[3] Oda's mother, Aeda,[4] may have been the abbess of the Herford Abbey, the oldest women's monastery in Saxony.
[3] Liudolf and Oda decided to found a new religious community for women on their allodial lands at Gandersheim,[1] with Hathumoda as its abbess, and they travelled to Rome to gain Pope Sergius II's permission.
[1] The monk and historian Rudolf of Fulda contacted Hathumoda sometime after 852, sending her a dedicated copy of his biography of Saint Leoba.
[7] An epidemic struck northwestern Europe in 874, claiming the lives of nearly a third of the population of Gaul and Germany, according to Rudolf of Fulda.
[7] Her first biographer states that Hathumoda displayed prophecy and experienced visions of heaven during her prolonged struggle with the illness.
[13] Hathumoda's family established a royal dynasty in the 10th century when her nephew Henry the Fowler became king of Germany.
[15] Henry's wife, Matilda of Ringelheim, appears to have attempted to suppress the memory of Hathumoda, Oda, Gerberga, and Christina.