Sadalberga

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Saint

Salaberga
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
FeastSeptember 22

Sadalberga (or Salaberga) (c. 605[1] – c. 670) was the daughter of Gundoin, Duke of Alsace and his wife Saretrude. Sadalberga founded the Abbey of St John at Laon. She is the subject of a short hagiography, the Vita Sadalbergae.

Life

Gundoin of Alsace was on close terms with

Waldebert, a Frankish nobleman who later became abbot of Luxeuil. Waldebert would come to guide Sadalberga in her monastic endeavors.[2] According to her anonymous vita, Gundoin had extended hospitality to Waldebert's predecessor, Eustace of Luxeuil upon the Abbot's return from Bavaria, and Eustace had cured the child Sadalberga of blindness.[3] Her brother Leudinus Bodo became Bishop of Toul.[4]

Although she was drawn to religious life, her parents forced her to marry. Her first husband, Richramn, died after two months.[2] Between 629 and 631, Gundoin removed the widowed Sadalberga from her convent of Remiremont and sought to marry her to a courtier of Dagobert I, at the king's insistence.[5] Then she was wed to a nobleman, Blandinus, a close counselor of King Dagobert. She had five children, Saretrude, Ebana, Anstrudis, Eustasius (died in infancy), and Baldwin (Baudoin). Her husband Blandinus and two of her children, Baldwin (feast day October 16) and Anstrudis, became saints. Sadalberga's brother was Leudinus Bodo (d. 670). After some years, she and Blandinus agreed mutually to separate and assume contemplative lives. He became a hermit and she went into a nunnery at Poulangey, accompanied by Anstrudis.

Encouraged by Waldebert, Salaberga founded the abbey of St. John the Baptist at Laon.[6] One of her kinsman had been bishop there, and his successor supported her efforts. She died there c. 670,[7] and was succeeded as abbess by her daughter, Anstrudis.[8]

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Notes

  1. ^ J. A. McNamara, J. E. Halborg, E. G. Whatley, eds. Sainted women of the Dark Ages (Duke University Press, 1992), p. 176.
  2. ^
    ISBN 9781107064591
  3. ^ Alban Butler, Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000), 208.
  4. ^ Goyau, Georges. "Nancy." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 26 November 2021 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ISBN 9781107050655
  6. ^ Laux, John Joseph. The Life and Witings of Saint Columban, Dolphin Press, 1914, p. 234Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. ^ Jamie Kreiner, The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (Cambridge, 2014), p. 189.
  8. ISBN 9789004117341

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Nancy". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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