Lambert of Tongeren

Bishop of Maastricht at about thirty-five, Lambert was driven from his see by his adversaries and replaced by one Pharamond; he spent seven years at the monastery of Stavelot before being restored. He evangelised Toxandria. The earliest Life, written a generation after his death, tells that he was killed at his residence in Liège at the end of a vendetta: men close to the bishop had killed two others, Gallus and Rivaldus, and their kinsman Dodo came to avenge them. Two centuries later a Liège poem would give the murder another motive — the rebuke addressed to Pepin of Herstal over his liaison with Alpaida. His successor Hubert moved the episcopal see to the place of the murder: it is there that Liège was built, around his tomb.