A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Bertha, (with the large Foot)

BERTHA, (with the large Foot) Daughter of the Count of Laon, Wife of Pepin the Short, King of France, and Mother of Charlemagne, Died 783.

This princess contributed much to put the crown upon the head of her husband. She held a court of ladies, in imitation of that of the peers or lords of the kingdom.

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