Ansbald of Prüm

Saint Ansbald of Prüm (also Ansbold) was born in Luxembourg, was a monk at Prüm in Germany, then abbot of Saint-⁠Hubert in the Ardennes, and finally abbot of Prüm from 860 until his repose on 12 July 886. He was a friend and correspondent of Lupus of Ferrières. While still a monk at Prüm, between 840 and 844, he worked with Lupus on collating the writings of Cicero; in a letter of September 847 Lupus thanks him for copies of Cicero's letters and asks for a copy of In Arato.

He was elected abbot in 860 to succeed Eigil. Lupus addressed two letters to him, at the end of February 862 and on 7 March 862. In 861 King Lothair II granted him the right to a market and mint exempt from taxation at Romarivilla. After 870 he was an important supporter of King Louis the German in Lotharingia. On 12 April 870 Louis restored to Prüm lands near Bingen that had been seized by the rebellious count Werner, and in February 871 he confirmed further lands. In 882 the monastery was burnt down by the Vikings, but he succeeded in restoring it. He is commemorated on 12 July as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.