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ST. GUNTILD 857 men fighting a duel She was one of three daughters of St. Theodolind, to each of whpm St. Gregory sent a ring, and sister of Adoald the yonng king. Her father was Theodolind's second husband, Agilnlph, dnke of Turin, and king of the Lombards. She married, first Arioald, prince of Turin, whom the Lombards chose for their king when they drove out Adoald and his mother. A certain Adalulf tried to seduce her. She treated him with such opprobrium that he, to be revenged, accused her to her husband of intending to poison him and give the kingdom to Jason, lord of Etruria. Arioald bound her with chains, and shut her up in a castle. After some time, it .was settled that the case should be referred to the '* Judgment of God" A champion undertook to fight her accuser, and killed him, which proved the innocence of Gundeburga, and she was restored to her place until the death of Arioald. Secondly, she married Harod, who kept her in prison for five years, and then, for fear of the Franks, took her about with him, making a great parade of the honour with which he treated her. She built a church at Pa via in honour of St. John the Baptist. Hader,; Bavaria Sancta. Fredegarius, Chronicon, St Gregory J., lib. xiv. ep. xii. St. Gundelinda. 8th century. Ab- bess of Nidermunster, or Bas Hohen- burg, in Alsace. Niece of Odilia (3). Sister of Eugenia (4). Migne, Die, Sag. St. Gundenes, Jnly 18 (Guddenes, GUDDENS, GUNDENA, GoNDBINEJ, V. M. 203, at Carthage, under Bunnus, pro- consul. Four times put on the rack, torn with nails, kept in prison, slain with a sword. Compare with Gauden- TiA (1). BM. Azevedo, Pantheon, St. Gundrada, or Gondradb, V. 8th and 9th century. Daughter of Ber- nard, son of Charles Martel. Sister of Theodrada, a nun at Soissons, also of SS. Adelard and Wala, abbots of Corbie on the Somme, and founders of New Corbie, or Corvey, in the diocese of Paderbom. St. Ida was their sister or cousin. After the death of their consin- german, Charlemagne, her brothers were suspected of plotting to place on the throne his grandson Bernard, who had been the pupil of Adelard ; and lest their sister Gundrada should assist them, she was imprisoned in the monastery of Ste. Croix, at Poitiers, where in course of time she took the veil and became a saint. She is mentioned in the Life of St. Adelard by St. Pascasius Badbert, one of his monks, and in the Appendix to Saussaye's Mart Oallicanum. Smith and Wace, Christian Biography, " Adal- hard." St. Gundred, or Gunnett. A well at Boach Bock, in Cornwall, is called by her name, and stands near the ruins of a chapel. A leper once lived in the hermitage, apart from his fellow-crea- tures, and was dutifully attended there every day by his daughter Gunnett, or Gundred. Hunt, Popular Bomances of the West of England. St. Gunnett, Gundred. St. Gunthildis, Gtwtild. St. Guntild (1), Oct. 6 or Dec. 8 (Bir.- HILD (2), ClTNOILD, CuNHILT, CuNIOHILDIS, Chunhilt, Qonthilde, SifANCHiLD, per- haps Etnegild 8th century. Patron of Eystadt. Abbess of Strennesheim. She and her daughter St. Bebathgit were among the English nuns whom St.' Bcni- face, archbishop of Mayence and apostle of Germany, fetched from Wimbomo to be mistresses in the schools he estab- lished for his converts. They have been venerated as saints in Thnringia from time immemorial. Guntild had a nephew, St. Lullus, who succeeded St. Boniface as bishop of Mainz. Thuringia Sacra (Frankfort, 1737). Lechner. She is prol^bly the real person on whom is built up the legend of Guntild (2). St. Guntild (2), or Cungild, etc., Sept. 22. The " cow-maid." Patron of Eyestadt, and specially worshipped in the monastery of Plaugkstetten, or Blan- kensteten, and in the villages of Piper- bach, or Biberbach, on the Saltz, and Schambach, near Arensperg. In these villages she is patron of cattle, and offerings are made to her of money, butter, eggs, meat, candles. Masses are said in her honour. At Biberbach a church is dedicated in the names of St. Guntild, virgin, St. Sigismund, king,