{{Infobox saint | honorific_prefix = Saint | name = Agilberta | birth_date = | death_date = 680 | venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church <br> Antiochian Orthodox Church | beatified_date= | death_place=France | beatified_by= | canonized_date = Pre-congregation | canonized_by = |tradition=Benedictine| feast_day = August 10 }} thumb|300x300px|Jouarre Abbey church '''Agilberta''' (d. 680), also known as '''Aguilberta of Jouarre''' and '''Gilberta of Jouarre''',<ref name="catholicsaints">{{Cite web|date=10 June 2012|title=Saint Agilberta of Jouarre|url=https://catholicsaints.info/saint-agilberta-of-jouarre/|access-date=5 June 2020|publisher=Catholic Saints Info.org|language=en-US}}</ref> is a Benedictine French saint, venerated in both the Roman Catholic Church and Antiochian Orthodox Church.<ref name="catholicorg">{{Cite web|title=St. Agilberta|url=https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1172|access-date=5 June 2020|publisher=Catholic Online|language=en}}</ref><ref name="antiochian">{{Cite web|title=St. Agilberta of Jouarre, France|url=http://ww1.antiochian.org/node/19371|access-date=5 June 2020|publisher=Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America}}</ref> She was a nun<ref name="catholicsaints" /> and the second abbess of the Jouarre Abbey, in the département of Seine-et-Marne. Agilberta was a relative of Ebrigisil and Ado, who founded Jouarre in 660. Her brother, Agilbert, was bishop of Paris. Agilberta's sister, Balda, was Jouarre's third abbess.<ref name="catholicorg" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Sainted Women of the Dark Ages|publisher=Duke University Press|year=1992|isbn=9780822382362|editor-last=McNamara|editor-first=Jo Ann|location=Durham, North Dakota|pages=279|translator-last=McNamara|translator-first=Jo Ann|editor-last2=Halborg|editor-first2=John E.|editor-last3=Whatley|editor-first3=E. Gordon}}</ref><ref name="antiochian" />
Agilberta's feast day is August 10th. She died in 680.<ref name="catholicsaints" /><ref name="antiochian" /> She is buried in the crypt at Jouarre in one of three well-preserved sarcophagi.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bernheimer|first=Richard|date=1938|title=A Sasanian Monument in Merovingian France|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4520931|journal=Ars Islamica|volume=5|issue=2|pages=221–232|jstor=4520931|issn=1939-6406}}</ref> It is of particular interest to scholars because of its stonework following the Roman burial tradition.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Kibler|first1=William W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jkArDwAAQBAJ&dq=St.+Agilberta&pg=PT2572|title=Routledge Revivals: Medieval France (1995): An Encyclopedia|last2=Zinn|first2=Grover A.|date=2017-07-05|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-66565-0|language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.abbayejouarre.org/ Benedictine Abbey Notre Dame de Jouarre] (in French)
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Category:Year of birth unknown Category:680 deaths Category:7th-century Christian saints Category:7th-century Frankish women Category:7th-century Frankish saints Category:7th-century abbesses