Also known as Saint Arnulf of Metz.
Events
Date of Birth: about 580 or 585.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The estimated date is given by Cawley.
Date of Death: 18 July 640 (or possibly 641 or 643).
Place of Death: Remiremont.
The date and place are given by Ewig.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
There is no certainty about Arnulf’s ancestry. A 9th century genealogy gives his father as Arnold, but this is considered to be unreliable. Another 8th or 9th century genealogy gives his father as Bodogisel.
Mother: unknown.
(possible) Spouse: Doda.
This relationship is given by pére Anselme (1:22). Cawley, citing Settipani, notes that the evidence for this relationship is not strong.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)
Chlodulf (about 610 - 8 May, about 697).
Ansegisel (born about 612).
References
Sources (available online):
(Pseudo-) Fredegarius. Chronicarum quae dicunter Fredegarii Scholastici libri IV. cum Continuationes (ed. Bruno Krusch) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum tomus II. (Hannover, 1888). (IV 40, 58)
Umnone. "Vita Sancti Arnulfi" in Acta Sanctorum Julii tomus quartus. (Paris and Rome, 1868). pp. 440-445
"Vitae Columbani abbatis discipulorumque eius" (ed. Bruno Krusch) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum tomus IV. (Hannover, 1902). II, 23
"Vita Sancti Arnulfi" (ed. Bruno Krusch) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum tomus II. (Hannover, 1888). pp. 426-446.
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).
Bretscher-Gisiger, Ch. genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.
Cawley, Charles. “Arnoul” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Ewig, Eugen “Arnulf”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), S. 397 [Onlinefassung].
Settipani, Christian. Les ancêtres de Charlemagne. (2nd ed., Prosopographia et Genealogica, 2014).