Life
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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