Family/Spouse: Martin de Laon. Martin (son of Bishop Ansegisal de Metz and Saint Begga de Landen) was born in 640 in Herstal, Liege, Belgium; died on 17 Jul 700 in Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Count Charibert de Laon, I was born in Nov 690 in Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 7 Dec 747 in Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France.
2. Rolande Merovingian was born in 710 in Aisne, Picardie, France; died in 750 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott, Cecil Lamar Moon, Lawrence Hood, and Lawrence Adolph Twomey

Notes:

Birth:
Ancient Neustria

Theodoric married Regent Clotilde de Metz. Regent (daughter of Bishop Ansegisal de Metz and Saint Begga de Landen) was born in 650 in Herstal, Liege, Belgium; died on 3 Jun 693 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott and Lawrence Adolph Twomey

Notes:

Birth:
(Heristal, formerly Neustria or Austrasia)

Clovis married Queen of Neustria and Burgundy Saint Bathilde in 649. Saint was born in 635 in Belgium; died on 30 Jan 679 in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Meaux, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott and Cecil Lamar Moon
• Web Address: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1714
• Ordained: St. Balthildis was canonised by Pope Nicholas I, around 200 years after her death
• Religion: She had founded a Benedictine convent at Chelles, as well as St. Denis Monastery and Corbie

Notes:

Buried:
Abbey of Chelles

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Mack Ferrin Smith
• Web Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansegisel

Notes:

Birth:
Ancient Austrasia

Died:
He was killed sometime before 679, slain in a feud by his enemy Gundewin

Ansegisal married Saint Begga de LandenMetz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Saint (daughter of Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia Saint Pepin de Landen, I and Saint Itta de Metz) was born about 613 in Liege, Belgium; died on 17 Dec 693 in Ardennes, Hainaut, Belgium; was buried in Andenne, Namur, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott, Mack Ferrin Smith, Lawrence Hood, Lawrence Adolph Twomey, and Cecil Lamar Moon
• Occupation: Abbess
• Ordained: St. Begga is commemorated as a saint on her feast days, 6 September and 17 December. Some hold that the Beguine movement which came to light in the 12th century was actually founded by St. Begga
• Religion: On the death of her husband, she took the veil, founded seven churches, and built a convent at Andenne on the Meuse River (Andenne sur Meuse) where she spent the rest of her days as abbess

Notes:

Buried:
(Saint Begga's Collegiate Church)

Dagobert married Nantilde de NeustriaClichy, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. Nantilde was born in Apr in Normandy, France; died in Landry, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Lawrence Adolph Twomey, Retha Zulma Gott, and Cecil Lamar Moon
• Name: Arnoul
• Occupation: Bishop of Metz
• Ordained: St. Arnulf of Metz was canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. In iconography he is portrayed with a rake in his hand. He is the Patron Saint of Brewers
• Religion: He retired around 628 to a hermitage at a mountain site in the Vosges, to realize his lifelong resolution to become a monk and a hermit
• _ORDI: St. Arnulf of Metz was canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. In iconography he is portrayed with a rake in his hand. He is the Patron Saint of Brewers

Notes:

Birth:
(Heristal, formerly Neustria or Austrasia)

Buried:
(Remiremont Abbey)

Saint married Clothilde de Heristal about 596. Clothilde (daughter of King of Kent Saint Aethelbert of Kent, I and Queen of Kent Saint Berthe 'Aldeberge' de Heristal) was born about 585 in Herstal, Liege, Belgium; died on 23 Oct 640 in Tréves, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Dode
• Religion: Nun at Trêves

Notes:

Birth:
(Metz, at Heristal, formerly Neustria or Austrasia)

Died:
(Rhenish Prussia)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott, Mack Ferrin Smith, Lawrence Hood, Lawrence Adolph Twomey, and Cecil Lamar Moon
• Name: the Elder
• Ordained: St. Pepin of Landen was never canonized, he is listed as a saint in some old martyrologies. His feast day was 21 February.
• Religion: Pepin earned a reputation for defending the interests of the Church, promoting the spread of Christianity, and working to have only truly worthy bishops appointed to Frankish sees

Saint married Saint Itta de Metz. Saint (daughter of Governor of Aquitaine de Tongres Arnoldus de Metz and Oda von Swabia) was born in 592 in Liege, Belgium; died in 652 in Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Kinfolk of Note: Direct Ancestor of Retha Zulma Gott, Mack Ferrin Smith, Lawrence Hood, and Lawrence Adolph Twomey
• Name: Ida Nivelles
• Occupation: Abbess
• Ordained: St. Itta de Metz's memorial is May 8
• Religion: She founded the Benedictine nunnery at Nivelles

Notes:

Died:
Abbey of Nivelles