Saint Léger (Leodegar) was bishop of Autun in the later 7th century and one of the most prominent political martyrs of Merovingian Francia. His episcopate unfolded amid intense factional conflict, and his execution around 680 transformed him into a saint whose cult spread widely across northern France and, later, into England. Léger’s veneration was shaped less by miracle legend than by memory of unjust suffering, making him an enduring figure in contexts marked by political trauma, dispossession, and later rehabilitation.