Leudinus

Leudinus Bodo^[1] was a seventh-century bishop of Toul, successor to Eborinus, or Elbonirus.^[2] He was a Benedictine.^[3] He occurs in hagiographies. His feast day is Sept. 11.^[4]

He is traditionally known as the founder of Bodonis Monasterium (the monastery of Bodo), later called Bon-Moutier (Bonmoutier, Bon Moustiers).^[5] Bonmoutier is in the modern Val-et-Châtillon, Vosges.

He is said to have been born around 625, in Bassigny, to Gundoin and Saratrude of the Etichonids, a family of the Austrasian nobility. His sister was Sadalberga, who founded the monastery at Laon.^[6] He founded also the Abbey of Étival (Stivagium, Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Étival^[7]),^[8] dated to 663^[9] and the Abbey of Othonville, and died around 678.^[10]