Ansegisel
{{Short description|7th-century Merovingian nobleman, ancestor of Frankish kings}}
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| father = Arnulf of Metz
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Ansegisel (c. 602 or 610 – murdered before 679 or 662) was the younger son of Saint Arnulf, bishop of Metz.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsNKBAAAQBAJ&dq=drogo+duke+of+champagne&pg=PA111 Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200], University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 {{ISBN|9780812290080}}, p. 115
Life
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.
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Marriage and issue
He was married to Begga, the daughter of Pepin the Elder,[https://books.google.com/books?id=51DuDwAAQBAJ&dq=Ansegisel&pg=PA318 Bartlett, Robert. Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2020, p. 318] {{ISBN|9781108846554}} 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
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Category:Assassinated nobility