Ansegisel

Domesticus of the palace.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: after 662.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Schieffer.

Relationships

(possible) Father: Arnulf.

This relationship is given by pére Anselme (1:22), by Hlawitschka, by Bretscher-Gisiger, and by Ewig. Settipani (pp. 55-57) notes that recently historians have questioned this relationship, but he still finds the evidence for it persuasive, calling it a "quasi-certitude". Bouchard (p. 114) believes the recent doubt is justified.

(possible) Mother: Doda.

This relationship is given by pére Anselme (1:22). Cawley, citing Settipani, notes that the evidence for this relationship is not strong.

Spouse: Begga.

This relationship is given by pére Anselme (1:22), by Ewig, by Hlawitschka, by Schieffer, by Bretscher-Gisiger, and by Settipani (p. 55), who considers it a "quasi-certitude", noting that although the sources for it are a little late, it has never been seriously questioned.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Pépin “le Gros” (about 640 or 650 - 16 December 714), mayor of the palace. His marriages are given on his page.

(possibly) Doda married Theoderic III, king of the Franks.

References

Sources (available online):

Annales Mettenses Priores (ed. B. de Simson) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: SS rer. Germ. 10 (Hannover, 1905). (s.a.688)

Diplomata Regum Francorum e Stirpe Mervingica 1 (ed. B. de Simson) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Diplomata Mer. 1 (Hannover, 2001). (no. 81, no. 108)

Liber Historiae Francorum (ed. Bruno Krusch) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum tomus II. (Hannover, 1888). (c.46)

Literature:

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

Bretscher-Gisiger, Ch. genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Cawley, Charles. “Ansegisel” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Ewig, Eugen “Arnulf”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), S. 397 [Onlinefassung].

Hlawitschka, E. "Ansegisel" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 1 (Stuttgart: 1989).

Schieffer, Rudolf. “Pippin d. Mittlere”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 20 (2001), S. 468-469 [Onlinefassung].

Settipani, Christian. Les ancêtres de Charlemagne. (2nd ed., Prosopographia et Genealogica, 2014).