Talk:Adalbert of Egmond

Doublet
There appears to be a doublet or alternative version of this article under the odd title Levita Adalbert (as if Levita were his first name ?). I'll redirect and for the time being, transfer the text of the article here. Feel free to merge, but I must stress that neither article is based on sources after the 19th century, though this one looks more up-to-date (and longer). For what it's worth, a quick Google search turned up these sources:


 * Costambeys, Marios. "Adalbert  (supp. fl. early 8th cent.)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. September, 2004.  (always recommended)
 * Acta Sanctorum, June 7 (Antwerp, 1709), 94–110. Probably includes the (only?) edition of the tenth-century vita.
 * Levison, W. "Wilhelm Procurator von Egmond." Neues Archiv 40 (1916): 793–804.
 * Andriessen, P. Sint Adelbert, patroon von Egmond (1964).

Regards, Cavila (talk) 08:15, 25 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll 'fess up to adding the duplicate, which is an attributed cut & paste from the DNB. Agreed that the ODNB is a preferable source. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:15, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

  Levita Adalbert

Levita Adalbert or Diaconus (fl. 700) was an early English saint. He is said to have been the first archdeacon of Utrecht, and to have been despatched by Willibrord to preach the gospel in Kennemaria (702), where he built a church at Egmont, near Alkmaar, in North Holland. He was known as the contemporary of St. Willibrord (658–738) and his fellow-worker in the conversion of the Frisians.

The Lives written for Adalbart
This Adalbert was patron saint of Egmont, where his faithful worshipper, Dirk I, Count of Holland (c. 922), erected a shrine for his relics. At the bidding of Egbert, archbishop of Treves and grandson of Theodoric I, who believed himself to have been cured of a fever by this saint's intercession, certain monachi Mediolacenses (Metloch, near Saarbrück, in the diocese of Treves) drew up in the tenth century a life of Adalbert. This life, together with another account written by a monk at Egmont in the twelfth century, is the chief authority on this subject.

Familly
According to all accounts Adalbert was of noble birth, and it is not improbable that he was the grandson of Oswald, king of Deira, who died in 642. For Marcellinus (who claims to have himself been one of the above-mentioned twelve), in his Life of St. Swidbert, calls Adalbert's father Edelbaldus filius Oswaldi regis, and we know from Bede that Oswald did leave a son called Œthelwald (variously written Edilwald, Adilwald or Oidilwald), who, for a short time, reigned over Deira till he played the traitor to Oswiu, and lost his kingdom with the overthrow of Penda (655).

St. Willibrord and the conversion of the Frisians
According to the tenth-century hagiographer, a certain English priest named Egbert, being divinely forbidden to undertake a personal mission among the heathen of North Germany, despatched Willibrord, Adalbert, and ten others in his stead.

Adalbert, if a son of Œthelwald, might well enough have been a contemporary of St. Willibrord (658–738). Following the same authority we find Adalbert's name occurring among a list of preachers despatched into various districts of West Germany by order of the council of Utrecht (702), with Egmont specially mentioned as the scene of his labours. But the whole question is involved in doubt, as this Vita Swiberti, if not a complete forgery, is extremely incorrect, and has been subject to large interpolations. The Bollandist fathers refuse to give it any credit; but Le Cointe (iv. 204) allows that it may contain a substratum of truth, and follows it, though with some hesitation.

Writings?
Tanner mentions certain Epistolæ of Adalbert's as still extant, and the Epistola ad Herimannum (see Adalbert of Spalding) has also been, without authority, assigned to this author.

Legacy and commemoration
The abbey of Egmont, dedicated to the memory of this saint, was long a most important institution until it was utterly destroyed by the Spaniards at the siege of Alkmaar. However, even so late as 1709, when the Bollandist fathers drew up their account of St. Adalbert, the villagers of Egmont and the neighbourhood still kept 25 June sacred to the memory of their patron saint. Other authorities assign a somewhat different date (c. 740) to the subject of this article, and this has led to his life appearing twice in Dr. Smith's Dictionary of Christian Biography (i. 32). The date of his death is given by the Bollandist Le Cointe as 25 June 705.

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