Saint Radegund (ca. 520-587). Princess of Thuringia and queen of the Franks by her marriage to Clothar I (498-561). Radegund receiving the habit and being consecrated a deaconess by Medard (456-545), bishop of Noyon, when she left her husband King Clothar in order to enter the religious life. Facsimile after an engraving from "The History and Chronicle of Clotaire", 1513. "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a lEpoque de la Renaissance". Paris, 1877.