Bertha de Bardi

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'''Blessed Bertha de Bardi''' (died 24 March 1163) was born in [[Florence]].<ref name="dunbar" /> She was the daughter of [[Lothario di Ugo]], Count of [[Vernio]]; while she is commonly known as [[Bardi family|de Bardi]], some sources speculate that she is more likely to have belonged to the [[Alberti family]].<ref name="dunbar">{{cite book |last1=Dunbar |first1=Agnes Baillie Cunninghame |title=A Dictionary of Saintly Women |date=1904 |publisher=Harvard University |isbn=9780722217290 |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PBgYAAAAYAAJ |access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref>

Bertha joined the [[Vallumbrosan Order]], a branch of the [[Benedictines]], at [[Santa Felicita, Florence]] in 1143.<ref name="dunbar" /> The general of the order, Gualdo Galli, soon sent her to govern and reform a convent [[Cavriglia]] in Valdarno.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Bennett |editor1-first=Judith M |editor2-last=Karras |editor2-first=Ruth Mazzo |title=The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=457}}</ref><ref name="dunbar" /> Bertha remained there until her death, becoming famous for miracles.

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==Sources== * Fedele Soldani, {{lang|it|Vita di S. Berta}}, Florence, 1731. {{Catholic|wstitle=Bertha}}

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