Drogo of Champagne

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Drogo (670-708), son of Pepin the Middle and Plectrude, was the duke of Champagne by appointment of his father in 690 and duke of Burgundy from the death of Nordebert in 697. He was the mayor of the palace of Burgundy from 695.

He married Anstrude, the daughter of Ansflede and Waratton, the former mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy, and also the widow of the mayor of the palace Berthar. Their children (four sons) were:

Hugh (d.730), abbot of Fontenelle (now Saint-Wandrille) and Jumièges, archbishop of Rouen, and bishop of Paris and Bayeux
Arnulf (c.690-c.721), duke of Champagne
Godfrey (Gottfried, Godefroid, or Geoffrey)
Pepin

Drogo predeceased his father and left the duchy of Champagne to his second-eldest son Arnulf, as the first born Hugh had entered a monastery. Drogo is buried in Metz in St-Pierre-aux-Nonnains.

Sources

Dictionnaire de Biographie Française. Roman d'Amat and R. Limousin-Lamothe (ed). Paris, 1967.

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