, abbot of Lobies, an old Benedictine motiastery upon the Sambre, in
, abbot of Lobies, an old Benedictine motiastery upon the Sambre, in the diocese of Cambray, lived
in the ninth century. Pithseus, Antonius, Augustinus,
Valerius, Andreas, and others, being too implicit in following Trithemius, have made this Ansegisus and another
of that name, archbishop of Sens, the same persons. Our
Ansegisus of Lobies was in great esteem with the bishops
and princes of his time, and his learning and conduct deserved it. In the year 827, he made a collection of the
capitularies of Charlemagne, and Lewis his son, entitled
“Capitula seu Edita Caroli Magni & Ludovici pii Imperatorum.
” We have several editions of this work one
printed in 1588, by Pithaeus, with additions, and notes of
his own upon it: it was afterwards printed at Mentz in
1602, and by Sirmundus at Paris in 164-0, to which he
added a collection of the capitularies of Charles the Bald.
Lastly, in 1676, Baluzius furnished a new edition of all
these ancient capitularies, with remarks upon them, two
volumes in folio. But Baluzius’s impression differs considerably from those before him; for, besides a great many
different readings, there are the 39th, 52d, 67th, 68th,
74th, and 79th chapters of the first book wanting: there
are likewise added, the 89th and 90th chapters of the third
book; and also the 76th and 77th chapters of the fourth
book, which yet, as Le Cointe observes, are the same with
the 29th and 24th chapters. There are three appendixes
annexed to the four books in the Capitularies, the first of
which, in the old editions, consists of 33 chapters, but in
the Baluzian there are 35. The second, in the old editions, has 36 chapters, but the Baluzian impression reaches
to 38. The third appendix contains 10 chapters; with
these appendixes, several constitutions of the emperors
Lotharius and Charles the Bald are mixed. He died in
the year 834.