The Starr Family of America

Notes
The earliest sources state that his father was ARNOLD (RIN 3666), but theconsensus among modern genealogists is that this cannot be correct, andthat his father was instead BAUDGISE, as stated in several independentsources of later date. In Settipani's "Les ancestres de Charlemagne", itis argued that ARNOLD was actually his father-in-law.
Weis' "Ancestal Roots . . ." (190:8) has him as the son of Duke BAUDGISEII.
Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (53:45) & (171:46), identify him as thefather of ST. CLODOULE.
The Hull University project contributes the following biography :
Feast day, 19 August. This Arnulf (Arnoul) passed his earlier life at thecourt of Theodebert II, king of Austrasia; through the marriage of hiselder son with a daughter of Pepin of Landen (St. Begga), he became anancestor of the Carolingian dynasty. At the age of thirty, he wanted toretire from public life, but instead in 614 he was chosen Bishop of Metz,though still a layman. He continued to act as adviser to King Chlotar II,whom he had helped to the Frankish throne, and was tutor to his sonDagobert. Arnulf made further attempts to resign his offices, but it wasnot till 629 that he was able to retire to the Vosges mountains. Here hisfriend St. Romaric had preceded him and begun the monastic community atHabend that was later called Remiremont. St. Arnulf settled near by, andlived there till his death twelve years later.
-The Avenel Dictionary of the Saints, Donald Attwater (New York; AvenelBooks, 1965).