Theuthild

Abbess Theuthild (or Theuthilde, or Thiathildis) was a ninth-century abbess of the important convent of Remiremont in the Vosges. According to Michele Gaillard, Theuthild was responsible for a process of reform at the convent. ^[1]

Six of her letters survive, showing her correspondence with Emperor Louis the Pious, the Empress Judith and other high-ranking magnates. ^[2] The letters are now copied in a ninth-century manuscript in Zurich (Zentralbibliothek Rh. 131). In the letter to Louis, Theuthild declared that she and her sisters had performed 800 masses, and sung the psalter a thousand times, for the sake of his soul and the souls of his family. ^[3]

She is also associated with the compilation of the Liber Memorialis of Remiremont.

Theuthild is thought to have died around 865.

Further reading

• Michel Parisse (1998), La correspondance d'un eveque carolingien: Frothaire de Toul (ca 813-847), avec les lettres de Theuthilde, abbesse de Remiremont

References

1. Michele Gaillard, 'Abbes et abbesses comme ressources dans les reformes monastiques en Haute-Lotharingie', in Steven Vanderputten, ed., Abbots and Abbesses as a Human Resource in the Ninth- to Twelfth-Century West (2018), pp. 7-26, at p. 9.
2. Frothaire (1998). Parisse, Michel (ed.). La correspondance d'un évêque carolingien (in French). Paris: Publ. de la Sorbonne. ISBN   2859443487. OCLC   468027452.
3. Vanderputten, Steven (2018). Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN   9781501715945. OCLC   1001363806.