Saint Doda (Begue ) Saint Begga [2852] ²⁴

   FamilySearch ID: 9CWB-2KG.

  General Notes:

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 pla ce
where she died. 17 Dec is her feast day.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal05609

http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps04/ps04_317.htm


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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begga

She is commemorated as a saint on her feast days, 6 September and 17 December.

Doda married Anchises (Ansegisel) [2853] [9CNZ-VCC] [MRIN: 781], son of Saint Arnold (St.Arnulf ) of Metz de Heristal Bishop of Metz [10849] and Oda of Saxony de Savoy Nun at Treves [60432]. (Anchises (Ansegisel) [2853] [9CNZ-VCC] was born in 602 in Austrasia, France, died in 629 in Andene Monastery and was buried in Andene Monastery.). The cause of his death was Killed While Hunting.