Radegund combines the Old German rāt (counsel) and gund (battle). **Saint Radegund (518-587)** was the Thuringian princess and Frankish queen who, after the brutal King Clotaire I had her brother killed, fled the court to found the monastery of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers — among the first major women's monasteries in the West.
Patron saint of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Radegund reduces to eight — the number of Frankish queen-saint.