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Saint Ansegisus (c. 770 – 20 July 833 or 834) was a monastic reformer of the Franks.Born about 770 of noble parentage at the age of eighteen he entered the Benedictine monastery of Fontanelle (also called St. Vandrille after the name of its founder) in the diocese of Rouen. St. Girowald a relative of Ansegisus was then Abbot of Fontanelle. Upon the recommendation of the Abbot St. Girowald he was entrusted by the Emperor Charlemagne with the government and reform of two monasteries St.