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  • AKA: Saint Chrodoara
  • AKA: Oda, abbess of Amay
  • Merovingian noblewoman and traditionally the foundress of the Abbey of Amay

Biography

Sarcophage de Sancta Chrodoara

Sarcophagus of Chrodoara

Oda was born 563 in Swabia and died 611 Amay, Wallonia, Belgium of unspecified causes. She married Bodegisel II der Franken (bef565-) in France.

Chrodoara is thought to have been born around the year 560 in Swabia.[1] She was probably married to Bodegisel-Bobo, the son of Mummolinus of Soissons.[2][3] If so, she was widowed around 589. After the death of her husband she moved to Amay and devoted her wealth and her time to the church and works of charity. She died sometime before the year 634 and was buried in the Church of Saint George in Amay. The church is now called "Saint George and Saint Ode", where Ode or Oda, the name dating from the eleventh century, is identified as Chrodoara.

Ste Ode

St Ode represented on her shrine in the Amay St George and St Ode church (believed to by Chrodoare d'Amay).

1977 Sarcophagus Discovery

In 1977 Chrodoara's sarcophagus was discovered in the choir of the Church of Saint George and Saint Ode. On the cover she is depicted as an abbess holding a staff. However, although she was a patron and benefactor of the abbey she apparently was not an abbess.[4]

The Will of Adalgisel Grimo

The Will of Adalgisel Grimo provides information regarding his family relationships. He mentions that his aunt, whose name is not given, is buried in the church of Saint-George in Amay. In 1977 the gravestone of Saint Chrodoara was found in this church. Chrodoara was married to a duke named Bodegisel II der Franken (bef565-), a member of a north Aquitanian aristocratic family. This helped confirm previous assumptions about the membership of Adalgisel in this family whose members are identifiable by names ending in "-gisil".[5]


Family

Chrodoara is said to be the mother of Bishop Arnulf of Metz (582-640). Some source her as the grandmother of either Hugobert or of his wife Irmina of Oeren, and thus the great-grandmother of Plectrude, wife of Pepin of Herstal, but the evidence is too late to be relied upon.[4]




Children


Offspring of Bodegisel II der Franken (bef565-) and Oda
Name Birth Death Joined with
Arnulf of Metz (582-640) 13 August 582 Liege, Belgium 16 August 640 Lorraine, France Doda von Sachsen (c586-aft612)



Siblings


See Also

References

  1. ^ Freddy Van Daele "La Dame du Sarcophage" published by Alfred Van Daele at Hosdent-sur-Mehaigne in 2012
  2. ^ Stiennon, Jacques (1979). "Le sarcophage de Sancta Chrodoara à Saint-Georges d'Amay: Essai d'interprétation d'une découverte exceptionnelle". Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 123 (1): 10–31. 
  3. ^ Gutierrez, Ricardo (August 7, 1995). "CHRODOARA,LA MEROVINGIENNE D'AMAY". Le Soir. http://archives.lesoir.be/chrodoara-la-merovingienne-d-amay_t-19950807-Z09W02.html. 
  4. ^ a b Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900. Cambridge University Press. 2004. ISBN 0-521-81347-6. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1114673/?site_locale=en_GB. 
  5. ^ Herrmann, 1975, page 78







Footnotes (including sources)

‡ General
  • Abbess of Amay



Cwalbins, Thurstan, MainTour

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