Bishop Ansfried of Utrecht was the sword-bearer for
Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor[?]. He was married to Heresuint or Hilsondis. After his wife's death Ansfried wanted to become a monk. However the emperor Otto made him a bishop. Anfried became the bishop of
Utrecht (995-1010), today in Netherlands, then a part of the
Holy Roman Empire. Before that Ansfried had founded the abbey of
Thorn, near the present-day border between
Belgium and the Netherlands. In the abbey of
Thorn, Ansfried invested his daughter as abbess.