IfVenerated in the Black Forest and Breisgau, and in the diocese of Constance. The Martyrology of Usuardus [a 9th-century monk of Paris who compiled a list of saints for each day] amplified for the Church of Elsass, the Strasburg Breviary, Ac. Authority The Acts, not ancient as we have them, but written in 1379 • but this was only an amplification of an earlier life written before 903 by Erkcnbald the abbot of S. Trudpert.J In the Miinsterthal, one of the most beautiful valleys of the Black Forest, is the ancient monastery of S. Trudpert. It lies besides the Neumazen-Bach, enclosed by wooded hills, not far from the ancient town of Staufen, and the ruined castle of Staufenburg, the seat of a powerful race, which became extinct in 1602.
In 640 a wanderer arrived at this castle, then belonging to count Othpert of Hapsburg, he was a pilgrim from Rome, but of northern race, seeking some green and secret retreat where he might pass the rest of his days alone with nature and nature's God The count, pleased with the pilgrim, whose name was Trudpert, recommended him to settle in the grassy glen of the upper Miinsterthal, where rocks and dense forest would wall him out from the world Trudpert sought the place, loved it, and settled beside the clear stream.
Othpert built him a little chapel, which was consecrated to SS. Peter and Paul, by the bishop of Constance, and sent some of his servants to assist him in cutting wood and gathering in his hay. Two of these fellows bearing a grudge against the hermit — why is not known — resolved to kill him; and one day, as Trudpert lay asleep on his bench before his cell, in the hot sun, one of them clave his skull with an axe, and ran away leaving the weapon in the wound A monastery afterwards rose on the site of the murder.
