Didon, bishop of Poitiers

Didon, Bishop of Poitiers (–669)

Member of an important Frankish aristocratic family, uncle of Gaerinus Comes of *Paris, and of *Leodegar (St.Leger).

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.

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Dido (Desiderius) (c. 629–c. 669)[37]

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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References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Poitiers
• Brucker, Pierre-Paul. L'Alsace et l'Eglise au temps du Pape Saint Léon IX (Bruno d'Eguisheim). Tome Premier (Paris, France: Retaux-Bray, 1889) p. 299. Berswinde, born about 1640, married Etichon during the reign of Childeric II (660-673) and their daughter Sainte Odile was born circa 660. Brucker gives a good chronology in the book, and cites the chronicle of Ebersheim and a handwritten notice from the 9th century formerly preserved at the abbey of Saint-Grégoire, and which make Berswinde the niece of Saint Léger d'Autun (sister of Saint Léger was born circa 620 and Berswinde circa 640 or slightly after).
• Jan, Régine Le. "Dido." In The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. : Oxford University Press, 2018. < link >
• Catholic Encyclopedia, Poitiers, Diocese of (PICTAVENSIS), includes the Departments of Vienne and Deux-Sevres, and is suffragan of Bordeaux. “… Didon, bishop about 666 or 668 according to Dom Chamard.”
• St Gregory Armenian Catholic Church. “St. Leger.” Feastday: October 2 615 – 679 < link > Leger was raised at the court of King Clotaire II and by his uncle, Bishop Didon of Poitiers. Leger was made archdeacon by Didon, was ordained, and in about 651, became abbot of Maxentius Abbey, where he introduced the Rule of St. Benedict. … Though the Roman Martyrology calls him Blessed and a martyr, there is doubt among many scholars that he is entitled to those honors.