Roswitha

Saint Roswitha of Liesborn was the first abbess of the monastery of Liesborn, founded about the year 815, and is a saint of the Catholic Church. She was born in the eighth century and fell asleep on 29 April, in an unknown year of the ninth century.

All the necrologies and similar sources around the monastery name her as the first abbess, and that first statement is probably correct. She is also called a sister of Charlemagne, but this is disputed: nothing is known of a sister of the emperor with this name. She may have been the sister of Count Bardo and the widow of Liudolf of the Ekbertine family. She is buried in the monastery church; her tomb probably lay in a place where a chapel with an altar of the Mother of God was later built. The Catholic Church venerates her as a saint, on 29 April, by the Western calendar.