ABSTRACT
The following observations which are offered as a tribute to Patrick draw their inspiration from Jinty Nelson’s trail-blazing article ‘Women at the court of Charlemagne: a case of monstrous regiment?’.1 What I want to do here is first to look at a few poems and what they tell us about the role Charlemagne’s daughters played at court. This will be followed by a glance at the queen’s commitments, and finally a tentative answer to the question why Charlemagne did not want his daughters to marry will be suggested.
