Amalberga of Maubeuge

Saint Amalberga of Maubeuge (also called Amalia or Amelia of Lobbes or Binche) was a Merovingian nun of the seventh century. She is said to have been the daughter of Saint Geremarus, born in Brabant and a niece of Pepin of Landen. Pepin married her against her will to a great lord, Thierry, by whom she had a daughter, afterwards Saint Pharaildis. After her first husband's death Pepin married her to Count Witger, duke of Lorraine. Her biography presents her as the mother of five saints: Pharaildis, Emebert, Reineldis, Ermelindis and Gudula.

Some time after the birth of the youngest child, Gudula, Witger decided to become a Benedictine at Lobbes, and Amalberga joined the Benedictine nuns of Maubeuge. She reposed around 690. Her feast is on 10 July, and the translation of her relics from Lobbes to Binche in the fifteenth century is celebrated on 10 June. She is not to be confused with the virgin Amalberga of Temse, who died in 772. The Orthodox calendar commemorates her on 10 July, as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.