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eleventh of the Twelve Shia Imams

9th century Persian Sufi mystic

Archbishop of Vienne

King of Brittany

Italian noble

thumb|upright|A modern statue of Saint Altfrid at Essen Cathedral

Hathumoda (840 – November 874) was a Saxon noblewoman who became the first abbess of Gandersheim. Her family, the Liudolfings, founded the Gandersheim Abbey, and she was cloistered since childhood. After she died in an epidemic, there was an unsuccessful attempt to promote her as a saint. ==Origin and childhood== Hathumoda was born in 840. Her parents were Count Liudolf of Saxony and the Frankish noblewoman Oda. Hathumoda's family, the Liudolfings, were rich and powerful. Their ancestors had only recently been converted to Christianity, which may explain Hathumoda's name (spelt variously as Ha

general of the Chinese Tang Dynasty

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