ERENFRID, COUNT PALATINE

ERENFRID, COUNT PALATINE - 21 MAY

Saints celebrated on the 21st of May

VENERABLE ERENFRID, COUNT PALATINE

A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's
Saints' books,
"Stammenbuch..." (1693)

Venerable Erenfrid (Ehrenfrid, Ezzo, Ezo, Elo), Mathilde and Blessed Richeza (Erenfridus, Mathildis et Richeza) are the most famous members of this nuclear family.

The name Erenfrid is derived from the old German Erinfrid, meaning defender of the honour.

Venerable Erenfrid was a Count Palatine who lived a godly life with his wife Mathilde, who was a daughter of Emperor Otto II. The couple founded the Braunweiler Monastery near Cologne and, after Mathilde's death in A.D. 1025, Erenfrid lived there like a monk and finally, as an 80-year old man, went to his eternal rest.

Erenfrid and Mathilde had ten children, among them a daughter Uichem (Richeza), who was married to the king of Poland, but left him because of adultery.

After her brother Count Palatine Otto died, she went into a monastery in holy sorrow. She too had a monastery built (by Abbot Elio of Braunweiler), which Pope Leo IX approved. Richeza finally died in 1063 (near Saalfeld) and her body was taken to Cologne and buried at the church of Saint Mary. (V. 48)

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 80)

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

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