Saint Sigrade de Verdun

St. Sigrada was a sister of Didon, Bishop of Poitiers 656-670. She and her brother might have been descendants of Senator Ansbertus and of Tonantius Ferreolus, who was Consul of Rome in 453.

She was the mother of St. Léger, Bishop of Autun, and St. Guérin. She was shut up in the monastery of Notre Dame de Soissons by Ebroin, who persecuted her family for their faith in Christ. Her goods were confiscated, and her son, Guérin, was stoned to death. Her other son, St. Léger, was thrown into prison, where he was subjected to cruel conditions.

She died shortly after the martyrdom of her sons.

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANKSMaiordomi.htm#BerswindaMAthicus

Two siblings, parents not known:

• 1. DIDO (-after 673). Bishop of Poitou. … The Passio Leudegarii names "Didone…Pectavi urbe episcopo" as "avunculo" of "Leodegarius urbis Agustedunensis episcopus"[503].
• 2. [sister] . The Chronicon Ebersheimense names "Didone Pictavensi…episcopo" when recording that he was "avunculus" of "sanctum Leudegarium"[504], which would indicate that Leudegar's mother was Dido's sister, assuming that "avunculus" is used in its strict sense of maternal uncle. m ---. Three children:
  • a) LEUDEGAR (-murdered 676).
  • b) GARINUS [Warin] (-murdered 676).
  • c) daughter . m ---. [Two] children:
    • i) [daughter . The sources cited below under Berswinda state that she was "sororem…regina", but it is not known to which queen this may refer. m --- King of the Franks.]
    • ii) BERSWINDA . The Cronica Hohenburgensis records the marriage of "Athicum seu Adalricum" and "Berswindam…filiam sororis sancti Leodegarii, sororem videlicet regina"[511]. The Chronicon Ebersheimense names "Berswindam, filiam sororis Leodegarii episcopi…et Garini comitis Pictavensis, sororem videlicet regina" as the wife of Athicus[512]. m ADALRICUS [Athicus], son of LEUDESIUS maior domus & his wife --

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French Wikipedia

Léger d'Autun or Léodegard (in Latin Leodegarius) is the son of Bodilon von Thurgau and Sigarde of Neustrie, daughter of Ansoud of Neustrie known as of Dijon, who becomes Saint Sigarde.

His mother has as his brother the bishop of Poitiers Dido; and his sister Béreswinthe, wife of Athalric, Duke of Alsace and mother of Saint Odile1.

Léger's brother, Warin/Guérin de Vergyn 1 and Poitiers, is also a powerful lord of Burgondie. Victim of the same Ebroin for the same reasons as Léger, he died as a martyr before his brother 2.

Sources

• http://www.mathematical.com/sigradealsace.html
• http://www.our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p344.h...