Auda of France

Auda, Aida, Alda, Aldana or Adalne (722 – before 755?) was wife of Frankish nobleman Thierry IV, count of Autun and mother of Saint William of Gellone.

Little is known of her immediate family except that she had two sisters, Hiltrudis and Landrada. Since Hiltrudis is the name of a known daughter of Charles Martel, and a saint's vita of uncertain reliability gives him another daughter named Landrada, this coupled with the fact that Auda's grandson Bernard was referred to by a contemporary as sharing the blood of the Carolingian kings, it has been speculated that Auda too was Martel's daughter.

Marriage and children

She was married to Thierry IV, perhaps a grandson or grand-nephew of Bertrada of Prüm, in 742 and in 750. From this marriage were born:

• Theodoen (d. bef. 826), count of Autun, mentioned in 804, whose son Thierry was active in the 810s.
• Adalhelm
• William, count of Toulouse and founder of the Abbey of Gellone.
• Abba and Berta, mentioned as nuns in 804. One of them was probably married to a Nibelungid, Childebrand II or Nibelung II.