Aldegonde [SEP] canonization status
Aldegonde
Saint Aldegonde (or Adelgonde) ( or "Adelgundis") ( 639–684 AD) was a Frankish Benedictine abbess who is honored as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in France and Eastern Orthodox Church. 
Life.
Aldegonde was closely related to the Merovingian royal family. Her parents, afterwards honored as St. Walbert, Count of Guînes, and St. Bertilla de Mareuil, lived in the County of Hainaut. She is the most famous of what Aline Hornaday calls the "Maubeuge Cycle" of .
Aldegundis
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Maubeuge was designated a royal abbey in 864, under the Treaty of Meersen, which divided Lotharingia. In the eleventh century the abbess was a powerful local figure.
At a later date the community changed their observance to the less severe Rule of St. Augustine and their status went from nuns to that of canonesses regular. A distinctive part of their religious habit was a gold medal, bearing an image of St. Aldegonde in enamel, suspended on a blue cord tied with a gold tassel.
The abbey was dissolved