Adalbert of Egmond
{{Short description|Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon missionary}}
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Adalbert of Egmond (also called Æthelberht of Egmond) (died {{circa|710}} in Egmond) was a Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon missionary. He was one of Willibrord's companions in preaching the gospel in Holland and Frisia.
Biography
Adalbert (or Æthelberht) is said to have been born in Northumbria, a member of the Northumbrian royal family.[https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-adelbert/ "Adelbert". New Catholic Dictionary. CatholicSaints.Info. 6 October 2017] According to some sources, Adalbert studied at the Rath Melsigi) in Ireland with Egbert. Around 690 he went to assist Willibrord[https://historiek.net/adalbert-van-egmond/69707/ Lendering, Jonah. "Adalbert van Egmond (†740) – Missionaris in Holland", Historiek, June 25, 2017] (who had also been at Rath Melsigi) in the mission field of Frisia. According to Alcuin's late eighth-century Vita Willibrordi archiepiscopi Traiectensis, they landed near Domburg.[https://www.frisiacoasttrail.com/post/2019/07/19/the-abbey-of-egmond-and-the-rise-of-the-gerulfings Faber, Hans. "The Abbey of Egmond and the rise of the Gerulfings", Frisia Coast Trail, July 19, 2019]
Adelbert became associated particularly with Egmond. He was made Archdeacon of the recently founded See of Utrecht and died at Egmund about A.D. 740.{{cite web|url=http://saints.sqpn.com/book-of-saints-adelbert |title=Blog Archive » Book of Saints – Adelbert |publisher=Saints.SQPN.com |date=2012-05-01 |accessdate=2014-04-24}} He was buried there, and miracles were reported at his tomb, over which a church was built. Adalbert is said to have shielded the settlement of Egmond from pirates by causing a fog to arise along the coast.
Veneration
His continued remembrance rests largely on the foundation of the Benedictine monastery, Egmond Abbey, the first in the country, some two hundred years later by Count Dirk I of West Frisia (or Holland), of which Adalbert was made the patron. The Vita was not commissioned until the 990s, which presumably accounts for its lack of facts. Adalbert's relics were translated to the newly built abbey (initially a nunnery) for veneration. After the Reformation and the destruction of the abbey, they were preserved in Haarlem. The cult was reinstated when the abbey was re-founded in 1935, and the relics were returned there in 1984. The saint's skull, painstakingly restored, is also preserved beneath the high altar. His feast day is 25 June.[https://books.google.com/books?id=_zJJtvK2_KsC&dq=life+of+adalbert+of+Egmond&pg=PA3 Farmer, David. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, 5th Edition Revised, p. 3, Oxford University Press, 2011] {{ISBN|9781156973080}}
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References
- {{Cite Newgenbio |title=Adelbert |volume=1}}
External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081130/http://www.abdijvanegmond.nl/patroon.html Life of Adalbert, website of Egmond Abbey, in Dutch]
- [http://www.ijpelaan.nl/Archief/Kennemerland/Plaats-Egmond-Adelbert.html Detailed consideration of the legend and relics of Adelbert, in Dutch]
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- {{DNB|wstitle=Adalbert (fl.700)|volume=1}}
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Category:Dutch Christian clergy
Category:8th-century Christian saints
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:Burials at Egmond Abbey