Baring-Gould’s sources: Venerated at Schaffhausen. Authority: — A life in an Ancient Chronicle of Schaffhausen, published by the BollandistsJ Eberhardt was the son of Eppo, count of Nellburg, and Hedwig, daughter of S. Stephen, king of Hungary. She was a very religious woman, and was wont to rise in the night to say her prayers, and recite psalms. Eppo, impatient at being disturbed in his slumbers, one night slipped from her side, and taking her psalter away, threw it into the fire. Eberhardt their son derived his earnest piety from his mother. He married a wife called Ida, or Itta, and by her had six sons, of whom Otto became in after years (1067-1077) Archbishop of Treves; Eginhardt became a monk in the abbey of Reichenau, and afterwards, in 1071, its abbot; Bilrchardt, who succeeded his father as count of Nellburg; two sons who fell in battle in 1075, fighting under Henry IV., and one who died young. Count Eberhardt founded the Benedictine abbey of Schaffhausen. He had long wished to give a portion of his great possessions to God, and he took counsel with an old boatman who ferried across the Rhine. This old man told him that he had seen a bright light, like a fiery cross, at a certain spot on the river bank, and there Eberhardt laid the foundations of his abbey. It was dedicated in 1066. After some years he left the world, and retired into the monastery he had built