Saint Sigrada | |
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Widow | |
Born | Kingdom of Burgundy |
Died | c. 679 AD Soissons, Neustria |
Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church |
Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
Feast | August 8 (Roman Catholicism,[1] Eastern Orthodoxy;[2] August 4 (France)[3]: 73 |
Sigrada of Alsace (French: Sigrade d'Alsace; died c. 679 AD) was a Franco-Burgundian countess and mother of Ss. Warin,[4][5] and Leodegar,[6] and grandmother of St. Leudwinus.[7]
Hagiographies tend not to mention where she was born, but given that she is popularly known as Sigrada of Alsace, she was probably Alsatian.[8] She was from the Syagrii family of Gallo-Roman Patricians. Her brother was Bishop Dido (also called Desiderius) of Poitiers. She married Count Bodilon of Poitiers [it] and gave birth to Warin and Leodegar in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy. Through Warin, who inherited the County of Poitiers, she became the ancestor of the Franco-Lombard dynasty of the Widonids (also called the Lambertiners).
She sent Warin to be educated at the court of Chlothar II,[9] while she arranged for Leodegar to be educated under her brother Dido's tutelage.[4] Leodegar quickly rose to prominence as an archdeacon and priest-monk responsible for a major Benedictine reform. He caught the attention of the nobility and became embroiled in the complex politics of Merovingian partition. His political stances were used as a pretext by his rival Ebroin to begin persecuting him and his family, including Sigrada.[9][5] She was shut up in the monastery of Notre-Dame de Soissons by Ebroin.[2] She had all her property taken away and received a letter describing all the tortures her sons were subjected to.[2] She died shortly after both her sons were martyred.
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