daughter of Saint Leudwinus.

However, in Settipani's Addendum to the Ancestors of Charlemagne, he returns to this problem, reflecting thoughts of the medieval history professor Richard Gerberding, who believed that Rotrude's background was related directly to the Robertians. He noted that Charles Martel had three wives and that Wido may be a relative of the other two.

Settipani concludes that Rotrude was the daughter of Lambert, Count of Hesbaye,

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