ANSEGISO, SANTO

ANSEGISUS, St. — Benedictine, abbot of Fontenelle, born perhaps near Saint-Rambert in the diocese of Lyon c. 770 from an ancient noble family, died at Fontenelle on 20 July 833. Having been a monk of Fontanelle, now S. Vandrille (in the diocese of Rouen), he became in 807 abbot of St-Germer-de-Flay (diocese of Beauvais), which he restored. Charlemagne summoned him to Aachen and entrusted him with various offices and legations. Louis the Pious conferred upon him in 817 the abbacy of Luxeuil and in 823 that of Fontanelle, so that he simultaneously held three abbacies. At Fontenelle he published in 827 the *Libri IV Capitularium*, the oldest collection of Carolingian capitularies, covering the years 787–826, and systematically arranged according to ecclesiastical (I–II) and civil (III–IV) laws. It was edited in MGH, *Leges*, sect. I, vol. I, pp. 256–325, whence in PL 97, 489–590, and better by A. Boretius again in MGH, *Leges*, sect. II, vol. I, pp. 382–450. His feast is celebrated on 20 July.