Rotrude is a feminine given name of Germanic origin.
Spellings
It has many spelling variants in the primary sources of the early Middle Ages, including:1
- Chrotrud (Annales Mosellani)
- Chrotrudis (Annales Petaviani)
- Hroddrud
- Hrothrud (Annales Laureshamenses)
- Hrottrudis
- Hroderudis
- Hruoddrud (Annales Fuldenses)
- Hruodtrud (Annales Regni Francorum)
- Hurodrud (Vita Karoli Magni)
- Hruothruda (Annales Laurissenses minores)
- Rhodrud
- Rodruda
- Rotrud (Annales Bertiniani)
- Rotrudis
- Ruadruda
- Ruatrudis (Gesta abbatum Fontanellensium)
- Ruodthrud
- Ruodrud (Annales Quedlinburgenses)
- Ruotdrud (Annales Altahenses)
- Ruotrud (Chronicon Moissiacense)
- Rutruda
Theophanes the Confessor records the name in Greek as Erythro, meaning 'red', possibly an attempted translation.2
Notable people
- Rotrude of Hesbaye (died 724), wife of Charles Martel
- Rotrude (died 810), daughter of Charlemagne
- Rotrude (born c. 770), daughter of Tassilo III of Bavaria
- Rotrude (born 800), daughter of Louis the Pious
- Rotrude (fl. 865), daughter of Lothair I
- Rotrude, daughter of Charles the Bald
- Rotrude (born c. 910), daughter of Charles the Simple
References
References
- Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch, Volume 1 (1900), cols. 896–897.
- Turtledove, Harry, ed. (1982). The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1128-3. s.a. 6274.