Saint Madelberte of Maubeuge (or Machtelberthe; died c. 705) was a 7th-century nun related to the
Merovingian dynasty.
She became abbess of
Maubeuge Abbey
Maubeuge Abbey (french: Abbaye de Maubeuge) was a women's monastery in Maubeuge, in the County of Hainaut, now northern France, close to the modern border with Belgium. It is best known today as the abbey founded by St. Aldegonde, still a popular ...
in the
County of Hainaut
The County of Hainaut (french: Comté de Hainaut; nl, Graafschap Henegouwen; la, comitatus hanoniensis), sometimes spelled Hainault, was a territorial lordship within the medieval Holy Roman Empire that straddled what is now the border of Belg ...
, now in northern France near the Belgian border. She died in 705 or 706.
Life
Madelberte was the daughter of Saint and Saint
Waltrude.
Around 697 she succeeded her aunt, Saint
Aldegonde, and her sister Saint
Aldetrude
Aldetrude (died 696, or 526) was a Christian saint and from 684 was abbess of Maubeuge Abbey
Maubeuge Abbey (french: Abbaye de Maubeuge) was a women's monastery in Maubeuge, in the County of Hainaut, now northern France, close to the modern bor ...
, as abbess of
Maubeuge
Maubeuge (; historical nl, Mabuse or nl, Malbode; pcd, Maubeuche) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
It is situated on both banks of the Sambre (here canalized), east of Valenciennes and about from the Belgian border ...
.
Her feast day is 7 September.
Butler's account
The hagiographer
Alban Butler wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'' (1866),
Notes
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7th-century Frankish saints
7th-century Frankish nobility
705 deaths