St. Amalberga, otherwise Amelia, was related in some way to Pepin of Landen. Whether she was sister or niece, the Bollandists are not sure. She was married to Witger and became the mother of three saints, Gudila, Reinelda, and Emembertus. The Norman chroniclers speak of her as twice married, which seems to be erroneous. Nor are Pharailda and Ermelende admitted by the Bollandists to have been her children. She and her husband ultimately withdrew from the world, he becoming a monk, and she a nun. There is very great confusion in the records of this saint, and of a virgin who came a century after. To add to the difficulty a third St. Amalberga, also a virgin, appears in the twelfth century. The first two are celebrated simultaneously on 10 July.

She was born at Brabant and died in 690; buried beside her husband at the Lobbes monastery, her relics have been in Saint Peter's abbey church in Ghent, Belgium since 1073.

She protect people against arm pain, against bruises, against fever, arm pain, bruises, fever, Ghent, pain in the arm.

In art she is representing holding a palm and open book; with a crown at her feet; standing on a giant sturgeon or other fish.

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