Bertrada of Prüm

Who was Bertrada of Prüm?

Bertrada, 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 Short, 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.