Ansbertus

Ansbertus (505 or ca 535 – 570 or 611), "Ansbertus nobilissimus genuit Arnoldum ex Blitchildi filia Clotharii regis Francorum, et Feriolum et Modericum et Tarsiciam.", was a Gallo-Roman Senator. He was the son of Ferreolus, Senator of Narbonne (born 470) and his wife Saint Dode. He was the great-grandson of Tonantius Ferreolus and wife Papianilla.

Marriage and issue

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

ources, references and citations

* "The Royal Ancestry Bible Royal Ancestors of 300 Colonial American Families" by Michel L. Call (chart 2074) ISBN 1-933194-22-7
* Weis, Frederick Lewis "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came To America Before 1700" (7th ed.), lines 180 (all) & 190-9
* "New England Historic and Genealogical Register" 101:112
*Christian Settipani, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne (France: Éditions Christian, 1989).
*Christian Settipani, Continuite Gentilice et Continuite Familiale Dans Les Familles Senatoriales Romaines A L'epoque Imperiale, Mythe et Realite, Addenda I - III (juillet 2000- octobre 2002) (n.p.: Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2002).
* Various Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hiersemann, 1923-1925).