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• She was born in the year 720.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Bertrada of Laon, also called Bertha Broadfoot (cf. Latin: Regina pede aucae i.e. the queen with the goose-foot), (between 710 and 727 – June 12, 783, Choisy) was a Frankish queen.
  Biography
  
  She was born in Laon, in today's Aisne, France, daughter of Count Charibert de Laon (Caribert of Laon) and Gisele of Aquitaine. She married Pepin the Short, the son of Charles Martel, the Frankish "Mayor of the Palace", in 740, although the union was not canonically sanctioned until several years later. Eleven years later, in 751, Pepin and Bertrada became King and Queen of the Franks, following Pepin's successful coup against the Frankish Merovingian monarchs.
  
  Bertrada and Pepin are known to have had four children, three sons and one daughter: of these, Charles (Charlemagne), Carloman, and Gisela survived to adulthood, whilst Pepin died in infancy. Charlemagne and Carloman would inherit the two halves of their father's kingdom when he died, and Gisela became a nun.
  
  Some historians credit Bertrada's support for her elder son Charles over her younger son Carloman, and her diplomatic skills, for Charles' early success. [1]Although her influence over him may have diminished in time, she lived at his court, and according to Einhard their relationship was excellent. She recommended him to set aside his legal wife, Himiltrude, and marry Desiderata, a daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius, but he soon divorced her. Einhard claims this was the only episode that ever strained relations between mother and son. Bertrada lived with Charlemagne until her death in 783; the king buried her in Saint Denis Basilica with great honors.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Huwt Pepijn 743/44 volgens de annalen van Prüm, betrouwbaarder dan andere bronnen die verschillende data opgeven. In 753 ondernam paus Stephanus II de reis naar Gallië om de hulp van de koning in te roepen tegen de Lombarden, bij deze gelegenheid werden Pepijn, Berthe en hun twee zonen gezegend op 28 juli 754 in de basiliek van St. Dénis, waarbij door de paus de banvloek werd uitgesproken over een ieder die de macht in het rijk zou grijpen en niet tot hun geslacht behoorde.
  
  Berthe werd nauwelijks meer genoemd tijdens haar huwelijk met Pepijn behalve toen het huwelijk met Pepijn snel verslechterde en in 762 moest de paus Paulus I ingrijpen om Pepijn van een scheiding af te houden, des te meer liet zij zich gelden tijdens de regering van haar zoons door haar sterkr sympathie voor de Lombarden, reden van Karel’s huwelijk met de dochter van de lombardische koning, zij verloor snel invloed toen Karel een ander koers ging varen.

• She died on June 12, 783 in Choisy au Bac, she was 63 years old.
• A child of Charibert Hardrad van Laon and Giselle Comtesse van Frankrijk
• This information was last updated on July 16, 2012.

Household of Betrade van Laon

She is married to Peppijn II "De korte" Martel.

They got married in the year 743, she was 23 years old.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. Irmentrude Irmgard  742-771
2. Karel I De Grote Martel  748-814 
3. Carloman II Martel  751-771 
4. Gisela Martel  757-810

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