Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. German Mart., and that of Sarum by Wytford. His life is to be gathered from the Acts of his sons SS. Willibald and Wunibald; the life of S. Willibald was written by his cousin, a nun of Heidenheim.

This saint was, according to the belief of the people of Lucca, a prince in Wessex [the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of southern England]; but there is not only no evidence that he was of royal rank, but there is strong contemporary evidence that he was merely a petty noble.

Taking with him his two sons, Willibald and Wunibald, he undertook a pilgrimage to Rome; and sailing from Hamblewich, i.e. Southampton, landed in France. He made a brief stay at Rouen, and paid his devotions at all the principal shrines on his way through France. On his arrival at Lucca, in Italy, he was taken ill and died. He was buried in the Church of S. Fridian, there, where his relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] are still preserved; and his festival is kept with singular devotion. See further the life of S. Willibald (July 7).