Odiarda, Abbess of Faverney

Overview

Title social-status

Abbess

Date of Birth

12th century

Biography

Odiarda, abbess of Faverney, in the diocese of Besançon, which was founded in 722.1 In the twelfth century, it was a Benedictine house. Odiarda worked to reform it, in the face of opposition from some of the sisters and their neighbors who had appropriated some of its possessions, impoverishing the house, which would be joined to a male house (La Chaise-Dieu) in 1133 by Innocent II.

Letters to Odiarda, Abbess of Faverney

A letter from Bernard of Clairvaux, abbot (1132)