Saint Amalberga or Amelia, was born at Brabantrelated. It is not sure whether she was a sister or niece, of the Bollandists. She was married to Witger and became the mother of three saints: Gudila, Reinelda, and Emembertus.
The Norman chroniclers speak of her as having been married twice, 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 becomes 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 July 10.
She died in 690 and is buried beside her husband at the Lobbes monastery. Her relics have been kept in Saint Peter’s abbey church in Ghent, Belgium since 1073. She is known to protect people against arm pain, bruises, and fever.
In art she is represented holding a palm and open book with a crown at her feet, standing on a giant sturgeon or other fish.