Family of Ansbertus + and Blithilde + of COLOGNE

Husband: Ansbertus +

Wife: Blithilde + of COLOGNE

Child 1: Gertrudis + of FRANCONIA

Note on Husband: Ansbertus +

http://www.royalancestorscollins.com/roman-senator.htm calls him "Lord on the Moselle, Margrave on the Shelde, Gallo-Roman Senator." This web site states that Ansbertus had a daughter, Gertgrudis (died in 655) who married Richemere, Duke of Franconia. {See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/s081/f508684.htm (not verified) for another possible ancestry.} Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansbertus.

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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).

Note on Wife: Blithilde + of COLOGNE

He married Blithilde, also called Bilichilde (ca 538 – ca 603), "Blithilde filia Clotharii regis Francorum." or "filiam Hlotharii regis Francorum.", daughter of Chlothar I, King of the Franks, and wife Waldrada, a Lombard princess, before 555 and they had:

* Arnual or Arnoldus or Arnoald, Bishop of Metz and Margrave of Schelde * Saint Munderic, Bishop of Arisitum * Tarsicius or Tarsice