{{short description|Frankish saint}} {{Infobox saint | | name = Aldetrude | birth_name =Aldetrude | honorific_prefix = Saint | image = Waltraud Waudru.jpg | issue = | noble family = | birth_date = | birth_place = Pagus of Hainoensis, Austrasia, Francia | death_date = {{c.}} 696 | death_place =Maubeuge, Pagus of Hainoensis, Austrasia, Francia |feast_day=25 February |venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church |imagesize= |caption= |titles= |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }} '''Aldetrude''' (died {{circa}} 696,<ref name="omnium" /> or 526<ref name="watkins" />) was a Christian saint and from 684 was abbess of Maubeuge Abbey in the County of Hainault, now in northern France. She is also known as '''Aldetrude de Maubeuge''', '''Aldetrude of Maubod''', '''Aldetrudis''' and '''Adeltrude'''.<ref name="watkins" /><ref name="cathsaints">{{cite web | url=http://catholicsaints.info/saint-aldetrudis/ | website=Catholicsaints.info | title=Saint Aldetrudis | accessdate=30 July 2016}}</ref><ref name="butler">{{cite book|title=Butler's Lives of the Saints: vol 4 | isbn= 9780860122531 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaqWAEry-wkC&q=aldetrude&pg=PA66 | page=67 | accessdate=30 July 2016 | last1= Butler | first1= Alban | last2= Burns | first2= Paul | date= January 1999 | publisher= A&C Black }}</ref><ref name="omnium">{{cite web|title=Saint Aldetrude of Malbod, February 25|url=http://omniumsanctorumhiberniae.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/saint-aldetrude-of-malbod-february-25.html|website=Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae|accessdate=30 July 2016|archive-date=16 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816011441/http://omniumsanctorumhiberniae.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/saint-aldetrude-of-malbod-february-25.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She was one of the four children of Saint Waltrude, also known as Waldetrude, and Saint Vincent Madelgarius.<ref name=Holbock>{{cite book |chapter= Saint Victor Madelgarius and Saint Waldetrudis| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1HEuDwAAQBAJ&dq=Vincent+Madelgarius&pg=PA106 |last=Holbock |first=Ferdinand |title=Married Saints and Blesseds' |publisher= Ignatius Press |year=2017|page= 106 |isbn=9781681497532}}</ref> Her siblings were Saint Landericus, a Roman Catholic Bishop of Metz; Saint Dentelin who died very young; and Saint Madelberta, who was also abbess of Maubeuge.<ref name=butler /><ref name=godescard>{{cite book|last1=Godescard|first1=Jean-Francois|title=Vies des Pères, Martyrs, et autres principaux Saints tirées des actes originaux et des monuments...|date=1836|pages=593–594|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKRXmaUvP9sC&q=aldetrude&pg=PA594|accessdate=30 July 2016|chapter=Ste Aldetrude, Abbesse a Maubeuge}}</ref>
Her aunt Aldegonde, her mother's sister, was the first abbess of Maubeuge; Aldetrude was sent into her care as a girl and then succeeded her, and her sister Madelberte was the third abbess.
She died and is celebrated on the 25<ref name=cathsaints /><ref name=omnium /> or 27<ref name=godescard /> February. The exact year of her death is unknown though some sources say {{circa}} 696, and she is said to have lived to an advanced age.<ref name=godescard />
In ''The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary'' (2015), "edited ... on behalf of the Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth" it is stated that "Her extant biography is unreliable" and "The revised Roman Martyrology has her 170 years earlier", giving a death date of 526.<ref name="watkins">{{cite book|last1=Watkins|first1=Basil|title=The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary|date=2015|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=9780567664150|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yzqOCgAAQBAJ&q=aldetrude+february&pg=PT44|accessdate=30 July 2016}}</ref>
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