of Metz, Saint Arnulf

Male 582 - 641  (59 years)


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  • Name of Metz, Arnulf  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Title Saint 
    Birth 582  Lay-Saint-Christophe, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Gender Male 
    Life Event Between 614 and 629  Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Bishop of Metz 
    FSID L5PF-TWQ  [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Death 18 Jul 641  Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Burial Aft 18 Sep 641  Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Person ID I33908  The Thoma Family
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

    Family ID F13659  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family of Metz, Doda,   b. 584, Kingdom of Austrasia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 640, Kingdom of Austrasia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Children 
     1. of Austrasia, Ansegisel,   b. 610, Kingdom of Austrasia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 670, Chaudfontaine, Liege, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F13270  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 582 - Lay-Saint-Christophe, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLife Event - Bishop of Metz - Between 614 and 629 - Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 18 Jul 641 - Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Aft 18 Sep 641 - Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • He is celebrate as a Saint of Jul 18th.
      please do not add any parents to Arnulf
      as no one knows who his parents are
      thanks

      Nothing is known about Arnulf's ancestors including his parents (see also: False Merovingians).

      Arnoul's ancestry has been debated since the 9th century. Contemporary documents say that he belongs to the highest Frankish nobility, while later genealogies attribute him as father to either the Bishop of Metz Arnoald or the ambassador of the Franks in Constantinople Bodogisel.

      quintessence - we don't know anything about its origin

      genealogy
      From the Frankish nobility, wealthy in the Metz and Verdun area;
      Sons: Saint Chlodulf, Bishop of Metz and Ansegisel (⚭ Begga, T Pippins the Elder).

      Flavius Afranius Syagrius, of Lyons; a Gallo-Roman senator

      (Syagria), his unknown daughter; married Ferreolus

      Tonantius Ferreolus, a Gallo-Roman senator; married Papianilla, clarissima femina, a relative of the Papianilla who was a daughter of the emperor Avitus, and who married Sidonius Apollinaris

      Tonantius Ferreolus, a Gallo-Roman senator; married Industria

      Ferreolus, a Gallo-Roman senator; married Dode, abbess of St.-Pierre de Rheims

      Ansbert, a senator; married Bilichilde

      Arnoald, Bishop of Metz L5PF-TWQ
      Dode, LVQY-22W probably his daughter; married St. Arnulf, Bishop of Metz

      Ansegisel, LDSS-SY2 probably their son; married St. Begga LDSS-HQZ ; daughter of Pepin I, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia

      Pepin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia; married Alpais / Alpaida 635-714 LDSS-4ZY

      Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia; married Rotrude 689-741

      Pepin the Short, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia; married Bertrada of Laon 714-768
      Charlemagne 748-814

      There are three legends associated with Arnulf:
      The Legend of the Ring[edit]
      Arnulf was tormented by the violence that surrounded him and feared that he had played a role in the wars and murders that plagued the ruling families. Obsessed by these sins, Arnulf went to a bridge over the Moselle river. There he took off his bishop's ring and threw it into the river, praying to God to give him a sign of absolution by returning the ring to him. Many penitent years later, a fisherman brought to the bishop's kitchen a fish in the stomach of which was found the bishop's ring. Arnulf repaid the sign of God by immediately retiring as bishop and becoming a hermit for the remainder of his life.[11]
      The Legend of the Fire[edit]
      At the moment Arnulf resigned as bishop, a fire broke out in the cellars of the royal palace and threatened to spread throughout the city of Metz. Arnulf, full of courage and feeling unity with the townspeople, stood before the fire and said, “If God wants me to be consumed, I am in His hands.” He then made the sign of the cross at which point the fire immediately receded.
      The Legend of the Beer Mug[edit]
      It was July 642 and very hot when the parishioners of Metz went to Remiremont to recover the remains of their former bishop. They had little to drink and the terrain was inhospitable. At the point when the exhausted procession was about to leave Champigneulles, one of the parishioners, Duc Notto, prayed “By his powerful intercession the Blessed Arnold will bring us what we lack.” Immediately the small remnant of beer at the bottom of a pot multiplied in such amounts that the pilgrims' thirst was quenched and they had enough to enjoy the next evening when they arrived in Metz. For this reason he is known as the patron saint of Brewers.

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