Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Count of Chaumontois
• FSID: G4B1-48V
• Appointments / Titles: Between 690 and 708, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; Duke of Champagne

Notes:

Drogo (c.675 – 708) was a Frankish nobleman, the eldest son of Pippin of Heristal and Plectrude. He was the duke of Champagne from the early 690s.

Drogo was born shortly after his parents' marriage, which probably took place in 675 or just after. In the early 680s, Pippin arranged the marriage of Drogo with Anstrudis (or Adaltrudis), the daughter of Waratto, the mayor of the palace in Neustria, and his wife Ansfledis. The marriage took place toward the end of the decade or in the early 690s. Drogo and Anstrudis had four sons: Arnulf, who succeeded him as duke of Champagne; Hugh, who entered the church and rose to become an archbishop; Gotfrid; and Pippin.

The marriage of Drogo and Anstrudis increased his father Pippin's influence in Neustria. Waratto's family properties were located mainly in the vicinity of Rouen. Drogo, however, was made duke in Champagne, a frontier region between Neustria and Austrasia. His power in Champagne was enhanced through his control of the monastery of Montier-en-Der and possibly the monastery of Hautvillers.

The Liber Historiae Francorum, a history of the Franks written in Neustria in 727, portrays the Austrasian Drogo as sympathetic to the Neustrians because of his marital connections. He did, however, fall foul of the abbey of Saint-Denis, which sued him in the king's court in a property dispute. King Childebert III ruled in Saint-Denis's favour. Drogo also lost a lawsuit over the villa of Noisy-sur-Oise with the monastery of Tussonval in 697.

Drogo predeceased his father, dying in 707, according to the Gesta abbatum Fontanellensium, or in 708, according to most of the annals. He was buried in the church of Saint Arnulf at Metz, to which his four sons made a grant of land in his honour in June 715. The Annales Mettenses record that Grimoald succeeded Drogo in all his offices, but in fact his son Arnulf succeeded him as duke. The death of Drogo was perceived by later generations as a pivotal event in the history of the Carolingian dynasty. Several of the imperial annals written in the late eighth century begin their year-by-year accounts with 708. These include the Annales Alamannici, Annales Nazariani and Annales Laureshamenses.

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Drogo (Dreux) Каролинг (Шампанский), duc de Champagne et Bourgogne
English (default): Drogo (Dreux), duc de Champagne et Bourgogne, Russian: Дрого Каролинг (Шампанский), duc de Champagne et Bourgogne
Birthdate: 670
Birthplace: Heristal, Leige Province, Belgium
Death: March 24, 708 (37-38)
Aisne, Picardie, France
Place of Burial: Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
Immediate Family:
Son of Pépin ll "the Fat" d'Héristal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia and Plectrude

Husband of Adaltrudis

Father of
Arnoul ll de Champagne, comte de Chaumontois;
Hugh de Champagne-Fontenelle, Fontenelle;
Grimoald and
Pepin de Champagne, de Herstal

Brother of Grimoald II the Younger
Half brother of Charles Martel and Sylvius Heristal, Bishop
Occupation: Duc de Champagne et de Bourgogne, Mayor of the Palace of Burgundy, hertog Bourgondie/Champagne

Drogo married de Neustrie, AdaltrudeLa Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France. Adaltrude (daughter of Waratto and Berthar, Ansflede) was born in 667 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died in UNKNOWN in Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. de Champagne, Godfried was born in 700 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died in 735 in France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Mayor of Austrasia
• House: House of Pippinids
• FSID: LDSS-4ZY

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepin_of_Herstal also https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131325529/pepin_ii-of_herstal
https://gw.geneanet.org/zanel?lang=fr&p=pepin+ii&n=de+herstal

Pippin married von Köln, Plectrude in 670. Plectrude was born in 655 in Kingdom of Austrasia; died on 10 Aug 725 in Köln, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was buried after 10 Aug 725 in Saint Maria, Köln, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: MWYQ-BV8

Notes:

Wikipedia

Plectrude (Latin: Plectrudis; German: Plektrud, Plechtrudis)[1] (died 718) was the consort of Pepin of Herstal, the mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks, from about 670. She was the daughter of Hugobert, seneschal of Clovis IV, and Irmina of Oeren. She was the regent of Neustria during the minority of her grandson Theudoald from 714 until 718.

Biography
Plectrude was described as politically active and influential upon her husband and his reign. She brought a large amount of property to the Arnulfing house.[2] During the reign of Pepin, she appears as his joint signatory in every legal instrument issued by him that is still preserved, which was unusual for this time period.

Her son Grimoald was murdered in 714. She ensured Pepin II's assent that Theudoald, Grimoald's son, would be his main heir. When Pepin died soon thereafter, she took power in Neustria as regent of the under-age Theudoald. To ensure her reign, she imprisoned Charles Martel, Pepin II's son with his second wife Alpaida, in Cologne. Charles is often said to have been illegitimate, but this is considered by many today an anachronistic interpretation of his status. Charles' contemporaries most likely did not consider him illegitimate, as he was born while his mother Alpaida was married to Pepin the Frank, and noblemen practiced polygamy in this period.[3][4] In 715, the Neustrian nobility rebelled against her in alliance with Radbod of Friesland and defeated her in the Battle of Compiègne, which took place on September 26, 715, causing her to take refuge in Cologne. Cologne was the homeland of her family clan and where she kept Pepin's money.

In 716, Chilperic II, the king of the Franks, and Ragenfrid, the mayor of the palace, led an army into Austrasia, near Cologne, where Plectrude had gone. They defeated her and freed Charles Martel. The king and his mayor then turned to besiege their other rival in the city and claimed it. The treasury shortly after received recognition by the king and mayor.

The juncture of these events favored Charles. In 717, he chased the king and the mayor to Paris before turning back to deal with Plectrude in Cologne. He then took the city and dispersed her adherents. Plectrude entered a convent, and died shortly after in the same year in Cologne, where she was buried in the monastery of St. Maria im Kapitol which she had founded.[5]

Issue
Her sons by Pepin were:

Drogo, duke of Champagne
Grimoald, mayor of the palace of Neustria

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LDSS-SY2
• Life Event: Between 634 and 656, Kingdom of Austrasia; Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia

Notes:

Two more children were attributed to Ansegisel and Begga, but these proposals have been abandoned:

Martin († 690), count who fought in 690 against Ebroïn alongside Pépin the younger. This hypothesis is based on the Hagiolum Viennense, dating from 1040, which mentions Pipinus, Ansegelli filius, and Martinus frater eius (= "Pepin, son of Ansegisel, and Martin, his brother"). But this mention is now considered to be a misinterpretation of a passage from the Liber Historiae Francorum, which does not make it possible to specify the kinship between Pépin and Martin, or even if there is a kinship link.

Saint Landrada, founder of the Abbey of Munsterbilzen, whose late biography indicates that she was descended from Pépin and Arnulf († 690). Chronologically, she could only be the daughter of Ansegisel and Begga, but the biography insists on her being an only daughter.

Ansegisel married von Herstal, Begga in 634 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Begga (daughter of von Herstal, Pippin I and de Nivelles, Saint Iduberga) was born on 2 Jun 613 in Landen, Brabant Wallon, Belgium; died on 17 Dec 693 in Andenne, Namur, Belgium; was buried in 693 in Andenne, Namur, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LDSS-HQZ
• Religion: Roman Catholic

Notes:

After the demise of Grimoald in 662, the property passed to Ansegisel and Begga, the parents of Pippin II.

Begga founded seven churches in Andenne after Ansegisel's death

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: L5PF-TWQ
• Life Event: Between 614 and 629, Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; Bishop of Metz

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.

Arnulf married of Metz, Doda. Doda was born in 584 in Kingdom of Austrasia; died in 640 in Kingdom of Austrasia; was buried on 26 Oct 640 in Kingdom of Austrasia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LVQY-22W

Notes:

THIS IS NOT ST. DODA OR CLOTHILDE
it is not the same as Clothilde of Trèves !!
and she is not a Saint !
At time we know nothing about Arnulf's wife - only her name !
At this time we also do not know for certain who Arnulf's parents are.

Buried:
Kloster Trier

Other Events and Attributes:

• House: House of Pippinids
• FSID: LZPS-59C
• Occupation: Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia for Clotaire II and Dagobert, 1st Duke of Brabant, Maire du Palais d'Austrasie (626-629), , Major Domus for Clothar II, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
• Life Event: Between 615 and 629, Kingdom of Austrasia; Mayor Of The Palace of Austrasia

Notes:

Division of the kingdom
Internally, the kingdom was divided among Clovis's sons and later among his grandsons and frequently saw war between the different kings, who quickly allied among themselves and against one another. The death of one king created conflict between the surviving brothers and the deceased's sons, with differing outcomes. Later, conflicts were intensified by the personal feud around Brunhilda. However, yearly warfare often did not constitute general devastation but took on an almost ritual character, with established 'rules' and norms.[8]

Reunification of the kingdom
Eventually, Clotaire II in 613 reunited the entire Frankish realm under one ruler. Later divisions produced the stable units of Austrasia, Neustria, Burgundy and Aquitania.

The frequent wars had weakened royal power, while the aristocracy had made great gains and procured enormous concessions from the kings in return for their support. These concessions saw the very considerable power of the king parcelled out and retained by leading comites and duces (counts and dukes). Very little is in fact known about the course of the 7th century due to a scarcity of sources, but Merovingians remained in power until the 8th century.

Weakening of the kingdom
Clotaire's son Dagobert I (died 639), who sent troops to Spain and pagan Slavic territories in the east, is commonly seen as the last powerful Merovingian King. Later kings are known as rois fainéants[1] ("do-nothing kings"), despite the fact that only the last two kings did nothing. The kings, even strong-willed men like Dagobert II and Chilperic II, were not the main agents of political conflicts, leaving this role to their mayors of the palace, who increasingly substituted their own interest for their king's.[9] Many kings came to the throne at a young age and died in the prime of life, weakening royal power further.

Return to power[edit]
The conflict between mayors was ended when the Austrasians under Pepin the Middle triumphed in 687 in the Battle of Tertry. After this, Pepin, though not a king, was the political ruler of the Frankish kingdom and left this position as a heritage to his sons. It was now the sons of the mayor that divided the realm among each other under the rule of a single king.

Pippin married de Nivelles, Saint Iduberga. Iduberga was born in 592 in Kingdom of Austrasia; died on 8 May 652 in Kloster Nivelles, Nivelles, Brabant Wallon, Belgium; was buried after 8 May 652 in Nivelles, Brabant Wallon, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• House: House of Arnulfings
• FSID: 94RF-G6N
• Occupation: Benedictine Nun - Saint of Metz
• Religion: Saints in the Roman Catholic Church
• Life Event: Between 650 and 652; She founded the Abbey of Nivelles.

Notes:

Itta of Metz, O.S.B. (also Ida, Itte or Iduberga; 592–8 May 652) was the wife of Pepin of Landen, Mayor of the Palace of the Kingdom of Austrasia. After his death, she founded the Abbey of Nivelles, where she became a Benedictine nun along with her daughter, Gertrude of Nivelles. Both are honored as saints by the Catholic Church.

She married Pepin of Landen, Mayor of the Merovingian Royal Palace.[2] After Pepin's death in 640, Itta and her daughter, Gertrude, withdrew from the capital for a life of religious reflection.[1] Later, around 647, on the advice of Amandus, the Bishop of Maastricht, she founded the Abbey of Nivelles. The abbey was originally just a community of nuns, but it later became a double monastery when the nuns were joined by a group of Irish monks who offered them support in the operations of the abbey. She might have appointed her daughter, Gertrude, as its first abbess, while she herself lived there as a simple nun, assisting the young abbess by her advice.[3]

Itta died at the abbey on 8 May 652.[3]

Children
Itta had another daughter by Pepin, Abbess Begga of Andenne, who had married Ansegisel, son of Arnulf of Metz prior to joining the monastery.[1] By Begga, she is the grandmother of Pepin of Herstal and one of the matriarchs of the great Carolingian family.

Her sons were Grimoald, later Mayor of the Palace, and father of King Childebert the Adopted; Itta's second son Bavo (or Allowin), became a hermit and was later canonized. Both her daughters were also canonized, as was she. Her feast day is celebrated on 8 May.[3]

Patronage
Itta is honored as the patron saint of the French village of Itteville, which was founded on the site of a farm which she had established.