Hugobert
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Hugobert (also Chugoberctus) (ca. d. 697) was named in 693/694 seneschal and apparently in the year of his death in 697 Pfalzgraf to the Merovingian court. He was a grandson of the Dux Theotar, and it is assumed (seminoble) but not proven, that his father was a certain Chugus, who in 617 became mayor of the palace of Austrasia.
It has been disproven that he is one and the same with bishop Hugobert of Liège (German: Lüttich) (701-727), because his wife appears in the records of Echternach in the year 698 as a widow.
It is certain that Hugobert through his daughter Bertrada of Prüm is one of the ancestors Charlemagne.
He was married to Irmina of Oeren (d. December 25, 704/710), who in 697/698, shortly after his death, made possible the founding of the Abbey of Echternach.
Hugobert and Irmina had several daughters, including:
- Plectrude, 691/717 witnessed, the first wife of Pippin of Herstal and founder of the Abbey St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne
- Adela of Pfalzel (b. ca. 660, d. ca. 735) founder of the convent Pfalzel
- Reginlind, whose second marriage after the death of her husband was to the duke Theudebert of Bavaria
- Chrodelind
- Bertrada of Prüm (b. ca. 670, d. after 721), the founder of the Prüm Abbey and mother of count Caribert of Laon, who was father of Bertrada of Laon, who in turn was mother of Charlemagne.
