Beuve

Saint Beuve (or Bove or Bova) and her brother Balderic (or Baudry) lived in the 7th century in France. They were reputed to be children of Sigebert I or Sigebert II, king of Austrasia, based on oral tradition recorded by Flodoard, Canon of Reims, three centuries later.^[1] They are also said to be related to King Dagobert, presumably Dagobert I of Austrasia.

Saint Beuve was the first abbess of Saint-Pierre-les-Dames in Reims. In 639, her brother Balderic established the convent for her. She was succeeded as abbess by her niece Dode (or Doda).

Her feast day is April 24.

References

1. In Flodoard, Historia eccclesiæ Remensis, Livre quatrième, chapter XXXVIII. See Christian Settipani, "L'apport de l'onomastique dans l'étude des généalogies carolingiennes", in Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval, Oxford, Linacre College, Unit for Prosopographical Research, coll. Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2000, 310 p. (ISBN 1-900934-01-9), p. 219.

Bibliography

• Vie des Saints et des Bienheureux selon l'ordre du calendrier, vol. 4 (Avril), Librairie Letouzey et Ané, 1946 .
• Christian Settipani, La Préhistoire des Capétiens (Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l'auguste maison de France, vol. 1), ed. Patrick van Kerrebrouck, 1993 (ISBN 2-9501509-3-4).
• Christian Settipani, "L'apport de l'onomastique dans l'étude des généalogies carolingiennes", in Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval, Oxford, Linacre College, Unit for Prosopographical Research, coll. Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2000, 310 p. (ISBN 1-900934-01-9), p. 185-229.