Adalhelm of Autun was a Frankish nobleman of the 8th and 9th centuries from the Wilhelmid family, son of
Thierry IV
Thierry IV, or Theoderic IV ( 770–793Bouchard, ''Those of My Blood'', p. 184), was a Frankish noble and royal '' missus''.
Thierry's parentage is not directly attested. Speculation about how his grandson Bernard of Septimania came to be descri ...
and the Carolingian
Alda.
He was called as a witness in the charters of the foundation of the abbey of Gellone by his brother
William
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conq ...
, 15 December 804. Two other brothers signed these charters:
Theodoen and a Thierry who is not mentioned in any charters.
That is the only ascertainable information about Adalhelm himself. On the basis of onomastics, two children have been assigned to him:
*Waldrada, wife of
Adrian, Count of Orléans, count palatine of the
Agilolfing family, brother of
Hildegard
Hildegard is a female name derived from the Old High German ''hild'' ('war' or 'battle') and ''gard'' ('enclosure' or 'yard'), and means 'battle enclosure'. Variant spellings include: Hildegarde; the Polish language, Polish, Portuguese language, P ...
, wife of
Charlemagne
Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Em ...
.
*Bernard I , count of Poitiers in 815 and in 825.
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Medieval French nobility
8th-century births
Nobility of the Carolingian Empire
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown