Begga

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 693.

The date is given by Schieffer.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Pepin of Landen.

This relationship is given by pére Anselme (1:22), by Hlawitschka, by Schieffer, and by Settipani.

Mother: Itta.

This relationship is given by pére Anselme (1:22), by Hlawitschka, by Schieffer, and by Settipani.

Spouse: Ansegisel.

This relationship is given by pére Anselme (1:22), by Ewig, by Hlawitschka, by Schieffer, and by Settipani (p. 55).

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)

"De S. Begga Vidua" in Acta Sanctorum Tomus V. (Brussels, 1789).

"De Virtutibus Sanctae Geretrudis" (ed. Bruno Krusch) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum tomus II. (Hannover, 1888). (c. 10)

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).

Hlawitschka, E. "Begga" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 1 (Stuttgart: 1980).

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

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

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