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686–769 · Medieval

Saint Hippolyte of Belley was born in 686 and served as the bishop of Belley. He died in 769.

1000 · Medieval

Saint Hitto von St. Gallen died in 1000. He is recognized as a saint.

900–915 · Medieval · Benedictines

Hoger is a German male name (from Latin Hogerus) and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

1092–1141 · Medieval

Humbeline of Jully (c. 1091 – c. 1136) was a Benedictine nun in 11th-12th century France, who was beatified in the Roman Catholic Church in 1703 by Pope Clement XI.

450–500 · Medieval

Honorata of Pavia (died 11 January 500 in Pavia), sister of Bishop Epiphanius (+496), was a consecrated virgin and Catholic saint. Details of her life come from Ennodius's biography of her brother.

600–600 · Medieval

Saint Honoratus of Amiens (Honoré, sometimes Honorius) (died 16 January ca. 600) was the seventh bishop of Amiens. His feast day is May 16 (Honoratus of Lérins (c. 350 – 429) was Archbishop of Arles). Honoratus was born in Port-le-Grand (Ponthieu) near Amiens to a noble family.

530 · Medieval

Saint Honoratus was born in Samnium and died in Fondi in 530.

550–653 · Medieval · Benedictines

Honorius (died 30 September 653) was a member of the Gregorian mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism in 597 AD who later became Archbishop of Canterbury.

550–600 · Medieval

Honorius of Brescia was born in 550 in Brescia and served as a Catholic priest and bishop. He died in 600 and is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1250 · Medieval

Saint Honoré de Buzançais was born in Buzançais and died in Thénezay in 1250. He is a saint within Catholicism.

450–523 · Medieval

Pope Hormisdas was the bishop of Rome from 20 July 514 to his death on 6 August 523. His papacy was dominated by the Acacian schism, started in 484 by Acacius of Constantinople's efforts to placate the non-Chalcedonians.

501–581 · Medieval

Hospitius (in French, Hospice and anciently Sospis; died 21 May 581) was a French recluse who, according to tradition, had been a monk in his native Egypt towards the beginning of the 6th century.

729 · Medieval

Hovhannes III of Odzun, or Hovhannes III Odznetsi (Armenian: Հովհաննես Գ Օձնեցի; born c. 650, died 728), was Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 717 to 728. He was canonized by that Church.

573 · Medieval

Hovhannès II Gabeghian was a Christian minister and Catholicos of All Armenians from Sasanian Armenia. He died in 573 in Constantinople and is recognized as a saint.

935–968 · Medieval · Benedictines

Hrotsvitha (c. 935–973) was a secular canoness who wrote drama and Christian poetry under the Ottonian dynasty. She was born in Bad Gandersheim to Saxon nobles and entered Gandersheim Abbey as a canoness.

1170–1217 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Hroznata of Ovenec, also known as Croznato (born c. 1160 in Teplá in the Duchy of Bohemia and died July 14, 1217, in Alt-Kinsberg), was a Czech Premonstratensian canon whose cult as a blessed was recognized by Pope Leo XIII on September 16, 1897.

655–727 · Medieval

Hubert of Liège (Latinized: Hubertus) (c. 656 – 30 May 727 A.D.) was a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 A.D. He is a patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers.

1148–1233 · Medieval · Knights Hospitaller

Ugo Canefri (1148 – 8 October 1233), also known as Ugo da Genova, was an Italian crusader and subsequently a health worker. Canefri was born, probably in 1148, into the family of the counts of Canefri: feudal lords of Gamondio (today Castellazzo Bormida), Fresonara and Borgo Rov…

1053–1132 · Medieval · Benedictines

Hugh of Châteauneuf (French: Hugues de Châteauneuf, 1053 – 1 April 1132), also called Hugh of Grenoble, was the Bishop of Grenoble from 1080 to his death. He was a partisan of the Gregorian reform and opposed to the Archbishop of Vienne, later Pope Callixtus II.

1024–1109 · Medieval · Benedictines

Hugh (13 May 1024 – 29 April 1109), sometimes called Hugh the Great or Hugh of Semur, was the Abbot of Cluny from 1049 until his death in 1109. He was one of the most influential leaders of the monastic orders from the Middle Ages.

1093–1164 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Hugues de Fosses (*ca. 1093, Fosses-la-Ville; +10.02.1164, Prémontré) was a Norbertine Abbot and successor of Saint Norbert as the Abbot of Prémontré Abbey, the mother house of the Premonstratensians. The Order and the Catholic Church venerate him as a Blessed.

1135–1200 · Medieval · Carthusian Order

Hugh of Lincoln OCart (c. 1140 – 16 November 1200), also known as Hugh of Avalon, was a Burgundian-born Carthusian monk, bishop of Lincoln in the Kingdom of England, and Catholic saint. His feast is observed by Catholics on 16 November and by Anglicans on 17 November.

1170 · Medieval · Cistercians

Hugh of Noara or of Novara, also known as Ugo of Novara and Hugo of Novara, was a Cistercian monk and a disciple of Bernard of Clairvaux. French by birth, he served as the first abbot of Novara Abbey, Sicily, where he remained until his death in 1170.

730 · Medieval · Benedictines

Hugh of Rouen (died 730) was the son of Duke Drogo of Champagne and his wife Anstrudis. He entered the church and became archbishop of Rouen in 722. Hugh was the grandson of Pepin of Heristal and Plectrude on his father's side, and of Waratton and Ansfledis on his mother's.

1158 · Medieval

Hugh of Marchiennes (Tournai, 1102 or 1103 – Marchiennes, June 11, 1158) was abbot of Marchiennes Abbey from 1148 until his death. Historians qualify him as a blessed. His feast day is June 11.

1120–1194 · Medieval · Cistercians

Hugh (c. 1120–1194) was a Cistercian monk and the fourth abbot of Bonnevaux Abbey from 1166. Hugh was born at Châteauneuf-sur-Isère around 1120 to the pious family that held the castle there. His grandfather, Odilo, became a monk of the Grande Chartreuse.

1320–1373 · Medieval · Order of Friars Minor

Hugolino Magalotti was a Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor, born in 1320. He died in 1373 in Camerino and is recognized as a blessed.

1092–1141 · Medieval · Cistercians

Humbeline of Jully (c. 1091 – c. 1136) was a Benedictine nun in 11th-12th century France, who was beatified in the Roman Catholic Church in 1703 by Pope Clement XI.

680 · Medieval · Benedictines

Humbert of Maroilles (died ca. 680) was a Frankish monk, abbot, and saint. He founded Maroilles Abbey. Humbert was born at Mézières-sur-Oise in the early 7th century. His parents, Evrard and Popita, were of the nobility.

1190–1277 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Humbert of Romans, OP (c. 1190-1200, Romans-sur-Isère – 14 July 1277, Valence, Drôme, France) was a French Dominican friar who served as the fifth Master General of the Order of Preachers from 1254 to 1263. Humbert was born at Romans-sur-Isère around 1194.

800–870 · Medieval

Hunberht or Humberht was a medieval Bishop of Elmham. Hunberht was consecrated by 824. The twelfth-century Annals of St Neots says that he crowned Edmund the Martyr as king at Burna on Christmas Day 856, but no source is known for this statement.

869 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Hunfrid of Prüm (Sanctus Hunfridus in Latin and Saint Humphrey in English) was a ninth-century Frankish-German (East Francia) Benedictine monk at Prüm Abbey in the Eifel region. In 856, Pope Nicholas I promoted a reluctant Hunfrid to Bishop of Thérouanne in Gaul.

679 · Medieval

Hunna (also called Huna and Huva, birth unknown, d. 679), is a saint venerated in the Catholic Church. Born in Alsace in eastern France, she is the patroness of laundresses; her feast day is April 15. She was canonized by Pope Leo X in 1520.

1185–1257 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Hyacinth (Polish: Święty Jacek or Jacek Odrowąż; c. 1185 – 15 August 1257) was a Polish Dominican priest and missionary who worked to reform the women's monasteries in his native Poland. Educated in Paris and Bologna, he was a Doctor of Sacred Studies.

690 · Medieval

Saint Hybald (fl. c. 664 – c. 690), also known as Higbald, Hibald or Hygbald, was a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon saint. His feastdays are 18 September and 14 December (Orthodox).

630–707 · Medieval

Hydulphe, Hydulphus, Hidulphe, Hidulf, commonly known as Hydulphe of Lobbes (French: Hydulphe de Lobbes) was a Frankish saint who helped Saint Landelin establish Lobbes Abbey, Crespin Abbey, and Aulne Abbey. Saint Hydulphe was born in c.

526 · Medieval

Saint Hyvarnion was a bard who died in 526.

516 · Medieval

The Church of St Hywyn, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales, is a parish church dating from the 12th century. Its origins are earlier, as a clas church from the 5th to the 7th centuries.

650–705 · Medieval · Benedictines

Hædde (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester. Hædde is believed to have been born in Headingley, Leeds, and became a monk of Whitby Abbey.

850–909 · Medieval

Venerable Hérifrid was a French prelate born in 850 in Chartres. He served as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auxerre until his death in 909 and is buried at the église Notre-Dame-de-la-Cité d'Auxerre.

500 · Medieval

Ia of Cornwall (also known as Eia, Hia, Ive or Hya) was an evangelist and martyr of the 5th or 6th centuries, flourishing in the area of St Ives, Cornwall. She is said to have been an Irish princess, the sister of Erc of Slane.

445–540 · Medieval

Iarlaithe mac Loga , also known as Jarlath , was an Irish priest and scholar from Connacht, remembered as the founder of the monastic School of Tuam and of the Archdiocese of Tuam, of which he is the patron saint.

500–502 · Medieval

Ibar mac Lugna, whose name is also given as Iberius or Ivor, was an early Irish saint, patron of Beggerin Island, and bishop. The saint is sometimes said to have been one of the "Quattuor sanctissimi Episcopi" ("The four most sacred bishops") said to have preceded Saint Patrick i…

1260 · Medieval · Cistercians

Ida of Leeuw is a saint who was born in Gors-Opleeuw and died around 1260. Ida's parents were Giselbert and Ida of Leeuw. Ida was raised by the beguines in Borgloon and at the age of 13 joined the Cistercian abbey at Rameige (Dutch: Rameien), now known as Jauchelette.

788–825 · Medieval

Saint Ida of Herzfeld (c. 770 – 4 September 825) was the widow of a Saxon duke who devoted her life to the poor following the death of her husband in 811. Her feast day is September 4.

1040–1113 · Medieval · Benedictines

Ida of Lorraine (also referred to as Blessed Ida of Boulogne) (c. 1040 – 13 April 1113) was a saint and noblewoman. She was the daughter of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine and his wife Doda.

1211–1290 · Medieval

Ida of Louvain (died around 1300) was a Cistercian nun of Roosendael Abbey in the 13th-century Low Countries who is officially commemorated in the Catholic Church as blessed. Ida was born into a well-to-do family in Leuven, Duchy of Brabant (now Belgium).

1140–1226 · Medieval

Ida of Toggenburg (c. 1140 – 3 November 1226) (also: Idda, Ita, Itha, Itta, Ydda, Judith and Gutta of Fischingen) is a Swiss Christian nun, venerated as a saint in the Diocese of Constance especially in Fischingen, Switzerland.

1198–1231 · Medieval · Cistercians

Ida of Nivelles (c.1190 – 11 December 1231) was a beatified Cistercian nun and mystic. Ida was born into a prosperous mercantile family in Nivelles, an important market town and pilgrimage destination in Brabant, a short distance to the south of Brussels.

1100–1167 · Medieval · Cistercians

Saint Idesbald (Idesbaldus) (c. 1100–1167) was a Cistercian monk and abbot of Ten Duinen Abbey. As a youth Idesbald was a courtier and page to the Count of Flanders. It is believed that he was related to or proceeded from the noble family of Van der Gracht, lords of Moorsel.