Ermentrude of Orleans
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Ermentrude of Orléans (823-869), Queen of the West Franks, was the first wife of Charles the Bald, crowned and anointed queen in 866 in a ceremony that helped fix the ritual of Frankish queenship. A patroness of church embroidery famed for her needlework, she bore the king eleven children, and through her son Louis the Stammerer the whole later Carolingian line; and ours; descends.
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*** UPDATE - READ FIRST (15 Sep 2026): the ascent described below as a floor / end of line / note-only HAS SINCE BEEN WIRED - parents (or father) are now in the tree; see the dated layer at the END of this note for the sources, grades and any loops closed. The opening text is kept as audit trail. *** ERMENTRUDE of ORLEANS (c.823-869), queen of Charles the Bald; mother of Judith of Flanders (our line). Her father Odo of Orleans, note-only. Standard well-documented medieval royal genealogy per the cited authorities; contested rungs note-only, not hardened. || FATHER WIRED 14 Sep 2026: ODO, count of Orleans (standard Carolingian prosopography; ES). His wife Engeltrude ~ note-only.