Hugh

ON SAINT HUGH

ARCHBISHOP OF ROUEN, AT HASPRES IN BELGIUM.

IN THE YEAR 730.

Hugh, Archbishop of Rouen, at Haspres in Belgium (St)

By G. H.

Among our labors in elucidating the Acts of the Saints, that ought to be considered not the least which we apply in distinguishing the saints themselves, when often several persons are confused into one and the same person, and the deeds of various men are attributed to one, or certainly, because of the similarity of the same name, the Acts of one saint are assigned to another. Saint Hugh son of Drogo, This would have to be more laboriously dealt with here concerning Saint Hugh, had it not recently been done by others. Now Hugh had for father Drogo, for grandfather Pepin of Herstal, for uncle Charles Martel, by whom he was promoted to the See of Rouen and the care of other Churches and Abbeys, as will appear from what is to be said below. Falsely believed to be the son of Charlemagne, There was afterwards another Hugh, later by a whole century, son of the Emperor Charlemagne, to whom the said Archbishopric of Rouen is attributed with a fabulous narration. It exists, by an uncertain author composed easily five hundred years ago, which John Luytens, afterwards created Abbot of Lätien, once transcribed for us from a manuscript of Saint-Vaast, in various Acts, to whom then the General Preface before the Acts of the Saints of January was inscribed. The same history our Frederick Flonet submitted to us from a manuscript of Rouen; which they say is also in the monastery of Jumièges, as the Sainte-Marthes write concerning the Archbishops of Rouen. Afterwards Balderic, Bishop of Dol in Lesser Britain, created in the 14th year of the 12th century, written also by Balderic Bishop of Dol: and died in the 31st year, reduced the same narration into a better style, as the condition of the age bore, and inscribed it to Ursion, Abbot of Jumièges, and to the Congregation of the same place. This we have from book 13 of Jacques de Guise, who divided it into eleven chapters, which Arthur du Monstier published entirely in the Neustria pia chapter 8 of the monastery of Jumièges, and in the following chapter discusses and explodes it; and he shows that they rejected by others. abound in various errors and jolts, repugnant to historical truth and chronological reason. The same the Sainte-Marthes have done in the Archbishops of Rouen, as we said. John Besly, after his history of the Counts of Poitou and Dukes of Aquitaine, published an accurate treatise from contemporary authors on the deeds of Hugh the said abbot, whom, together with Drogo, the queen their mother bore to Charlemagne, whom the Emperor Louis the Pious caused to be brought up with himself in the palace, and afterwards gave to Drogo the Bishopric of Metz, and to Hugh conventual monasteries; who, only Abbot and not Bishop, survived until 844, when, sent by Charles the Bald to the siege of the city of Toulouse, he was slain in battle on June 7. [Elsewhere not sufficiently distinguished from Saint Remedius, son of Charles Martel.] This same Hugh, son of Charlemagne, we find not sufficiently distinguished from another Archbishop of Rouen, Saint Remedius or Remigius, son of Charles Martel, in the Chronicle of the monastery of Novalesa, which is situated in the Alpine valley of Susa, when Hugh the Abbot, son of Charlemagne, is said to have died in the monastery of Saint-Médard at Soissons on the Ides of June, and there his sacred body rests honorably interred, where the Lord worked many miracles through him, and he is held in great veneration by the inhabitants of the place. There the body of Saint Remigius Archbishop rested for some time, as is related at his Life on January 19.

[2] This Hugh, son of Charlemagne, therefore being dismissed, with his fabulous narrations, it remains that we here subjoin what we have found written of the true Saint Hugh Archbishop of Rouen. Diploma of Saint Hugh the Priest signed in the year 714 And first, Saint Hugh, Priest and Primicerius of the Church of Metz, gave the villa of Vigi to the Abbey of Saint Arnulph his great-grandfather, in the fifth year of Dagobert the last King, that is in the year of Christ 715. From this we gather that he was born about 680, especially if he was a priest in the time of King Childebert, as is read in the diploma published by Meurisse in the History of the Bishops of Metz, at the Acts of Saint Arnulph: from which we give below the donation of Saint Hugh, Compendium of the Life. and subjoin to it some compendium of the Life from the Chronicle of Fontanelle (which we have in manuscript, and has recently been published by Luke d'Achery in volume 3 of the Spicilegium of ancient writers); and finally we append some things about the translation of the bodies of Saint Hugh the Archbishop and Saint Aichard, Abbot of Jumièges, gathered from various sources. And the History of the translation From the Acts of the said Chronicle of Fontanelle it is established that Saint Hugh, by the influence of his uncle Charles Martel, was promoted to the episcopal dignity and other prefectures of monasteries, chiefly after the year 720; when, after the death of Chilperic II, he promoted Theodoric, son of Dagobert II King of Austrasia. He succeeded to the Archbishopric of Rouen after Ranilandus. The predecessor of Saint Hugh in the See of Rouen, Radiland or Raniland or Reginaldus, was still living at that time, who ordained Ovo, a Frisian by race, monk of Fontanelle, to the priesthood, whom Saint Vulfiann, having been freed from hanging by his prayers, had brought there, returning from Frisia about 720, as we said in his Life on March 20. They say that Radiland held the pontificate for three years; to him Ordericus Vitalis in book 5 of the Ecclesiastical History page 562 joins Hugh, where he has this about him:

"The venerable Hugh was useful in the Lord's people, And gave to his subjects the dogmas of holy life. This man was cousin of Pepin, Prince of the Franks, And for eight years, in the time of Pope Gregory II, was Archbishop. He also governed the Churches of Paris and Bayeux, And the Abbeys of Jumièges and Fontanelle."

Which is also read in the same Ordericus, book 1 page 366, and in the manuscript ivory codex of the Metropolitan Church

of Rouen, recently published by Philippe Labbe in volume 1 of the Nova bibliotheca of manuscript books, page 365, and they are referred to the year of Christ 722, in the year 722, and after eight years of his See his death to 730, died in 730, succeeded by Rutbertus: with the succession of Rutbertus in the Archbishopric of Rouen. In the same way, between Raniland and Rutbertus, Saint Hugh is placed in a manuscript codex which we found among the books of the Queen of Sweden; also in Demochares, Chenu, Claudius Robertus, Francis Pommeraye, and the Sainte-Marthes in the Catalogues of the Archbishops of Rouen. Talpeau agrees in the Antiquities of Rouen chapter 25; Dadré in the Chronology of the Archbishops of Rouen; and finally the series of Archbishops of Rouen, with the synodal statutes gathered by order of Archbishop Francis II and published in 1648, in which the following compendium of his Life is contained: "Saint Hugh I, son of Drogo Duke of Burgundy and Adaltrude, first Primicerius of the Church of Metz, ruled the Church of Paris and of Bayeux together with that of Rouen, at the same time Abbot of Fontenelle and Jumièges. He died at Jumièges about the year of Christ 730, on the 5th day before the Ides of April. He was buried there in the basilica of Saint Mary; thence with Saint Aichard the Abbot he was afterwards translated to Haspres. He is said to have sat for eight years." We do not doubt that the lessons of the present-day Breviary of Rouen are quite corrected. For in the Breviary which we have, printed in 1587, nine lessons are recited, from the fabulous narration of the monks of Jumièges reduced into another style by Balderic; but in the Breviary of the year 1627 new errors are added, when in three lessons he is called "Saint Hugh II, son of Charlemagne," and placed between Menard and Wilbert; which, as a new invention, collapses of itself. The Catalogues of the Bishops of Paris and Bayeux place the same Saint Hugh in 722, and consequently make him son of Drogo; and everywhere all esteem him a Saint.

[3] The tables of the Roman Martyrology report him in these few words: "At Rouen, of Saint Hugh, Bishop and Confessor." In the Notes John Molanus is cited in his additions to the Martyrology of Usuard, Sacred cult. who treats more fully of him in the Indiculus and Natales Sanctorum Belgii; but some things are taken from the fabulous narration which he had found at Saint-Vaast. Saussay in the Gallican Martyrology, Ghini in the Natales of the holy canons, Wion and Bucelinus in the Monastic Martyrology drank in and augmented Molanus's errors; but Menard more prudently rejected those blemishes. But Mirée in the Belgian and Burgundian calendars mentions him, but writes by a new error that he was the son of King Carloman, following Balderic, Bishop of Noyon, who wrote this in book 2 of the Chronicle of Cambrai chapter 29. In the manuscript Martyrology of Jumièges we find this: "In the region of Rouen, in a place which is beautifully named Jumièges, the birthday of Saint Hugh, Archbishop of the sacred Church of Rouen." More briefly is read in the ancient manuscript of Arras of the cathedral church: "And the deposition of Blessed Hugh, Bishop of Rouen." Similar has Greven in his Additions to Usuard.

DIPLOMA OF SAINT HUGH

From Meurisse on the Bishops of Metz.

Hugh, Archbishop of Rouen, at Haspres in Belgium (St)

[1] I, Hugh, a Primicerius of Metz, humble Priest, and my brother the illustrious man b Arnulph the Duke, and also c Pepin and Godfrey, have agreed to this in the following manner and according to the tenor of this letter. In the name of Christ, on the eighth day before the Kalends of July, in the d fifth year of the reign of our Lord Dagobert the King. As often as, as is wont to happen through human frailty, any person departs from this light, it behooves his heirs to assign from his means, for the remedy of his soul, something to places of the Saints, Out of regard for piety. that to them in eternal beatitude a reward may accrue for this thing. Therefore we in the name of God, Hugh the humble Priest, and my brother the illustrious man Arnulph the Duke, and also Pepin and Godfrey, when it happened that our father, the illustrious man Drogo, once departed from this light, our petition was to the venerable man Luitbert the Abbot, of the basilica of the Holy Apostles which is built outside the wall of the city of Metz, where e our ancestor Dom Arnulph rests in body, that we should be allowed to bury our said father Drogo there, and for the sake of the paternal soul's salvation and Luitbert himself was seen kindly to have granted this. Therefore we, both on account of that place of burial and for the remedy of the soul of our said father, donates the villa of Vigi. are seen to have granted the villa called Vigi, situated in the region of Metz (which that same father of his, our grandfather f Pepin, granted to him as his gift), to the basilica of the Holy Apostles, for the clergy or poor receiving food there, or for the lectors serving there, from the present day by this charter of donation: that is, both within the wall and outside the wall of the city of Metz, with lands, houses, basilicas, buildings, tenants, slaves, freedmen, vineyards, forests, fields, meadows, pastures, mills, appendages, cultivated and uncultivated, waters and watercourses, movable and immovable, with full integrity or adjacent to them, looking to or pertaining to them, or every kind of quadrupeds; whatever in that villa Pepin and our aforesaid father were seen to have held or possessed: the Abbot himself or his successors shall have, hold, and possess this on behalf of the above-mentioned basilica; and whatever they shall decree to do from it for the convenience of the same basilica, they shall enjoy free choice in all things. And if—which we do not believe will happen—we ourselves or any of our heirs or the heirs of our heirs, or any opposing person, shall presume to walk against this page of delegation or testament, or shall try to remove any cause from it, first of all let him incur the wrath of almighty God, and be made a stranger from the thresholds of the Saints, and thus wither at the root so that he never flower in branches, and moreover let him pay into that basilica and the most sacred treasury five pounds of gold, ten of silver; and what he seeks, let him not be able to gain: but let the present delegation or testament at all times retain the fullest firmness, confirmed by stipulation. Done at Metz publicly, on the day and time above. I, Hugh, though a sinful priest, have confirmed this delegation or testament made by me. I, Arnulph the Duke, consenting to this testament. Etc.

ANNOTATIONS.

COMPENDIUM OF THE LIFE

From the Chronicle of Fontenelle, chapter VIII.

Hugh, Archbishop of Rouen, at Haspres in Belgium (St)

BHL Number: 4032

[1] Hugh, son of Drogo, a venerable man, begotten of his mother named a Adaltrude, b nephew of Charles, the most sagacious Prince; Saint Hugh, Archbishop of Rouen, Archbishop of the Church of Rouen; after Benignus, took up the rule of this monastery, from the year of the Lord's Incarnation 723, in the sixth Indiction, which was the c ninth year of the Principate of Charles, and the d seventh year of Gregory II, Pope, was at hand; and he ruled this monastery for e nine years, two months, and thirteen days: that is, until the sixteenth year of the Principate of the aforesaid Charles, the seventeenth of the aforesaid Pope Gregory, and the seven hundred thirtieth of the Lord's Incarnation, in the thirteenth Indiction. He also held the Bishopric of the Church of Paris, and also of Bayeux with that of Rouen, namely by the influence of his uncle Charles the Prince, but contrary to the decrees of the Canons; and the more noble monasteries, Fontenelle and Jumièges; [He ruled also the Bishoprics of Paris and Bayeux, the Abbeys of Fontenelle and Jumièges:] and also royal estates which settled in his mind. For he did not obtain these from a perverse cupidity or any worldly ambition, from his uncle Charles the Prince, or from the Kings of the Franks who in his time held the sceptres of this kingdom (that is f Childebert, Dagobert, Chilperic, Chlothar, and also Theodoric); but in order to hand them over at once to the Churches of Christ, knowing it is written, "That inheritance is well stored, which is kept with God as its guardian." His mother, Adaltrude, as we said, was the daughter of g Waratto, a most noble mayor of the royal palace, and of h Ansfled his wife, who gave very many estates to this monastery.

[2] brought up by Ansfled, his maternal grandmother, Finally, the said religious and strenuous matron Ansfled, his grandmother, the widow of Waratto, had taken up Hugh himself, afterwards the most glorious Father, to nurture. She, therefore, filled with the spirit of prudence and foresight, is said with daily admonitions to have strengthened the boy's mind, so that he might enslave himself, with all that he had, to God's service. Whence it came about that, imbued with the study of the sacred Scriptures, he went before his contemporaries in wisdom and religion, and according to the holy suggestion of his illustrious nurse and grandmother Ansfled, he began to despise all earthly things, and to pant manfully for the heavenly kingdoms, and at the same time to hand over very many patrimonies to the Churches of Christ; which, if any wish to know more fully, let them turn over the records of the cities of Rouen, Paris, and Bayeux, and of this monastery of Fontenelle, and likewise of Jumièges, and there they will find how great solicitude and watchful care he had for the construction, propagation, administration, and exaltation of the Churches. His father Drogo, son of the aforesaid Pepin, Duke of the Franks, brother of Grimoald and Charles the most noble Princes, died in the year from the Incarnation of the Lord seven hundred i seven, Indiction five, in the time of spring. This venerable man Hugh succeeds in the see of Rouen, k the twentieth

twenty-third from Mellon, the first bishop of the same city. He is also appointed Rector or Procurator of the city of Paris, l the thirty-fifth from Blessed Dionysius. Further, in the rule of this monastery of Fontenelle he stands seventh from Blessed Wandregisilus; similarly from Saint Philibert in the rule of the monastery of m Jumièges.

[3] He gave the men of Fontenelle a villa in the year 713, For this venerable man Hugh, while he was yet a n layman, bestowed on Abbot Benignus the villa of o Vierlaicum, which is situated in the region of Tellau on the river Eora, which had legitimately come to him by right of his said ancestors. This donation was made in the year of the Lord's Incarnation 713, in the eleventh Indiction, which was the third year of Dagobert the Younger as King, another in the year 718, and the 26th of Pepin as Duke, on the 11th day before the Kalends of July, on Wednesday. Among his other estates handed over, he also gave the villa of Witflana to p Wanto the Abbot, in the first year of King Chlothar, whom Charles, after the flight of Chilperic and Raganfrid, had set up as king for himself. And it was possessed by this monastery until the rule of Abbot Witlaicus, Others that Abbot of theirs received. for 43 years. To this glorious prelate a certain Illustrious man named Bertus gave a certain portion of the villa of Digmaniaco, which is situated in the region of Ocismensis, in the centena of Alanzon, and that property which is called Vanda, in the centena of Sagiensis; similarly in the territory of Le Mans that property which is called Veringo or Metiago, which is called Avanacourte. This donation was published in the q eleventh year of King Theodoric, father of Chilperic, finally the last king of the race of the Merovingians. Concerning the patrimonies which this glorious prelate gave to this place, or obtained and received from faithful Christians, whoever wishes to know, let him turn over the testaments published by him; and then he will prove that I have neither said nor written anything sinister about him. They supplied "mensatae" meal-provisions… sufficient nourishment for each month; therefore his memory remains in benediction.

[4] When the years of his praiseworthy course were completed, he migrated to the Lord on the r sixth day before the Ides of April, which was the year of the Lord's Incarnation 730, in the thirteenth Indiction. He dies in 730, is buried at Jumièges, His body was reverently committed to burial at the monastery of Jumièges, where he also departed from life, in the church of the Holy Mother and perpetual Virgin Mary; and a s repa, adorned with various metals, was set up by the brethren living there over his tomb, for love, namely, of his sanctity and reverence for him; for none of the rulers of the same monastery, before or after him, gave or obtained so many estates and possessions under the right of that venerable place as he took care to do, as is clear to those who read the testaments of that monastery. He left in this monastery of Fontenelle a golden chalice and a golden paten, weighing four pounds and two ounces; a little golden tower turricula, He bequeathed various things to the men of Fontenelle. weighing six pounds; a shrine adorned with gold and gems containing the relics of various Saints: for he did very many works of goodness, which it is most laborious to enumerate. For he was noble in race, but no less so in religion. Let these things concerning the venerable Father and Lord Hugh suffice.

ANNOTATIONS.

p Wanto or Wando was substituted for Benignus, after Raganfrid the Mayor of the Palace had been deposed.

q Therefore in the year of Christ 730; but perhaps some year from the preceding is to be substituted, since he is said to have died in that year.

r Rather the 5th day before the Ides, or April 9.

s Repa—a circle, from the Celtic word "Reep," which the Belgians still use. Hence supply what is wanting in the commentary before the Life of Saint Bathildis the Queen, number 26, where she is said, from the Life of Saint Eligius, to have commanded a "crepa" of gold and silver to be wondrously made, which she should place over the body of the Confessor; and for "crepa" read "repa"; and understand an ample crown, hanging above the tomb, in the likeness of a parasol.

ON THE TRANSLATION OF THE BODY OF SAINT HUGH

to the Priory of Haspres.

Hugh, Archbishop of Rouen, at Haspres in Belgium (St)

BY G. H.

[1] That the Gallic and Belgic provinces were in the ninth century miserably devastated by the Northmen, In the devastation of the Northmen, peoples of Denmark and the neighboring kingdoms, is well known and related by almost all writers. But what then befell the monastery of Jumièges is not exactly to be read in separate publications. In the deeds of the Normans before Duke Rollo, these are the first things that were carried out at the Seine: "In the year of our Lord 841, begun in 841 the Northmen, rushing in from the Ocean Euripus to Rotuma, or Rouen, raging with plunder, sword, and fire, destroyed the monks and the people with killings or captivity, and depopulated all the temples and places along the river Seine, and having taken much money, withdrew." But often in the following times they returned; wherefore by the monks of Fontenelle, [The bodies of Saints Wandregisilus and Ansbertus were carried elsewhere in the year 858:] in the year 858, the most holy bones and pious ashes of the excellent Confessor of Christ, Wandregisilus, and of the holy Prelate Ansbertus, out of fear and the trampling of the wicked Gentiles, were dug out of their own sepulchres at Fontenelle monastery and carried to the estate of these same Saints, which is called the villa of Bladulph, and thence to other places; as a Fontenelle monk, who seems to have been present, describes in the Miracles of Saint Wandregisilus, and we have excerpted thence for the Acts of Saint Ansbertus, Archbishop of Rouen, on February 9. As also Saints Hugh and Aichard to Haspres, The same words, the names of the Saints being changed, seem to be able to be said of the bodies of Saints Hugh, Archbishop of Rouen, and Aichard, Abbot of Jumièges, which, dug out of their own sepulchres at Jumièges, were carried to the estate of these same Saints, which is called the villa of Haspres, either in the said year 858 or in another of that century, for fear and the trampling of the wicked Gentile Northmen. The day of translation is assigned in the Martyrology of Jumièges to March 29.

[2] Haspres is a village with a monastic priory, situated midway between Cambrai and Valenciennes, A villa of the monastery of Jumièges: on the right bank of the river Selle, ascribed to Hainaut. "Which villa," says Baldericus in book 2 of the Chronicle of Cambrai, chapter 29, "whether we should say that it was earlier subject to the aforesaid monastery of Jumièges, or whether at that time, either by the King or by some Prince, for the remedy of his soul, it was handed over for the reception of the Saints, is uncertain." And after interposing some things about the Acts of these Saints, he adds: "With these remaining hereafter at this villa, a monastery having been made, Where they shine with miracles: and monks assigned to their praise, the pious and merciful God deigned to work many and indeed most celebrated prodigies of virtue, even to such an extent that no one of the neighboring powerful men, or of those passing in any military expedition, has ever dared to make any presumption against them." So he writes, which is somewhat more fully explained in the manuscript Chronicle of Hainaut of Jacques de Guise, book 14, chapter 6, in these words: "In the very interval of the devastation of the Northmen, the said bodies of the Saints at Haspres and in the confines shone in so many and such great miracles, that the whole people of the neighboring cities were drawn to the devotion of the said Saints: whence Emperors, Kings, Princes, and Counts enriched the said cell with donations, privileges, largesses, and munificences. When the Northmen and Danes were finally pacified and converted to the faith, then in time of peace the Abbot of Jumièges with his whole convent sent legates to the cell at Haspres and they are kept back, vainly sought again by the men of Jumièges, that the said bodies of the Saints might be returned to them. About which the Prior and the Bishop of Cambrai, together with the nobles of the surrounding territories being gathered, decided likewise for this cause to approach the presence of the Emperor. Which Emperor finally decreed that, with certain pacts and interventions between the monastery of Jumièges and the cell of Haspres on one side, and the Emperor and the said two Churches on the other, peacefully and concordantly arranged, the said bodies of the Saints should remain perpetually at Haspres, which remained stable and firm to this day." So says Guise. Then perhaps among the agreements there was such a one, that some parts of the relics should be given to the monks of Jumièges and of Rouen: Part of an arm is said to be at Rouen. for that a part of the arm of Saint Hugh was formerly enclosed in a silver reliquary is clear from an old inventory of the sacred pledges, made in 1555 on the last of July, as Farin in Normandia Christiana, page 676, and the Sainte-Marthes in the Archbishops of Rouen, testify. But that donation of relics could have happened when the priory of Haspres was transcribed to the Abbot of Saint-Vaast,

the occasion of which is thus described by Baldericus at the indicated place.

[3] "Because the Abbot of Jumièges, of the monks of Haspres, was far off and very rarely visited them because of the difficulty of the distance, they, loosed into liberty, followed the world, and living irregularly until the time of Bishop Gerard, as being without a rector, were in danger. Seeing which, the Bishop often admonished the Abbot to correct this because of the dissolute life of the monks,: but because, as we said, he was far off, he delayed the correction. Now it happened that the Bishop, out of ecclesiastical concern, passed through this village, and indicated to Leduinus Abbot of Saint-Vaast (for he was his companion on the journey) the indecent conduct of the monks. By salutary and indeed competent counsel he urged him that, if he had any properties of Saint Vaast in the neighborhood of the said monastery, he should exchange them for this monastery (which was contiguous to him), and should endeavor to improve this place for the gain of eternal reward. He, amid such discussions, hesitated uncertain, and yet as if with difficulty refused. Not much later, the Abbot, well and diligently considering the opportunity, having been wisely counseled, Haspres is subjected to the Abbot of Saint-Vaast, made known to the Bishop that he would be the executor of the admonition, if he could obtain the exchange from Abbot Theodoric himself. Whence the joyful Bishop, having immediately sent a legation, approached Abbot Theodoric, showing the danger to his soul unless he took counsel in time; and that since he was placed far away, he should exchange the place. But if he would not, joining to himself Baldwin the Marquis, he would expel the false monks and endeavor with all authority to improve the place. Upon which the Abbot, using fitting counsel, thought fit to satisfy the Bishop's commands; and having received the properties of Saint Vaast which lay around in his neighborhood, handed over the villa of Haspres to Abbot Leduinus. This exchange was made in the presence of Robert, King of the Franks, and of the Counts, namely Baldwin of the Flemings and Richard of the Normans, and was confirmed by them." So Baldericus. And the diploma of the said exchange Mirée published in book 2 of the Belgian Diplomas chapter 29, and again, with superfluous things cut off, in the Notitia of the Churches of Belgium chapter 88, and from there we transcribe these things.

[4] And confirmed by a diploma, "I, Leduinus, Abbot of the monastery of the precious Confessor of Christ Vedastus, first directed that writing be made concerning certain properties of the said Father Vedastus, exchanged in our times, and again received. It is a known thing, and is kept by us in writing, that, along with other donations conferred on Blessed Vedastus by the Kings of the Franks, the villa called Anglicurt, which is in the diocese of Beauvais, is by antiquity hereditary with the family of Saint Vedastus. in the year 1044, But in our time, I say, in the year of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ 1044, through Gerard, Bishop of Cambrai and Arras, it was thus carried out, that we, by the counsel of the Seniors and neighbors, and of our Brothers, should receive as a gift the cell called Haspres from Count Richard and Abbot Theodoric of the monastery of Jumièges, because it was nearer to us; they also should possess the little cell of Anglicurt, nearer to them, by our donation. Witnesses of this matter were Count Richard; Archbishop Robert, his brother; Richard, son of Richard; Robert, his brother; Warin, Bishop of Beauvais, a brother of our congregation. Done at Rouen in the month of January, on the octave of the Epiphany, in the sixth Indiction, during the reign of the most serene King of the Franks, Robert, in the 28th year of his empire." Then, as Baldericus cited above testifies, Abbot Leduinus, being a fitting builder, with the greatest zeal improved the place to the praise and veneration of the Saints who rest there, and hastened to distinguish it with new buildings and a regular cloister.

[5] The body is carried to the dedication of the church of Hasnon: When the church of the monastery of Hasnon, transferred to the Benedictines, was repaired and dedicated in the year 1070, the bodies of Saints Hugh and Aichard were carried there, and of twenty-three others whom Meyer names in the Annals of Flanders under the said year. We ourselves were at the Priory of Haspres on December 7, 1662, and venerated these sacred remains, Deposited in a silver reliquary. which we saw placed in a reliquary skilfully made of silver, by the munificence of Philip Gaverelle the Abbot, as Arnold Raissius testifies in the Hierogazophylacium Belgicum, page 241. Whether this or some other earlier Translation of Saint Hugh is that which the religious of Saint-Vaast celebrate on January 19, with the office taken from the natal day, we do not divine; for of the Translation which they honor, they have no distinct memory, no written history. The metropolitan church of Saint Vitus at Prague has one finger of that Saint, a finger at Prague, brought in the year 1372 by the Emperor Charles IV, who was most zealous to gather such sacred treasures from everywhere, as is clear from the Diary of the Relics of the said church, most recently published by Thomas Pešina of Čechorod, Dean and Official there.