Ansegisel
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Ansegisel (c. 602 or 610 – murdered before 679 or 662) was the younger son of Saint Arnulf, bishop of Metz.<ref>Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Template:ISBN, p. 115</ref>
LifeEdit
He served King Sigebert III of Austrasia (634–656) as 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. Template:Carolingians
Marriage and issueEdit
He was married to Begga, the daughter of Pepin the Elder,<ref>Bartlett, Robert. Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2020, p. 318 Template:ISBN</ref> sometime after 639. They had the following children:
- Pepin the Middle (635 or 640 – December 16, 714), who would later become Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
- Martin of Laon (647 - 680) (though this is disputed)
- Clotilda of Herstal (650–699), married King Theuderic III of Neustria