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Doda of Reims

Abbess of Saint Peter's, Reims

Abbess of the monastery of Saint Peter at Reims in France, reputed daughter of a Frankish king.

Feast
April 24old style May 7
Era
unknown

Life

Doda of Reims was abbess of the monastery of Saint Peter at Reims (Saint-⁠Pierre-⁠les-⁠Dames), in France, in the sixth century, and is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 24 April (new style). She is said to have been the daughter of a Frankish king.

Tradition counts her as the daughter of Chlodoric, king of the Ripuarian Franks, and the sister of Munderic, thus a princess of the Ripuarian Franks. The historian Flodoard, however, calls her a niece of Balderic and Beuve, the founders of the monastery, sons of a king Sigebert, so her origin remains unclear. She was the second abbess of the monastery of Reims.

Commemorated the same day April 24