Frederuna, Frederonne, or Fridarun ( or ; 887–917) was the queen consort of France by marriage to its king, Charles III the Simple.
She was born in Goslar, Hanover, to Dietrich of Ringelheim, Duke of Saxony, and his wife Gisela of Lotharingia. She was the half-sister of Matilda of Ringelheim, who married Henry the Fowler, King of East Francia, Amalrada, Bia, and a brother, Beuve II, the Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, and the first wife of King Charles III of France, whom she married in 907. She bore Charles six daughters: Ermentrude, Gisela, Frederuna, Adelais, Rotrude and Hildegarde.David Charles Douglas. Time and the hour: some collected papers of David C. Douglas. Eyre Methuen, 1977. p. 138–139 Frederuna died in 917Bernard S. Bachrach & Steven Fanning. The Annals of Flodoard of Reims, 919-966. Volume 9 of Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures. University of Toronto Press, 2004. Chapter 2 (The events in Flodoard's Annals). and she was succeeded as queen consort by Eadgifu of England, a daughter of Edward the Elder in 919.Richard Huscroft. Making England, 796-1042. Routledge, 2018. Chapter 2: Ruling the kingdoms 796-899.
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