Adelbert
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Saint Adelbert (died c. 740), was a Northumbrian missionary and one of St. Willibrord's companions in the preaching of the gospel to the pagan inhabitants of Holland and Frisia. As archdeacon of Utrecht, he was a valuable assistant to his Anglo-Saxon brethren, who esteemed not their lives, so that they might convert more to Christianity.
An obscure saint, he became more known during the tenth century when the West-Frisian count Dirk II converted a nunnery at Egmond (previously founded by his father or grandfather) into an abbey which he dedicated to Adalbert and filled it with monks from Ghent.
[edit] Sources
- Rose, Hugh James [1853] (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary, London: B. Fellowes et al.
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