Rictrude
Rictrude (Rictrudis, Richtrudis, Richrudis) (c. 614–688) was abbess of Marchiennes Abbey, in Flanders.The main early source for her life is the Vita Rictrudis, commissioned by the abbey, and written in 907 by Hucbald.Adalbard was murdered in obscure circumstances around 652, near Périgueux during a subsequent expedition to Aquitaine, probably by his wife's relatives still bitter about the marriage to an enemy of her people.After her husband's death, Rictrude resisted royal pressure to remarry and retired to Marchiennes Abbey, with her daughters and became abbess.Born around 638, Clotsinda was a younger daughter of Rictrude and Adalbard duke of Douai,[11] In 688, she succeeded her mother as the second abbess of the double monastery of Marchiennes Abbey.