Ansa, queen consort of the Lombards

Sharon's Temporary Note Jan 2011: Sources please. The only source I can find in a quick Net search is [http://genealogiequebec.info/testphp/info.php?no=168888] It's not a good original source, so if you have better ones , please put them on so we can get it right.

From Justin Swanstrom: soc.genealogy.medieval has a discussion of the Lombard kings at http://tinyurl.com/6grxzk9/. It shows her father at Sigiprand, son of the Lombard king Ansprand, but there seems to be no primary sources. See MedLands.

Family

She has been called a daughter of Sigiprand, who was apparently also called Verissimo; a niece of king Liutprand; and a sister of king Ildeprand / Hildeprand (soc.genealogy.medieval).

Wikipedia

Ansa or Ansia was the wife of Desiderius, King of the Lombards. She was probably a Lombard, the daughter of Verissimo and sister of Arechis and Donnolo.

In or around 753, she founded the monastery of S. Michele and S. Pietro at Brescia. It later merged with that of S. Salvatore and S. Maria. After 759, she appeared frequently in Desiderius' diplomas and was probably the architect of his religious policy.

On 5 June 774, she was presented along with her husband to Charlemagne, who had conquered Pavia. She was sent with her husband and an unnamed daughter, probably Gerperga, to Liège or Corbie, but allowed to return in 775. Paul the Deacon wrote an Epitaphium Ansae reginae praising her politics, her piety, and her beauty: coniunx pulcherrima, "most beautiful wife".

Her children with Desiderius were a son and four daughters:

1. Anselperga (or Anselberga), abbess of San Salvatore
2. Adelperga (or Adelberga), married Arechis II of Benevento
3. Liutperga (also Liutpirc or Liutberga), married Tassilo III of Bavaria
4. Desiderata or Ermengarda, married Charlemagne in 768, divorced in 771
5. Adelchis (or Adalgis), patrician in Constantinople[9]

Gerberga is not proved as a daughter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansa,_Queen_of_the_Lombards