Bertrada Offers A Crown To Her Son

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In the year 741, a young girl called Bertrada lived in a splendid villa in Laon. She was also called Bertha of the Big Foot, because she had a foot larger than the other. She was daughter of count Caribert of Laon and famous for her beauty.

In this year, she was to be about fifteen years old. One day, intrigued by the small size of a visitor whom her father accepted with the most respect, she learned that he was the mayor of the Palate: Pippin the Short (born in the year 714 in Liège, Belgium and called "the Short" because of his small size).

The mayor of the Palate was to some extent a Prime Minister and had considerable power. Pippin the Short was more powerful than the king Childeric III. Indeed, the dynasty of Merovingians died out and the king did only have the name and the function without having the power.

As soon as he met Bertrada, Pippin decided she will become his mistress and he left the count Caribert with his daughter. The count ignored his daughter would become Queen of the Franks. Nine months later, in the year 742, was born a son called Charles who will be known under the name of Charlemagne.

Bertrada was ambitious and wished another function for her son than mayor of the Palate. For any statement, she dreamed to see him become the king of Franks. With this intention, it was necessary that Charles became legitimate and that Pippin seized the crown. She thus spoke about it to Pippin. He approved the idea and repudiated his first wife and married Bertrade in the year 749.

Then, Pippin consulted the pope in order to obtain the authorization to deposit the current King. The response of Zacharie was "the king is who has the reality of the power". Childéric III was mowed and locked up in a convent and Pippin was elected as King of the Franks.

Pippin and Bertrada were anointed in the year 752 by Saint Boniface. This ceremony raised their prestige and made Pippin and Bertrada truths representatives of God. A second anointing was done in the year 754 by the pope in person, in the Saint-Denis basilica, which also included Pippin's hires: Charles and Carloman.

During the reign of Pippin the Short, Bertrada has been very active: to get out difficulties of the state and military actions.

Pippin died in the year 768 and the kingdom was divided between his two sons according to the habit. In order to interfer with Carloman which, being judged injured at the time of the division of the kingdom, was allied with Desiderius, King of the Lombards, Bertrada went to Pavia where she negotiated the marriage of Charles and Desiree of Lombardy, and also that of her own daughter with the son of Desiderius.

Drawn aside from the state activities by Charles after Carloman's death, Bertrada left political life and went in Oise where she died in the year 783.

She was buried in Saint-Denis, close to her husband.

Without the love of Pippin and Bertrada, Charlemagne had never been born and France perhaps would never have existed.