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Benedictine abbot and founder, also called Mauront. The eldest son of St. Adalbald and St. Rictrudis of Flanders, he served King Clovis II of the Franks . He entered Marchiennes Monastery at the urging of St. Amandus of Maestricht and founded the abbey of Breuil on his personal estate near Therouanne. His sister was an abbess at Marchiennes.
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