 Disgraced, he reluctantly allowed Odilia to live in the monastery, which had no abbess, with a minimal wage under a British nun.Towards the end of his life he was reconciled to her and made her the first abbess of his foundation, handing the abbey over as if it were private property.Through his daughter Adalrich was reconciled to God and as early as the twelfth century was regarded as a saint with a local cult.