Plectrude or Plectrudis (d.717) was the wife of Pepin of Heristal, the mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks, from about 670. She was the daughter of Hugobert, seneschal of Clovis IV, and Irmina d'Oeren. Events March 25 - Leo III usurps the throne of Byzantium August 15 - Muslama begins the Second Arab siege of Constantinople. ... Pippin of Herstal ( Pépin), also known as Pippin the Middle, (b. ... Mayor of the Palace was an early medieval title and office, also known by the Latin name, maior domus or majordomo, used most notably in the Frankish kingdoms in the 7th and 8th centuries. ... Events On the death of his brother Clotaire, Childeric II becomes king of all of the Frankish kingdoms -- Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy. ... A seneschal was an officer in the houses of important nobles in the Middle Ages. ... Clovis IV, son of Theuderic III, was born in 682 AD and died in 695. ...

She brought a large amount of property to the Arnulfing house and this probably helped to save Pepin in his warmaking with the Neustrians. She tried to assure that her grandchildren (for both her sons by Pepin predeceased him) would inherit and she got Pepin's assent that Theudoald should be his main heir. When Pepin died soon therafter, she imprisoned his dangerous bastard son Charles Martel in Cologne. Charles escaped and soon established himself over all the Franks. He forced Plectrude to recognise his rights in 717 and he she died later that year in Cologne, where she is buried. The Pippinids or Arnulfings are the members of a family of Frankish nobles whose select scions served as major-domos, de facto rulers, of the Frankish kingdoms of Neustra and Austrasia that were nominally ruled by the Merovingians. ... Neustria & Austrasia The territory of Neustria originated in A.D. 511, made up of the regions from Aquitaine to the northern seacoast approximating most of the north of present-day France. ... Theudoald or Theodald was the mayor of the palace of Neustria, briefly in 714, after the death of his father, Grimoald II. He was illegitimate, but his grandmother Plectrude tried anyway to have him recognised by Pepin of Heristal as the legitimate heir to all the Pippinid lands instead of... Charles Martel (or Charles the Hammer) (August 23, 686 – October 22, 741) was born in Herstal, in what is now Wallonia, Belgium, the illegitimate son of Pippin the Middle (635 or 640 – December 16, 714) and his concubine Alpaida (or Chalpaida). ... Cologne (German: ▶ (help· info) [kœln]; Kölsch: Kölle) is Germanys fourth largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. ... The Franks or the Frankish people were one of several west Germanic federations. ...

Her sons by Pepin were:

• Drogo, duke of Champagne
• Grimoald, mayor of the palace of Neustria