Rotrude
775 - 810 (35 år)-
Navn Rotrude Født 775 Kjønn Kvinne Død 6 Jun 810 Person ID I502154 Haslund Sist endret 15 Jul 2019
Far Charlemagne (Karl den store), Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, f. Fra 2 Apr 742 til 2 Apr 748, Frankrike 
, d. 28 Jan 814, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (Alder ~ 71 år) Mor Hildegard of the Vinzgau, f. 758, Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia , d. 30 Apr 783, Thionville, Austrasia (Alder 25 år) Gift Ca 771 Famile ID F500293 Gruppeskjema | Familiediagram
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Notater Rotrude (or sometimes referred to as Hruodrud/Hruodhaid)[1] (775/778 – 6 June 810) was the second daughter of Charlemagne from his marriage to Hildegard.
Few clear records remain of Princess Rotrude's early life. She was educated in the Palace School by Alcuin, who affectionately calls her Columba in his letters to her.[2] When she was six, her father betrothed her toConstantine VI of Byzantium, whose mother Irene was ruling as regent. The Greeks called her Erythro and sent a scholar monk called Elisaeus to educate her in Greek language and manners.[3] However, the alliance fell apart by 786 when she was eleven and Constantine's mother, Irene, broke the engagement in 788.
She had a relationship with Rorgo of Rennes and had one son with him, Louis, Abbot of Saint-Denis (800 – 9 January 867). She never married.
Rotrude eventually became a nun, joining her aunt Gisela, abbess of Chelles. The two women authored a letter to Alcuin of York, who was at Tours at the time, requesting that he write a commentary explaining the Gospel of John.[4] As a result, Alcuin eventually produced his seven-book Commentaria in Iohannem Evangelistam, a more accessible companion to the gospel than St. Augustine's massive and challenging Tractatus in St. John. Commentators have dated the letter to the spring of 800, four years before Alcuin's death and ten before Rotrude's.[5]
In contemporary views of history, most scholars discriminate between the two phases of Rotrude's life. Political histories of her father Charlemagne discuss her as a princess who was potentially a pawn and a woman of questionable morals,[6] while religious histories discuss her as the second nun in the letter from Chelles.
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