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/