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Saint Herlindis (or Harlindis) (c.695 Maaseik – 745 or 753 Aldeneik near Maaseik) sister of Saint Relindis was a Frankish saint and abbess.Herlindis and Relindis were the daughters of the Frankish nobleman Adelard who had his daughters brought up at the Benedictine monastery in Valenciennes. In 730 Herlindis’s parents set up a Benedictine monastery at Aldeneik for his daughters.

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