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WALDETRUDIS

WAMBA

landists (ibid. p. 277), who have also collectedthe passages from other sources bearing on hislife (ibid. pp. 275-77). He was a Frank, bornin the district of Meaux, who began life as asoldier, but becoming enamoured of the monasticexistence, retired to Luxeuil, where in time hebecame abbat. This office he is said to haveheld for forty years, till he died, May 2, 665,when he was buried in the church of St. Martin,by his friend bishop Nicetius, probably Migetiusof Besan£on. His day is May 2. He is said tohave been the founder of the monastery of Grand-val, in the diocese of Basle, and to have been atthe council of Rheims in 625 (Boll. Acta SS. Feb.

iii. 263 ; Gall. Christ, xv. 149), and to have intro-duced the rule of St. Benedict at Luxeuil, whereit was observed side by side with that of Colum-ban (Ceillier, xi. 617 sqq. and authorities therecited). His successor was Vindologus.

[S. A. B.]

WALDETRUDIS, ST. (Waltrude, Vau-trude, Vaudru), Apr. 9, abbess of Mons Cas-trilocus, sister of Sfc. Aldegundis. After herhusband count Madelgarius [Vincentius (1)]had embraced the monastic life at Haumont, she,c. 656, took up her solitary abode in a cell at theabove spot. In course of time other ladies re-sorted to her, and an important convent underher direction arose, around which grew up thecity of Mons, the capital of Hainault. (Boll.Acta SS. 9 Apr. i. 831; Guerin, Les Pet. Boll.

iv. 298; Butler, Apr. 9; other authorities in

Chevalier’s Sources , 2332.) [C. H.]

WALDHERE (Waldheri, Waldiier), thefifth bishop of London, successor of St. Erken-wald ( M.H'. B. 617). His accession to the seeis probably to be referred to the year 693, inwhich case he might be consecrated by arch-bishop Brihtwald as soon as he returned toEngland from Lyons. He was bishop whenSebbi, king of the East Saxons, determinedto retire from the world, about 695; he con-ferred on him the religious habit, and by theking’s special request stayed with him at hisdeath. He also witnessed the miracle whichoccurred at his entombment (Bede, H. E. iv. 11).An interesting letter of Waldhere is extant,addressed to archbishop Brihtwald, and referredwith some probability to the year 705. It con-cerns a projected meeting at Brentford, betweenthe king of Wessex with his witan and therulers of the East Saxons, to settle complaintsabout the protection of West Saxon exiles.Waldhere asks the advice of Brihtwald aboutattending the conference, and adds that he hadabsented himself from a recent meeting betweenKenred, king of Mercia, and his bishops, be-cause he did not know the wishes of the arch-bishop. We learn from it further that, in theyear preceding, the synod of the province haddetermined not to communicate with the WestSaxons because they had not obeyed the arch-bishop’s judgment as to the ordination of bishops,that is, had not divided the great West Saxondiocese. (Haddan and Stubbs, Councils , iii. 274,275; MS. Cotton , Aug. ii. 18.) Waldhere’sdeath must have occurred before the year 716,in which Ingwald, his successor, is present atClovesho ( Councils , &c. iii. 300). His nameoccurs in a charter of Suaebraed, king of theEast Saxons, in which he, with Paegthath, by

consent of Ethelred, king of Mercia, grants anestate at Twickenham to the bishop, datedJune 13,704 (Kemble, C.D. no. 52). The grantto Peterborough by king Ethelred, attested byTheodore and Waldhere (Chr. S. M. H. B. 320;K. C. B. 990), is a forgery of the worst type.

[S.]

WALDIPERT, presbyter. [Philippus(19).]

WALHSTOD (1), a monk of Lindisfarne,who had the privilege of waiting upon Cuthbertduring his last illness at Fame in A.D. 685. Itis said that he was cured by the saint of abodily infirmity under which he had been labour-ing. (Beda, Vita Cuthberti , c. 38.) [J. R-3

WALHSTOD (2) (Ualchstod, Ualiistod,fourth bishop of Hereford (M. H. B. 621). Heis mentioned by Bede (H. E. v. 23) as bishop ofthe peoples who live beyond the Severn to thewest (see also Flor. Wig. M. H. B. 542 ; Sim.Dun.; ib. 657 ; H. Hunt, ib. 726), at the timethe historian closed his work, a.d. 731. AsTorthere, his predecessor, was alive in 727, hisappointment falls within those dates, and hemust have been one of the last bishops con-secrated by archbishop Brihtwald. Cuthbert,his successor at Hereford, was consecrated aboutthe year 736 by Nothelm; Walhstod’s episco-pate must, therefore, have been very short. Hisname does not appear in charters, and his exist-ence would have been known only from Bede’smention of him had not William of Malmesburypreserved the few lines of epitaph in which Cuth-bert commemorated the names of his predecessors( G. P. iv. § 163), and another inscription on across which Walhstod began and Cuthbert him-self completed:—■

“ Haec veneranda crucis Christi veneranda sacrataeCoeperat antistes venerandus nomine WalhstodArgenti atque auri fabricare monilibus amplis.

Sed, quia cuncta cadunt mortalia tempore certo,

Ipse opere in medio moriens e came recessit.

Ast ego successor praefati praesulis ipsePontificis, tribuente Deo, qui munere fungor,

Quique ger<> certum Cudbert de luce vocamen,

Omissum implevi quod ceperat ordine pulchro.”

These lines and the accompanying epitaph are,if genuine, two of the most interesting minorrelics of eighth century history in England,besides charters and councils. [S.]

WALPURGA, abbess. [Walburgis.]

WAMBA, king of Spain, was elected not-withstanding his real or feigned reluctance, onthe day of the death of his predecessor Recces-vinth (Sept. 1, a.d. 672) at Gerticos in theterritory of Salamanca, where Reccesvinth haddied. His anointing (the first instance of theceremony in Spain) was deferred till he reachedToledo nineteen days later, where it was per-formed by bishop QuiRlCUS.

The beginning of his reign was disturbed bya formidable rising in Septimania, probablybecause it, with the eastern part of the penin-sula, had taken no part in the election, headedby Hilderic, Count of Nismes, Gumildus,bishop of Maguelonne, and abbat Ranimir. Are-gius, bishop of Nismes, who refused to join,was handed over in chaius by Hilderic to thecustody of the Franks, while Ranimir was un-

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