Erchinoald (also
Erkinoald and, in
French,
Erchenout) succeeded
Aega as the
mayor of the palace of
Neustria in 641 and succeeded
Flaochad in
Burgundy in 642 and remained such until his death in 658. According to
Fredegar, he was a relative (
consanguineus) of
Dagobert I's mother. Chaume cites the Notitia de Fundatione Monasterii Glanderiensis to suggest that Erchinoald was descended from the Gallo Roman senator
Ansbertus through a son of that senator also named Erchinoald and that Erchinoald's son Leudesius, and was therefore a descendant of the Gallo-Roman families of the Syagrii and Ferrèoli Erchinoald's relationship with Merovingian King Dagobert has been proposed to have been through his mother Gerberga, daughter of Burgundian dux Ricomeres (
fl. 575) and
Bertrude, her putative sister and mother of King Dagobert. Herchenfrida (Erchinfreda), mother of St
Desiderius of Cahors will have also been of this family as is further evidenced
inter alia by that Gallo Roman saint's close ties to King Dagobert, and a brother named "Syagrius".