A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Adelind
B. Adelind, Aug. 28 (Adelina (1), Adeline). 8th and perhaps part of 9th century. Founder and first abbess of Buchau, or Buchen, in Suabia. Born in the castle of Andechs. Represented distributing loaves to the poor. Sister of St. Hildegard, wife of Charlemagne. Married Hatto or Otho, count of Kesselburg, who was killed, with their three sons, in a great battle against the Huns, at a place called afterwards the Valley of Tears. They had another son, a deacon, who died of grief soon after the death of his father and brothers. After the Huns were driven out of Germany by Charlemagne, Adelind founded a monastery in memory of her husband and sons; buried them within its precincts; took the veil, and became first abbess there. She died Aug. 28, and is honoured on this day or Aug 21. Perier, the Bollandist, in AA.SS. Pétin, Dic. Hag. Moustier. Guenébault, Dic. d'Icon.