Rictrude
Rictrude (Rictrudis, Richtrudis, Richrudis) (c.614-688) was abbess of Marchiennes Abbey, in Flanders. The main early source for her life is the Vita Rictrudis of Hucbald, commissioned by the abbey, and written in 907 by Hucbald.[1].
She was from a noble family in Gascony. She married Adalbald, later murdered. In Hucbald's account, this is shown deliberately as a model marriage[2].
Four of her five children were Clotsindis, her daughter and successor as abbess[3], Adalsindis[4], Eusebia and Maurantius.[5]
She is a Catholic saint, feast day 12 May. All four children are also saints.
References
- Jo Ann McNamara, John E. Halborg, E. Gordon Whatley (1992), Sainted Women of the Dark Ages, pp.195–219
References
- ^ Karine Ugé, The Legend of Saint Rictrude, pp. 283-4, in John Gillingham, Anglo-Norman Studies 23: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2000 (2001)
- ^ Philip Lyndon Reynolds, Marriage in the Western Church (2001), p. 411.
- ^ Matthew Bunson, Stephen Bunson, Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints (2003), p. 214.
- ^ Bunson and Bunson, p. 34.
- ^ http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0512.htm
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