Hathumoda, the daughter of Liudolf of Saxony and Oda Billung whose progeny would establish the first German empire. She became the first abbess of a community of women when she was twelve years old. She spent the rest of her life there, dying on November 29, 874, at the age of thirty-four in the course of an epidemic that swept across northwestern Europe. In spite of her confinement, she made so great an impression on those who knew her that substantial biographies appeared within a few years of her death.
Hathumoda's two sisters Gerberga and Christina also became Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey.
Hathumoda's two sisters Gerberga and Christina also became Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey.
Hathumoda, the daughter of Liudolf of Saxony and Oda Billung whose progeny would establish the first German empire. She became the first abbess of a community of women when she was twelve years old. She spent the rest of her life there, dying on November 29, 874, at the age of thirty-four in the course of an epidemic that swept across northwestern Europe. In spite of her confinement, she made so great an impression on those who knew her that substantial biographies appeared within a few years of her death.
Hathumoda's two sisters Gerberga and Christina also became Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey.
Hathumoda's two sisters Gerberga and Christina also became Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey.
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