Hugh of Rouen

Saint Hugh of Rouen died on 9 April 730. He was the son of Duke Drogo of Champagne and Anstrudis, a grandson of Pepin of Heristal and Plectrude, and was brought up by his grandmother Ansfled. While still a layman he was endowed with the abbey of Jumièges, which he entered as a monk in 718 under Abbot Cochin. He was then vicar-⁠general of the diocese of Metz. In 722 he was elected archbishop of Rouen, in 723 he took charge of Fontenelle Abbey, and in 724 he took on, together with his own, the administration of the dioceses of Paris and Bayeux. He used the revenues of these sees to promote piety and learning.

Toward the end of his life he retired to Jumièges, where he died as a simple monk, and was buried there. In the ninth century his relics were moved to Haspres to save them from profanation by the Vikings. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 9 April (new style; 22 April in the old style).