Hugh of Champagne

Saint Hugh, Hugh of Champagne, or St Hugh of Rouen (died 730), was the grandson of Pepin of Heristal and Plectrude through their son, Drogo of Champagne,[1] and his wife Anstrude, herself the daughter of Waratton and Ansflede. Both Waratton and Drogo were mayors of the palaces.

For the count of Champagne, see Hugh, Count of Champagne.
"Hugh of Rouen" redirects here. For Hugh, archbishop of Rouen (d. 1164), see Hugh of Amiens.

Life

He was, though still a layman, endowed with Jumièges Abbey. He then entered the monastery of Jumièges in 718 and embraced the religious life under Abbot Cochin.

He became Vicar-General of Metz. In 722, the archdiocese of Rouen fell vacant and Hugh was appointed archbishop. In 723, he accepted charge of Fontenelle Abbey. In 724, he took on the administration, together with his own, of the Dioceses of Paris and Bayeux.[1]

At the end of his life, he retired to his monastery. He died on 9 April 730 at Jumieges and is interred in Notre-Dame. In the ninth century his relics were brought to Aspre in Belgium, to save them from profanation at the hands of the Norman invaders of the North of France. He is regarded as a saint, with a feast day of 9 April.

References
  1. Monks of Ramsgate. “Hugh of Rouen”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 5 September 2013 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Selection of primary sources
  • Gesta Hugonis archiepiscopi Rotomagensis in the Gesta (sanctorum patrum) Fontanellensis coenobii (dated between about 833 and 840), ed. Samuel Löwenfeld. Gesta Abbatum Fontanellensium. MGH Scriptores rer. Germ. 28. Hanover, 1886 (reprinted 1980). 26-8; ed. F. Lohier and J. Laporte. Gesta sanctorum patrum Fontanellensis coenobii. Société de l'histoire de Normandie. Rouen, 1936. 37–43.
  • Another ninth-century Vita, associated with Jumièges, ed. Joseph van der Straeten, "Vie inédite de S. Hugues évêque de Rouen." Analecta Bollandiana 87 (1969): 215–60. Based primarily on Rouen BM 1377 (U 108) f. 135r-150r.
  • Baldric of Dol, Vita S. Hugonis, ed. MPL 166. 1163–72. Available online from the Documenta Catholica Omnia

Secondary sources
  • Urdang, Laurence. Holidays and Anniversaries of the World. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985. ISBN 0-8103-1546-7.
  • Lifshitz, Felice. The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria: Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics, 684-1090. Studies and Texts 122. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1995.
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