Bertha

Bertha, the name of several famous women in the legendary history of the middle ages.—ST BERTHA, whose day is kept on the 4th July, a Frankish princess who married Æthelbert, king of Kent (560 A.D.), became the means of his conversion, and of the spread of Christianity among the Anglo-Saxons.—In the romances of the Charlemagne cycle, there figures a BERTHA, called also 'Bertrada with the Big Foot,' daughter of Count Charibert of Laon, wife of Pepin the Little, and mother of Charlemagne. Her whole personality is of a mythical nature, and has several of the attributes of the goddess Berchta.—In the romances of the Round Table, the name of a sister of Charlemagne, mother of Roland by Milo d'Anglesis.—Better known is BERTHA, wife of Rudolf II. (937), king of Burgundy beyond Jura, who afterwards married Hugo, king of Italy.