• General Notes

  TITLE: Heiress of BRABANT/ Saint Beggue
  MARRIED:  635
  NOTE:
  Biography from Dave Utzinger:
  St. Begga, widow (AD 693) - December 17
  Pepin of Landen, mayor of the palace to three Frankish kings, and himself commonly called Blessed, was married to a saint, Bd Itta or Ida, and two of their three children figure in the Roman Martyrology: St.
  Gertrude of Nivelles and her elder sister, St. Begga. Gertrude refused to marry and was an abbess soon after she was twenty, but Begga married Ansegisilus, son of St. Arnulf of Metz, and spent practically the
  whole of her long life as a nobleman's wife "in the world". Of this union was born Pepin of Herstal, the founder of the Carlovingian dynasty in France. After the death of her husband, St. Begga in 691 built at Andenne on the Meuse seven chapels representing the Seven Churches of Rome, around a central church, and in connection therewith she established a convent and colonized it with nuns from her long-dead sister's abbey at Nivelles. It afterwards became a house of canonesses and the Lateran canons regular commemorate St. Begga as belonging to their order. She is also venerated by the Beguines of Belgium as their patroness, but the common statement that she founded them is a mistake due to the similarity of the names. St. Begga died abbess of Andenne and was buried there.
  "Butler's Lives of the Saints," Complete Edition (originally by Alban
  Butler, 1759), edited revised & supplemented by Herbert J. Thurston &
  Donald Attwater, 1956; Christian Classics: Westminster, Maryland,
  1990.
  
  

Details of (Ste.) Beggue *'s family with (Duke) Anchises * Von Metz  Of AUSTRIA