Carloman I
Carloman I, also" Karlmann"( 28 June 751 – 4 December 771) was king of the Franks from 768 until his death in 771.
He was the second surviving son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon and was a younger brother of Charlemagne.
His death allowed Charlemagne to take all of Francia and begin his expansion into other kingdoms.
Charibert of Laon
Charibert( also spelled" Caribert" and" Heribert"), Count of Laon, was the maternal grandfather of Charlemagne.
He was the father of Charles's mother, Bertrada of Laon.
Only his mother is known from contemporary records.
In 721, Charibert signed, with his mother Bertrada of Prüm the foundation act of the Abbey of Prüm.
The same year, also with his mother, he made a donation to the Abbey of Echternach.
By 744, his daughter Bertrada of Laon had married Pippin the Younger, mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy and later king of the Franks.
He died before 762, as stated in an act of his daughter and son-in- law.
Latro of Laon
Saint Latro( literally “ Thief ”)( c. 499 AD — 570 AD) was a Frankish bishop of Laon.
He succeeded his father Saint Genebald as bishop of Laon.
He is alleged to have been conceived while his father was a bishop.
Bertrada of Laon
Bertrada of Laon (born between 710 and 727 – 12 July 783), also known as Bertrada the Younger or Bertha Broadfoot (cf.
Latin:
"Regina pede aucae" i.e. the queen with the goose-foot), was a Frankish queen.
She was the wife of Pepin the Short and the mother of Charlemagne, Carloman and Gisela.
Nicole Aubrey
Nicole Aubrey or Obry was a young married woman, 15 or 16 years of age, who was publicly exorcised in 1566 in the French city of Laon.
Occurring during the French Wars of Religion, the so- called Miracle of Laon was almost immediately seized upon for polemic by proponents of the Counter- Reformation, and it is from those polemics that the account survives.
Bertrada of Prüm
Bertrada (b. ca. 670; d. after 721), also called Berthe or Bertree, is known to be the mother of Charibert of Laon, with whom she is co-founder and benefactor of the Prüm Abbey.
They founded the abbey in 721.
Through Charibert's daughter Bertrada of Laon, wife of Pippin the Short, Bertrada is the great-grandmother of Charlemagne.
The identity of her husband is unknown.
Bertrada and her husband had three children:
Three alternative solutions to the question of her parentage have been suggested:
The last two possibilities are not mutually exclusive.
Martin of Laon
Martin was the count of Laon in the late 7th century.
Pepin the Short
Pepin the Short (c. 714 – 24 September 768) was the King of the Franks from 751 until his death in 768.
He was the first of the Carolingians to become king.
The younger son of the Frankish prince Charles Martel and his wife Rotrude, Pepin's upbringing was distinguished by the ecclesiastical education he had received from the monks of St. Denis.
Succeeding his father as the Mayor of the Palace in 741, Pepin reigned over Francia jointly with his elder brother Carloman.
Pepin ruled in Neustria, Burgundy, and Provence, while his older brother Carloman established himself in Austrasia, Alemannia and Thuringia.
The brothers were active in suppressing revolts led by the Bavarians, Aquitanians, Saxons, and the Alemanni in the early years of their reign.
In 743, they ended the Frankish interregnum by choosing Childeric III, who was to be the last Merovingian monarch, as figurehead king of the Franks.
Being well disposed towards the church and Papacy on account of their ecclesiastical upbringing, Pepin and Carloman continued their father's work in supporting Saint Boniface in reforming the Frankish church, and evangelising the Saxons.
After Carloman, who was an intensely pious man, retired to religious life in 747, Pepin became the sole ruler of the Franks.
He suppressed a revolt led by his half-brother Grifo, and succeeded in becoming the undisputed master of all Francia.
Giving up pretense, Pepin then forced Childeric into a monastery and had himself proclaimed king of the Franks with support of Pope Zachary in 751.
The decision was not supported by all members of the Carolingian family and Pepin had to put down a revolt led by Carloman's son, Drogo, and again by Grifo.
As king, Pepin embarked on an ambitious program to expand his power.
He reformed the legislation of the Franks and continued the ecclesiastical reforms of Boniface.
Pepin also intervened in favour of the Papacy of Stephen II against the Lombards in Italy.
He was able to secure several cities, which he then gave to the Pope as part of the Donation of Pepin.
This formed the legal basis for the Papal States in the Middle Ages.
The Byzantines, keen to make good relations with the growing power of the Frankish empire, gave Pepin the title of Patricius.
In wars of expansion, Pepin conquered Septimania from the Islamic Umayyads, and subjugated the southern realms by repeatedly defeating Waiofar and his Gascon troops, after which the Gascon and Aquitanian lords saw no option but to pledge loyalty to the Franks.
Pepin was, however, troubled by the relentless revolts of the Saxons and the Bavarians.
He campaigned tirelessly in Germany, but the final subjugation of these tribes was left to his successors.
Pepin died in 768 and was succeeded by his sons Charlemagne and Carloman.
Although unquestionably one of the most powerful and successful rulers of his time, Pepin's reign is largely overshadowed by that of his more famous son, Charlemagne.
Waldric
Waldric(" aka" Gaudry, died 1112) was the eighth Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England, from 1103 to 1107.
He was also Bishop of Laon from 1106 to 1112.
He had been a royal chaplain as early as 3 September 1101.
At the battle of Tinchebray( 1106), Orderic Vitalis states," Waldric capellanus regis" captured Robert Curthose, Henry I of England's brother and leader of the opposing forces as Duke of Normandy.
As bishop he was greedy and violent unconventional in his habits and joking, a prodigal spender on himself; he is portrayed in very unflattering terms in the 1115 chronicle" Monodiae" of Guibert of Nogent.
He had Gerard of Quierzy murdered in the very cathedral of Laon.
His election as bishop was contested, he had been hurried into minor orders after the battle and made a canon of Rouen, but it was upheld by Pope Paschal II at the Council of Langres.
He was murdered at Eastertide 1112, in the crypt of Laon Cathedral by citizens of Laon who had set up a commune in the city.
Guibert's account of this event alludes to Isengrin, making it of literary- historical value.
Pardulus of Laon
Pardulus of Laon was bishop of Laon from 847 to 857.
He is known for his participation in theological controversy.
A letter of his to Hincmar of Reims is known.
Pardulus was a deacon of the cathedral of Reims before he became bishop.
He was a bishop elect(" episcopus vocatus") by April 847.
In the early 850s he was an ally of Robert the Strong and on good terms with the king, Charles the Bald, and the queen, Ermentrude.

Question: Which country Bertrada Of Laon's husband is from?