Frederuna

Frederuna (or Frederonne, Fridarun; Template:Langx or {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}; 887–917) was the queen consort of France by marriage to King Charles III of France.

She was born in Goslar, Hanover to Dietrich Theodorich von Ringelheim, Duke of Saxony and his wife Gisela of Lotharingia. She was the half-sister of Matilda of Ringelheim, who married Henry the Fowler, King of East Francia, Amalrada, Bia, and a brother, Beuve II, the Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and the first wife of King Charles III of France,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> whom she married in 907.<ref name="Bradbury 2007">Template:Cite book</ref> She bore Charles six daughters: Ermentrude, Gisela, Frederuna, Adelais, Rotrude and Hildegarde.<ref>David Charles Douglas. Time and the hour: some collected papers of David C. Douglas. Eyre Methuen, 1977. p. 138–139</ref> Frederuna died in 917<ref>Bernard S. Bachrach & Steven Fanning. The Annals of Flodoard of Reims, 919-966. Volume 9 of Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures. University of Toronto Press, 2004. Chapter 2 (The events in Flodoard's Annals).</ref> and she was succeeded as queen consort by Eadgifu of England, a daughter of Edward the Elder in 919.<ref>Richard Huscroft. Making England, 796-1042. Routledge, 2018. Chapter 2: Ruling the kingdoms 796-899.</ref>

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