Everything about Itta totally explained
Saint
Itta (also
Ida, or
Iduberga) (died 652), was the wife of
Pepin of Landen,
mayor of the palace of
Austrasia. Her brother was
Saint Modoald,
bishop of Trier. Her sister was abbess Saint Severa.
On the advice of the missionary bishop
Saint Amand,
bishop of Maastricht, after Pippin's death, she founded the
Benedictine nunnery at
Nivelles, with a monastery under the abbess. She herself entered it and installed as
abbess her daughter
Gertrude, perhaps after resigning the post herself.
She had by Pepin another daughter, Abbess
Begga who married
Ansegisel, son of
Arnulf of Metz. By Begga, she's the grandmother of
Pepin of Herstal and one of the matriarchs of the great
Carolingian family. Her only son was
Grimoald, later mayor of the palace, and father of King
Childebert the Adopted.
Both her daughters were later canonised, as was she. Her feast day is May 8.
Sources
- Alban Butler's Lives of the saints, edited, revised and supplemented by Thurston and Attwater. Christian Classics, Westminster, Maryland.
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