A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Gertrude (4)

by Agnes B. C. Dunbar

St. Gertrude (4), Dec. 6. + c. 655. Founder and first abbess of Hamaye, on the Scarp, near Douai. She had a daughter, Gerberta, who, when a widow, lived there with her mother. Gerberta was the mother of St. Adalbald, who married St. Rictrude. Gertrude adopted her great-granddaughter, St. Eusebia, and left her the lands and monastery of Hamaye. Mabillon, AA.SS. O.S.B., Sæc. ii. 984, ed. 1669. AA.SS., May 12. Sanderus, Hag. Flandriæ. Le Mire, Fasti Bonqnet, iii. 621.