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Saint Chrodoara was a Merovingian noblewoman and traditionally the foundress of the Abbey of Amay now in Belgium.Chrodoara is thought to have been born around the year 560 in Swabia. Sometime before the year 582 she married Bodegisel-Bobo the son of Mummolinus of Soissons. She was widowed around 589. After the death of her husband she moved to Amay and devoted her wealth and her time to the church and works of charity.