Iduberga
Iduberga (also: Ida , Itta ; * 592; † May 8, 652 in Nivelles ) is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church .
She was the daughter of an Aquitaine duke. Her husband was Pippin the Elder . Her daughters Gertrud and Begga are also venerated as saints. One son was Grimoald . The assertion in Vita S. Modoaldi (1107) that the bishop of Trier Modoald was Iduberga's brother is now viewed as a later forgery.
After the death of her husband in 640 Iduberga donated the Nivelles Abbey , where she has lived as a nun ever since. She brought relics and books from Rome and "from across the sea". A little later she founded a second monastery in Fosses (today: Fosses-la-Ville ), which was inhabited exclusively by the Irish. After her death, her daughter Gertrud von Nivelles became abbess in Nivelles and gave the monastery to Saint Foillan .
The feast day of Saint Iduberga is May 8th.
literature
- Lexicon for Theology and Church , Vol. 5: Hanover to Karterios, 1960.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Karl Ubl: The Carolingians: Rulers and Empire (= Beck'sche series . Volume 2828 ). CH Beck, 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66176-1 , family tree , p. 15 (128 p., Limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed February 9, 2017]).
- ^ Matthias Werner: Moduald. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 599 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ^ Iduberga von Nivelles in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Iduberga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ida; Itta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saints in the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century or 7th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 652 |
| Place of death | Nivelles |