| Saint Ansegisus | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 770 France |
| Died | 20 July 833 or 834 Fontenelle |
| Honored in | Roman Catholic Church |
Saint Ansegisus (c. 770 – 20 July 833 or 834) was a monastic reformer of the Franks.
Beginning his career as a monk at Fontenelle Abbey, he was soon given the task of reforming monasteries at St. Sixtus near Reims and St. Memius in the diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne, in which he was successful. Charlemagne then appointed him abbot of Saint-Germer-de-Fly Abbey and at the same time supervisor of royal works under the general direction of abbot Einhard. At Saint-Germer-de-Fly, he too was very successful.
In 817, Louis the Pious made him abbot of the famous Luxeuil Abbey , founded by Saint Columbanus as early as 590. Finally, having also reformed Luxeuil, he was transferred in 823, after the death of Einhard, as abbot to Fontenelle, where he had begun his monastic life and which he reformed as successfully as the previous monasteries . He was responsible for compiling a number of capitularies, a document of civil and ecclesiastical law which for many years was a standard legal text .
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.