Saint
Begga of Landen:
41st great-grandmother
Daughter
of Pepin I of Landen, mayor of the palace, and Saint Ida of Nivelles;
sister
of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles. Married Ansegilius, son of Saint Arnulf
of Metz. Mother of Pepin of Herstal, founder of the Carolingian dynasty
of rulers in France, in 635, and of Martin of Laon. On the death of
her husband in 691 in a hunting accident, she took the veil, founded
founded seven churches, and built a convent at Ardenne on the Meuse
River where she spent the rest of her days as abbess. |