Ingerman, Count of Hesbaye
Ingerman (Ingram, Enguerrand) (c. 750-818), was a Frankish noble and Count of Hesbaye, son of a brother of Saint Chrodegang, the Bishop of Metz and therefore grandson of Sigramnus of Hesbaye.
Life
[edit]Ingram came from a high noble family from Haspengouw near Liège. He was a nephew of Chrodegang, Bishop of Metz.
Ingerman married Rotrude, of unknown parentage. Ingerman and Rotrude had one daughter:
- Ermengarde.[1] She married into the Frankish royal family, the Carolingians and was the first wife of King Louis the Pious, Son of Charlemagne.
Primary sources mentioning Ingoram
[edit]There seems to be only one primary source directly mentioning Ingoram.
In a medieval life story of Emperor Louis the Pious, by Thegan of Trier, Louis's wife Ermengarde is said to be a daughter of the noble duke Ingorammus, who was son of a brother of Hruotgangi "sancti pontificis",[2] or in other words Saint Chrodegang.
Chrodegang in turn was named in one medieval record as having parents who were nobles from Hasbania (Hesbaye).[3] Paul the Deacon identified the parents of Chrodegang as Sigram and Landrada.
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Riché, Pierre (1993). The Carolingians: a Family who Forged Europe. Translated by Allen, Michael Idomir. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- The Henry Project - Sigram https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/data/sigra000.htm
- Stewart Baldwin, FASG, Todd A. Farmerie, Peter Stewart (2001), The Henry Project The Ancestors of King Henry II of England: An experiment in a cooperative online database for scholarly medieval genealogy https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/