Abbess Theuthild (or Theuthilde, or Thiathildis) was a ninth-century abbess of the important convent of Remiremont in the Vosges. According to Michele Gaillard, Theuthild was responsible for a process of reform at the convent.
Six of her letters survive, showing her correspondence with Emperor Louis the Pious, the Empress Judith and other high-ranking magnates. The letters are copied in a ninth-century manuscript now in Zurich (Zentralbibliothek Rh. 131). In the letter to Louis, Theuthild declared that she and her sisters had performed 800 masses, and sung the psalter a thousand times, for the sake of his soul and the souls of his family.
She is also associated with the compilation of the Liber Memorialis of Remiremont.
Theuthild is thought to have died around 865.
Further reading
- Michel Parisse (1998), La correspondance d'un eveque carolingien: Frothaire de Toul (ca 813-847), avec les lettres de Theuthilde, abbesse de Remiremont
References
- Michele Gaillard, 'Abbes et abbesses comme ressources dans les reformes monastiques en Haute-Lotharingie', in Steven Vanderputten, ed., Abbots and Abbesses as a Human Resource in the Ninth- to Twelfth-Century West (2018), pp. 7-26, at p. 9.
- Frothaire (1998). Parisse, Michel (ed.). La correspondance d'un évêque carolingien (in French). Paris: Publ. de la Sorbonne. ISBN 2859443487. OCLC 468027452.
- Vanderputten, Steven (2018). Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 9781501715945. OCLC 1001363806.