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Personal data Ansbert (senator) 

• He was born in the year 515.Source 1
• He died in the year 587, he was 72 years old.Source 1
• A child of Ferreolus (senator van Rodez) and Deuteria (Doda) van Montfaucon
• This information was last updated on February 5, 2020.

Household of Ansbert (senator)

He is married to Bilichilde van Keulen (van Soissons).

They got married on November 10, 553, he was 38 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. Arnoald bisschop van Metz  551-601 
2. Erchinoald  580-658

Notes about Ansbert (senator)

Ansbertus, was a mythical Gallo-Roman Senator. Proposed, by some modern genealogists, to be the son of Ferreolus, Senator of Narbonne and his wife Saint Dode. This would perhaps make him the great-grandson of Sigimerus (son of Clodius)and the Duchess of (Ferreoluus Tonantius, a Roman Senator). The much later Liber Historiae Francorum states that an Ansbertus married Blithilde (also called Bilichilde), and that she was the daughter of "Lothar the father of Dagobert", and then continues the line to the Pippinids through his son Arnoald and his grand-daughter Itta (mother of Pepin of Landen).

William of Malmesbury in his History of the Kings of England, repeats the line, without naming his source[1]

The chronological problems with the line as presented, have led modern genealogists to try to re-construct the line in various different ways to fix them.

Some modern reconstructions posit that Ansbertus' wife must be, instead of a daughter of Lothar II, a daughter of Lothar I and make her the offspring of his brief relationship with Waldrada, proposing the following offspring:

* Arnual or Arnoldus or Arnoald, Bishop of Metz and Margrave of Schelde
* Saint Munderic, Bishop of Arisitum
* Tarsicius or Tarsice
* Erchinoald, mayor of the palace of Neustria

However the contemporary source "The History of the Franks", by Gregory of Tours, our main source on the Merovingian's during the time of this supposed union, does not ascribe to Waldrada any children by her brief unmarried relationship with Chlothar.[2]

Footnotes
1. ^ "Chronicle of the Kings of England", William of Malmesbury, page 64
2. ^ "The History of the Franks" IV.9, by Gregory of Tours

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansbertus]

Senator, ook voor hem gold dat hij nergens door tijdgenoten genoemd werd en het waren slechts stambomen gemaakt in de Karolingische tijd die ons zijn naam gaven, er was echter aangetoond dat sommige van deze bronnen gekopieerd zijn van oude kronieken van Metz , ook andere, onomastische argumenten ondersteunen Ansbert als vader van Arnoald.
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