Saint Ida of Boulogne

Memorial

• 13 April

Profile

Daughter of Duke Godfrey IV of Lorraine. Descendent of Blessed Charlemagne. Married Count Eustace II of Boulogne at age 17. Mother of Godfrey and Baldwin de Bouillon. Widow. Endowed several monasteries in Picardy (part of modern France). Benedictine oblate.

Born

• 1040

Died

• 1113 of natural causes

Patronage

• widows

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• For All the Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “”. Saints.SQPN.com. April 2012. Web. 24 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com//>