Beggue Landon
Beggue Of Landon, Female 613 - 17 December 693
Born, Landen, Liege, Belgium.
Died, Ardenne, Belgium.
Married to (Unknown) Ansigisen. Mother of Martin De Laon. Daughter of Pepin De Landen and Itte De Metz. Sister of Alberic De Blois.
lf commonly called Blessed, was married to a saint, Bd Itta or Ida, and two fo their three children figure in the Roman Martyrology:ed to marry and was an abbess soon after she was twenty, but Begga married Ansegisilus, son of St. Arnulf of Metz, and spent". 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.).ecided to make a pilgrimage to Rome. On returning home she founded seven churches at Ardenne of the Meuse. She also set up anlf commonly called Blessed, was married to a saint, Bd Itta or Ida, and two fo their three children figure in the Roman Martyrology:ed to marry and was an abbess soon after she was twenty, but Begga married Ansegisilus, son of St. Arnulf of Metz, and spent". 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.).ecided to make a pilgrimage to Rome. On returning home she founded seven churches at Ardenne of the Meuse. She also set up an
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