General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> /St. Beggue/
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Notes for Ste. Begga of LANDEN
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
fo 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. (Andre Roux: Scrolls, 191.) (Stuart, Royalty for
Commoners, Page 192, Line 260-45.) (Andre Castelot, Histoire De La
France, Tome 1, Page 369.).
The Calendar of the Saints says after her husband was killed hunting she
decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome. On returning home she founded seven
churches at Ardenne of the Meuse. She also set up an
abbey at the same place where she died. 17 Dec is her feast day.
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Note:
[Verhaal.ftw]
Notes for Ste. Begga of LANDEN
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
fo 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. (Andre Roux: Scrolls, 191.) (Stuart, Royalty for
Commoners, Page 192, Line 260-45.) (Andre Castelot, Histoire De La
France, Tome 1, Page 369.).
The Calendar of the Saints says after her husband was killed hunting she
decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome. On returning home she founded seven
churches at Ardenne of the Meuse. She also set up an
abbey at the same place where she died. 17 Dec is her feast day.