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Female
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Birth:
660
Death:
705(Orp-Jauche, Belgium)
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Biography
Alpaida (also Alpaïde, Alpaide, Alphaida, Alpoïde, Elphide, Elfide, Chalpaida; ca. 654 – ca. 714) was a Frankish noblewoman who hailed from the Liège area.She became the mistress of Pippin of Herstal (635 or 640 – 16 December 714) and mother to two sons by him, Charles Martel (Charles the Hammer) (d. 22 October 741) and Childebrand I (678–751).
In the Liber Historiae Francorum and the Continuations of Fredegar she is referred to as Pepin's wife.