Berthild was born into one of the most illustrious families in the territory of Soissons, France, during the reign of Dagobert I.
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When Saint Bathildis, the wife of Clovis II, founded the abbey of Chelles, which Saint Clotildis had first instituted near the Marne, she asked Saint Thelchildis to set up a new community there with the most experienced and virtuous nuns of Jouarre to direct the novices in the monastic order.
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