Notburga of Cologne

Notburga of Cologne (Notburgis) was, according to tradition, a nun at Cologne, and reposed after the year 714. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and commemorated on 31 October.

She is said to have been a niece of Pepin of Herstal. After her uncle's death she accompanied his widow Plectrude to the foundation of Saint Mary at Cologne and entered there. When her relatives pressed her to marry, she prayed earnestly to God to take her as a virgin. Her prayer is said to have been heard, and Notburga died soon after. It is told that when she was laid out, a golden light lay around her head, and a dead man lying beside her woke up.

Her veneration is first attested in 1172, at Saint Mary in the Capitol, and may have arisen from an epitaph found near the collegiate church. Her life was written down in the 13th century. A chronicle of 1499 reports that her relics were then in the Carthusian monastery at Koblenz.