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- [S14] Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiography, 640-720, Paul Fouracre, Richard A. Gerberding, ed., (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1996), ISBN-13: 978-0719047916., 311.
"St. Arnulf has generally been considered Ansegisel's father and thus Arnulf's large holdings between Metz and Verdun could reflect the family's landed origins. The familial connection between Ansegisel and Arnulf, however, seems to have been the result of later Carolingian desire to have Arnulf as the family's holy patriarch, and although much land around Metz did come under Pippinid control, this seems to have happened after the 670s, when the Pippinids returned to power."
- [S15] Charlemagne and Louis the Pious: Lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer, Thomas F. X. Noble, (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2009), Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-03573-4., 195, n. 1.
"Arnulf was critically important in Frankish politics in the first decades of the seventh century. He was bishop of Metz from 614 to 629. He retired as a recluse near the convent of Remiremont and died around 640. It was only at the end of the eigth century that sources with connections to the Carolingian court began to claim Arnulf as an ancestor of Charlemagne."
- [S16] Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages, Wendy Davies, Paul Fouracre, ed., (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), ISBN: 9780521522250., 32.
"[T]he Pippinid family, as it came to be remembered, is a construct of its Carolingian descendants. There is nothing before the days of Paul the Deacon to suggest that Arnulf was the father of Ansegisel."
- [S18] Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe, Barbara H. Rosenwein, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999), 127.
"[T]he Gesta presents a vision of two intertwined careers springing from the seed of Arnulf: bishop of Metz and king of the Franks. Allied by common purpose, they [Chlodulf and Ansegisel] triumphed in each other's victories and found protection in the same saintly patron." (parenthetical information added)
- [S17] Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900, Suzanne Fonay Wemple, (University Station, PA: Penn State University Press), ISBN 978-0-8122-1209-9., 54.
"When Begga, the daughter of the Austrasian mayor Pepin the Elder (d. 640), married Ansegisel, the son of Arnulf of Metz, the acendancy of the northeastern region over other parts of the kingdom was assured. This matrimonial alliance prepared the way for the replacement of the Merovingian ruling house by the Carolingian dynasty. The circumstances leading to this alliance are well known to historians. Almost as important was the union of Begga's and Ansegisel's son, Pepin the Middle (d. 714), and Plektrud, which has been analyzed by E. Hlawitschka. With the politcally powerful seneschal Hugobert as her father and the heiress Irmina as her mother, Plektrud was a coveted bride. Because she had only sisters and no brothers, she inherited vast domains in the country between the Rhine, the Moselle, and the Meuse, and these became the basis for her husban's political maneuvers. Her two sons futher enhanced Pepin's power by marrying women with political connections in the north and northwest. Drogo took as his wife Anstrud, the widow of Neustrian mayor of the palace; Grimoald married Theudesind, the daughter of the Frisian Chieftain. It was through the help of Drogo's mother-in-law Ansfled (Anseflidis) that Pepin was able to secure his hold over Neustria."
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