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Born to nobility, her father was Count Herman of Lidtberg and her mother Countess Hedwig.
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Saint Hildegund
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C 1130–1183) was a Praemonstratensian abbess. Together they had three children, one of whom did not survive into adulthood. She converted her castle into a monastery, serving as its first abbess.
Her daughter Hedwig also embraced the monastic life and was a part of the community founded by her mother.
She came to be given the status of "Blessed". Her son, Hermann Joseph, declared a saint as well, had already entered that same Order (whose members also known as Norbertines) at the age of twelve, and had become a canon regular of the Abbey of Steinfeld, where he developed a great reputation as a mystic.
She should not be confused with another Hildegund of the same era, who lived her life disguised as a man, and was considered by some as a saint.
