Rotrude.

About Rotrude

Rotruda was the daughter of the Emperor Lothair I and Empress Ermengarde. She was baptized sometime between 837 and 839. An account of her baptism is provided by a participant, Andreas Agnellus, who assisted Archbishop George of Ravenna. According to him, George paid Lothair for the privilege of sponsoring Rotruda as godfather at her baptism and becoming Lothair's compater, a spiritual co-father connected to the emperor by reciprocal obligations. The ceremony took place in San Michele Maggiore in Pavia and the baptismal vestments were purchased from the royal palace. Agnellus describes how Georgereceived the daughter of the said emperor, by the name of Rotruda, whom he handed to me, and with my hands I clothed her and decorated her feet with shoes ornate with gold and jacinth, and afterward he celebrated mass for the emperor. Likewise, the Empress Ermengard, attended by her maids, wearing a shining robe, surrounded by a gold fringe, hair bound with fillets, with blue gems, her face veiled, her appearance dripping with sard, emeralds, and gold.