Waningus

Waningus or Vaneng (* unknown; † 685 ) was a nobleman and royal official under Clotaire III, later he founded the monastery of Fécamp and became a monk and Abt.

Waningus was an influential advisor at the royal court of Neustria under the Merovingian Clotaire III. and thus belongs in the environment of Audoenus of Rouen. Supposedly, the Holy Eulalia of Barcelona to have appeared in a dream and have told him how difficult it is for the rich to get to heaven to him. Then he gave up his worldly possessions and founded the nunnery Fécamp. He himself became a monk and was no longer in a day to be identified monastery, whose abbot, he was later.

In a later version of the Life of Saint Wandregisel his involvement in the foundation of the Abbey of Saint- wall groove is mentioned. His son Desiderius of Fontenelle came also as a monk in the monastery of Saint- wall groove.

In the Catholic Church is January 9th day of remembrance for him.