[3] The Gesta Dagoberti, a late and legendary source, claims that Ansoald was passing through Sicily on a diplomatic mission when King Dagobert I died (639).
The reported vision of a local hermit named John, supposedly told to Ansoald, describes Dagobert's narrow escape from Hell with the help of some saints.
[4][5] After the return to power of the mayor of the palace Ebroin in 674 or 675, Ansoald hosted the exiled Philibert of Jumièges and helped him found the new monastery of Noirmoutier [fr].
[7] According to the Deeds of the Bishops of Cambrai, Ansoald was at the royal palace when he learned of the miracles that followed the martyrdom of Leodegar.
Ansoald claim the body on the grounds that he was related by blood to the martyr and that Leodegar had also previously been abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Maixent [fr] in the diocese of Poitiers.