diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 7b1df1654..0ab1620b4 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 [submodule "include/SortFilterProxyModel"]
 	path = include/SortFilterProxyModel
 	url = https://gitlab.com/b0/SortFilterProxyModel.git
-[submodule "include/libqmatrixclient"]
-	path = include/libqmatrixclient
-	url = https://github.com/QMatrixClient/libqmatrixclient.git
diff --git a/include/libqmatrixclient b/include/libqmatrixclient
deleted file mode 160000
index 89e0cec42..000000000
--- a/include/libqmatrixclient
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 89e0cec42fe9538cbd170a9dc3fcf6dd18b5ac02