Ruothild (daughter of Charlemagne)

[6] Later legend relates that her father gave her a gilt silver reliquary containing a piece of the True Cross.

Her choice of silk suggests familiarity with Orosius' Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, the standard text on the Amazons at the time.

[8] During her abbacy, Ruothild's half-brother, the Emperor Louis the Pious (r. 814–840), granted the smaller convent at Gy-les-Nonains to Faremoutiers to shore up its economic position (and increase his own family's power).

[10] By 842, as a result of the Carolingian civil war, Faremoutiers fell under the rule of Lothar's half-brother, Charles the Bald, and Ruothild requested his confirmation of the convent's properties, which he gave.

[11] Ruothild's year of death is indicated by a note added in the margin of the manuscript Reg.