Ermentrude (French: ''Ermentrude de France''; 875/78–?) was a Princess of France in the Middle Ages, named after her grandmother, Queen

Ermentrude of Orléans Ermentrude of Orléans (27 September 823 – 6 October 869) was the List of Queens and Empresses of France, Queen of the Franks by her marriage to Charles the Bald, Charles II. Queenship The traditional historiography on queenship has create ...

. Ermentrude was a daughter of King

Louis the Stammerer Louis II, known as Louis the Stammerer (french: Louis le Bègue; 1 November 846 – 10 April 879), was the king of Aquitaine and later the king of West Francia. He was the eldest son of Emperor Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans. Louis t ...

and his first wife,

Ansgarde of Burgundy Ansgarde of Burgundy (d. 880/882) was a French queen of Aquitaine, but never of West Francia, the daughter of Hardouin of Burgundy. She secretly married Louis the Stammerer before he was king; her sons became Louis III of France and Carloman II. B ...

,'' Genealogia Arnulfi comitis Flandriae'': "''Karolum quoque postumum et Irmintrudim''" whom he married in 862 with official sanction. Despite having several children together (2 sons, Louis and Carloman and 3 daughters, Giselle, Hildegarde and Ermentrude) with

, Louis had his marriage with Ansgarde annulled, prior to his marriage with

Adelaide of Paris ; c. 850/853 – 10 November 901) was a Frankish queen. She was the second wife of Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia and mother of Charles the Simple. Life Adelaide was daughter of the count palatine Adalard of Paris. She was chosen by Charl ...

in 875. After the death of Louis, the struggle for power in the kingdom probably led to Ermentrude’s marriage to Evrard de Sulichgau, son of

Unroch III of Friuli Unruoch III, Unroch III or (H)unroch III (c. 840 – 874, after 1 July) was the margrave of Friuli from 863 to 874. He was the oldest son of Eberhard of Friuli and Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious, a descendant of Charlemagne. He married A ...

. Ermentrude’s daughter, Cunigunda, first in 909 married

Wigeric of Lotharingia Wigeric or Wideric (german: Wigerich; french: Wigéric or ; died before 923) was a Frankish nobleman and the count of the Bidgau (''pagus Bedensis'') and held the rights of a count within the city of Trier. He received also the advocacy of the Abbe ...

, count of Bidgau and count palatine of Lotharingia, then in 922 married

Ricwin, Count of Verdun Ricwin (Ricuin, Richwin) (died 923), was a Count of Verdun. After the death of Lothar II, the Treaty of Meerssen (August 870) divided Lotharingian territories between Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald. This division allocated ...

(d. 923).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ermentrue, daughter of Louis the Stammerer 870s births Year of birth uncertain Year of death missing Carolingian dynasty French princesses Women from the Carolingian Empire 9th-century French women 9th-century French people Daughters of kings