Eloïsa of Coulombs

Eloïsa of Coulombs (also called Héloïse, Helvise or Helwisa) was a noblewoman, then an enclosed recluse near the Benedictine abbey of Notre-⁠Dame at Coulombs, in the diocese of Chartres in France, who died around 1066. She is honored as a blessed by the Roman Catholic Church and remembered on 11 February.

She married first Viscount Hugh II of Meulan, then Alexander, called Azzelin, and had several children by the second marriage, among them Godfrey, who became abbot of Coulombs. In 1066 the abbey received as an inheritance her properties at Lainville, Lesseville, Montalet-⁠le-⁠Bois, Montreuil-⁠sur-⁠Epte, Meulan and Jambville.

She is sometimes called a saint, by a loose use of language; in charters she appears under the name Helvisa. The parish church of Saint-⁠Chéron at Coulombs keeps her relics in a bust reliquary and shows her in a stained-⁠glass window.

She is honored locally as a blessed, in the West; she lived at the edge between the undivided Church and the time after 1054. No Orthodox synodal canonization is known.