Homblières

According to Abbot Berner who wrote the Vita of Hunegund in the 10th century, a monastic community was founded around 650 near the site of present-day Homblières by a young noblewoman named Hunegund , a native of Lambay in the Vermandois.The monastery of Homblières is first mentioned in the 940s as a community of nuns in need of reform because of lapsed morals. The archbishop of Reims assigned Bertha, an old nun from the abbey of Saint-Pierre of Reims, to restore the community, but without much success. After Bertha’s death in 948 or 949, King Louis IV authorized the expulsion of the nuns and their replacement by monks from Saint-Remi of Reims who were required to live at Homblières under the Benedictine Rule. It was their first abbot, Berner, who wrote the Vita of Hunegund from stories that he had heard locally.Eilbert of Florennes, a direct descendant of Emperor Lothair’s vassal Ebro, was responsible for refounding the abbey at Homblières.

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