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Rotrude
Rotrude (or sometimes referred to as Hruodrud/Hruodhaid) (775/778 – 6 June 810) was a Frankish princess, the second daughter of Charlemagne from his marriage to Hildegard.
Early life.
Few clear records remain of Rotrude's early life. She was educated in the Palace School by Alcuin, who affectionately calls her Columba in his letters to her. When she was six, her father betrothed her to the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI, whose mother Irene was ruling as regent. The Greeks called
), the eldest son according to Paul the Deacon, who recorded his parentage. His father associated him in the government of Francia and Saxony in 790, and crowned joint King of the Franks at Rome on 25 December 800, but died before his father.
- Rotrude (775 – 6 June 810), named after her paternal great-grandmother. ""Hruodrudem et Bertham et Gislam"" are named daughters of King Charles and Hildegard by Einhard. Angilbert's poem "Ad Pippinum Italiæ regum" names (