Ansegisel (also Ansgise, Ansegus, or Anchises) (c. 602 or 610 – murdered before 679 or 662) was the younger son of Saint Arnulf, bishop of Metz.[1] He served King Sigebert III of Austrasia (634–656) as a duke (Latindux, a military leader) and domesticus. He was killed sometime before 679, slain in a feud by his enemy Gundewin. Through his son Pepin, Ansegisel’s descendants would eventually become Frankish kings and rule over the Carolingian Empire.
Marriage and issue:
He was married to Begga, the daughter of Pepin the Elder, sometime after 639. They had the following children:
- Pepin II (635 or 640 – December 16, 714), who would later become Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
- Martin of Herstal
- Clotilda of Herstal (650–699), married King Theuderic III of Neustria
References:
Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014,ISBN9780812290080, p. 115
My Family tree to Saint Arnulf of Metz (582 - 640) 