstott
| The Rest of the Story: The Ancestors of Sarah May Paddock Otstott |
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Berthe OF PRÜM (670?-aft721)
| Name: | Berthe OF PRÜM 1 |
| Sex: | Female |
| Father: | Thierry III (654-691) |
| Mother: | Clotilde OF HERISTAL (650-699) |
Individual Events and Attributes
| Birth | 0670 (app) | |
| Occupation | Merovingian Princess | |
| founded | 0721 (age 50-51) | Prüm Abbey |
| Group/Caste Membership | Merovingian Dynasty | |
| Death | aft 0721 (age 50-51) |
Additional Information
| founded | with her son, Caribert of Laon. |
Marriage
| Spouse | (unknown) | |
| Children | Charibert OF LAON ( - ) | |
Individual Note
Bertrada (b. ca. 670 - d. after 721), also called Berthe or Bertree, and perhaps a Merovingian princess, is known to be the mother of Caribert of Laon, with whom she is co-founder and benefactor of the Prüm Abbey. They founded the abbey in 721.
Through Charibert's daughter Bertrada of Laon, wife of Pippin the Younger, Bertrada is the great-grandmother of Charlemagne. Her husband is unknown for certain.
Two alternative solutions to the question of her parentage have been suggested:
She was daughter of the seneschal and Pfalzgraf Hugobert and Irmina of Oeren.
She was daughter of Theuderic III, king of Neustria and Austrasia, and Clotilda of Heristal.
SOURCES:
Maurice Chaume, "Études carolingiennes I: La famille de saint Guillaume de Gellone", in _Annales de Bourgogne_, vol. I (1929), 27-56 who presents the hypothesis that she was daughter of Theuderic (Thierry).2
Sources
| 1 | Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 217, 240A-10. |
| 2 | "Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrada_of_Pr%C3%BCm. |