page_title: Hubertus
section_title: Religious career
hierarchical_section_title: Hubertus / Religious career
caption_attribution_description: English: St Hubert of Liège is consecrated bishop by Pope Sergius. Contents: Hubert le Prevost, Vie de St. Hubert Place of origin, date: Bruges, David Aubert (scribe), Loyset Liédet (illuminator); 1463 Material: Vellum, ff. 76, 323x244 (204x150) mm, 22 lines, littera hybrida (lettre bourguignonne), Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt Decoration: 13 miniatures (115/100x150 mm), 1 historiated initial (38x42 mm; coat of arms), decorated initials (9v, 10v, 11v, 12v, 13r, etc) Provenance: made in 1463 for Philip the Good (d. 1467), Duke of Burgundy; remained in the ducal Library till the 17th century (mentioned in the inventories of 1467, 1487, 1536, 1577, 1598 and 1614). Disappeared after 1643. H.-N. de Villenfagne d'Ingihoul, Bruxelles (d. 1826).Purchased in 1826 by King William I of The Netherlands and placed in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
context_page_description: Hubertus or Hubert was a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 AD. He was the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians, and metalworkers. Known as the "Apostle of the Ardennes", he was called upon, until the early 20th century, to cure rabies through the use of the traditional St Hubert's Key.
  Hubertus was widely venerated during the Middle Ages. The iconography of his legend is entangled with the legend of martyr Saint Eustace. The Bollandists published seven early lives of Hubertus; the first of these was the work of a contemporary, though it is very sparing of details.
  He died 30 May 727 AD in or near a place called Fura. In the later Middle Ages, this place was claimed to have been identified as Tervuren near Brussels, but recent scholarship considers Voeren, a location much closer to Liège than Brussels, to be the likelier resting place. His feast day is 3 November.
  His other skills were mathematics and metalwork.
context_section_description: Hubert set out immediately for Maastricht, for there Lambert was bishop who received him kindly, and became his spiritual director. Hubert now renounced all his very considerable honors, and gave up his birthright to the Aquitaine to his younger brother, Odo, whom he made guardian of his infant son, Floribert. Having distributed all his personal wealth among the poor, he studied for the priesthood, was soon ordained, and shortly afterwards became one of St. Lambert's chief associates in the administration of his diocese. By the advice of St. Lambert, Hubert made a pilgrimage to Rome in 708, but during his absence, Lambert was assassinated by the followers of Pepin. According to the hagiographies of Hubert, this act was simultaneously revealed to the pope in a vision, together with an injunction to appoint Hubert bishop of Maastricht.
  He distributed his episcopal revenues among the poor, was diligent in fasting and prayer, and became famous for his eloquence in the pulpit. In 720, in obedience to a vision, Hubert translated St. Lambert's remains from Maastricht to Liège with great pomp and ceremonial, several neighboring bishops assisting. A basilica for the relics was built upon the site of Lambert's martyrdom, and was made a cathedral the following year, the see being removed from Maastricht to Liège, then only a small village. This laid the foundation of the future greatness of Liège, of which Lambert is honored as patron, and Hubert as founder and first bishop.
  Hubert actively evangelised among the pagans in the extensive Ardennes forests and in Toxandria, a district stretching from near Tongeren to the confluence of the Waal and the Rhine.
caption: Saint Hubertus being consecrated Bishop by Pope Sergius I.
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