ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 2nd of February WELCOME! SAINT ADALBALD OF OSTREVENT Adalbald I. (Adalbert, Adalbard) (d. 652) was the son of Gerberga, daughter of the magister militum Richomer and Gertrude of Hamage (d. 649), who founded a nunnery at Wandignies-Hamage near Douai. He was influenced by Saint Amandus . According to Alban Butler , Adalbald had two brothers, Sigefrid, count of Ponthieu, and Archenald, Mayor of the Palace to Clovis II, son of Dagobert , to whom they were related. His relationship with Merovingian King Dagobert has been proposed to have been through his mother Gerberga, and her sister Bertrude (or perhaps Haldetrude, Clothar's first wife). Adalbald was a leading noble and claimed lordship of Douai. In 630, Adalbald founded Marchiennes Abbey. During a military expedition in Gascony, he met and married Rictrudis of Marchiennes, daughter of Ernoldo, lord of Toulouse, despite the opposition of both ...