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 copied in a ninth-century manuscript now 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
edit- Michel Parisse (1998), La correspondance d'un eveque carolingien: Frothaire de Toul (ca 813-847), avec les lettres de Theuthilde, abbesse de Remiremont
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Frothaire (1998). Parisse, Michel (ed.). La correspondance d'un évêque carolingien (in French). Paris: Publ. de la Sorbonne. ISBN 2859443487. OCLC 468027452.
- ^ 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.