Aldruda Frangipane

Aldruda Frangipane, Countess of Bertinoro, (after 1120 – after 1174) was a twelfth-century Roman noblewoman and military leader.

Aldruda is believed to have belonged to the Frangipane family of Rome. She was probably born soon after 1120, but here is no record of her until 1142, when the archbishop of Ravenna, Gualtiero, declared that he was willing to renew the investiture of the castle of Bertinoro to Count Rainerio on condition that he married a Frangipane.[1]

In 1173 she led the forces of Bertinoro in the army that relieved the siege of Ancona by troops of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa under archbishop Christian of Mainz.[1][2] Her participation in the relief of the siege was described by Boncompagno da Signa. Archbishop Eustathius of Thessalonica wrote a panegyric in 1174. There is no further document of her life after the siege.[1]

References
  1. Carluccio Frison (1998). Frangipane, Aldruda (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 50. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed December 2021.
  2. Commire, Anne, ed. (2002). "Aldrude (fl. 1172)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Waterford, Connecticut: Yorkin Publications. ISBN 0-7876-4074-3. Archived from the original on 2017-03-01.
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