Bertrada of Laon | |
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![]() Statue of Bertrada by Eugène Oudiné, one of the twenty Reines de France et Femmes illustres in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris | |
Queen consort of the Franks | |
Reign | November 751 - 24 September 768 |
Born | between 710 and 727 Laon, Francia |
Died | Choisy-au-Bac, Francia | 12 July 783
Burial | |
Spouse | Pepin the Short |
Issue | |
Father | Charibert of Laon |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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, plus five other children.