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Abt 678 - Yes, date unknown
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
2. | King Dagobert II Of AUSTRASIA was born in 652 (son of King Siegbert III Of AUSTRASIA and Immachilde (Chimnechild) of AUSTRASIA); died on 23 Dec 679. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: GJYJ-7Z5
- _UID: 70183CBF02E041BE840B7009780A99B0376D
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Dagobert II (Latin: Dagober(c)tus; Old English: D?gberht; died 679) was a Merovingian king of the Franks, ruling in Austrasia from 675 or 676 until his death. He is one of the more obscure Merovingians. He has been considered a martyr since at least the ninth century.
None of the narrative histories of the Merovingian period give an account of Dagobert's reign, which must be reconstructed from several different sources. Upon the death of his father in 656, he was deprived of the succession and exiled to Ireland to live as a monk. His return to Austrasia was arranged by Wilfrid, bishop of York. He ascended the throne following the assassination of his cousin in 675. During his brief reign he made war on the neighbouring Frankish kingdom of Neustria, signed a peace treaty with the Lombard Kingdom in Italy and reintroduced gold coinage.
The only near-contemporary assessment of Dagobert's character portrays him as a tyrant. He antagonized the bishops and imposed new taxes. He was assassinated by a conspiracy of the highest nobility. He was succeeded by his cousin, Theuderic III, king of Neustria, against whom he had previously warred.
Dagobert married Mechtilde (Gisella) De RAZES in 671. Mechtilde (daughter of Count Bera II De RAZES and Gislica Of The VISIGOTHS) was born about 652; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 3
4. | King Siegbert III Of AUSTRASIA was born in 629 in Austrasia; was christened in in Orleans (son of King Dagobert I of AUSTRASIA and Regintrude (concubine)); died in 656. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: GJT7-5BJ
- _UID: 28E15D0D7079473BB44BBCFBA24AD2D12391
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Sigebert was born in 629-630 as the eldest son of Dagobert I, King of the Franks, and his concubine Ragnetrude. The king recalled and made peace with Saint Amand, who was previously banished for criticizing the king's vices, and asked him to baptize his new-born son. The ceremony was performed at Orl?ans and Charibert II, Dagobert's half-brother who was King of Aquitaine at the time, was the god-father. Dagobert assigned the education of Sigebert to Pepin of Landen, who was the mayor of the palace in Austrasia under his father Chlotar II, until 629. Pepin took the young Sigebert and moved with him to his domains in Aquitane, where they stayed the next three years.
In 633, a revolt of the nobles forced Dagobert to make the three-year old Sigebert king of Austrasia, similar to how his father Chlotar II had made him king of Austrasia in 623. However, he refused to give the power to Pepin of Landen by making him mayor of the palace for the child-king. Instead he had put Sigebert under the tutelage of Adalgisel as mayor of the palace and the Bishop of Cologne Saint Cunibert as regent, while keeping Pepin in Neustria as hostage. In 634 Dagobert's second son, Clovis II, was born, and the king forced the nobles to accept him as the next king of Neustria and Burgundy, setting up a new division of the empire.
On the death of Dagobert in 639, the two Frankish kingdoms became independent once again under Sigebert III and Clovis II. Both kingdoms were under child-kings ? Sigebert was around eleven years old and Clovis was five ? and were ruled by the respective regents. It was under Seigbert's reign that the mayor of the palace began to play the most important role in the political life of Austrasia, and he has been described as the first roi fain?ant? do-nothing king? of the Merovingian dynasty.[4] Pepin replaced Adalgisel as mayor of the palace of Austrasia in 639 but died the following year, in 640, and was replaced by his son Grimoald.
Siegbert married Immachilde (Chimnechild) of AUSTRASIA about 651 in 2ND Marriage. Immachilde was born about 630 in Burgundy, France; died about 670. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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5. | Immachilde (Chimnechild) of AUSTRASIA was born about 630 in Burgundy, France; died about 670. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: GJT7-B5W
- _UID: 0ECC5365ABAD48619A65D495C99E889A8447
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She was the mother of Bilichild and Dagobert II. When Childebert the Adopted died, she opposed the succession of Theuderic III and arranged a marriage between her daughter and Childeric II, whose succession she supported.
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Generation: 4
8. | King Dagobert I of AUSTRASIA was born in 604 in Soissons, ons, Aisne, Picardie, France (son of King Chlothar II Of THE FRANKS and Hadeltrude); died on 19 Jan 639 in Epinay-Sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, ?le-DE-France, France. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: GN2M-Q8L
- _UID: 026E000907984C77B47D9D9D77B992030B02
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Dagobert was the eldest son of Chlothar II and Haldetrude (575? 604) and the grandson of Fredegund. Chlothar had reigned alone over all the Franks since 613. In 622, Chlothar made Dagobert king of Austrasia, almost certainly to bind the Austrasian nobility to the ruling Franks. As a child, Dagobert lived under the care of the Carolingian dynasty forebears and Austrasian magnates, Arnulf of Metz and Pepin of Landen.
Chlothar attempted to manage the unstable alliances he had with other noble families throughout much of Dagobert's reign.[8] When Chlothar granted Austrasia to Dagobert, he initially excluded Alsace, the Vosges, and the Ardennes, but shortly thereafter the Austrasian nobility forced him to concede these regions to Dagobert. The rule of a Frank from the Austrasian heartland tied Alsace more closely to the Austrasian court. Dagobert created a new duchy (the later Duchy of Alsace) in southwest Austrasia to guard the region from Burgundian or Alemannic encroachments and ambitions. The duchy comprised the Vosges, the Burgundian Gate, and the Transjura. Dagobert made his courtier Gundoin? who incidentally established monasteries in Alsace and Burgundy? the first duke of this new polity that was to last until the end of the Merovingian dynasty. While Austrasian rulers such as Chlothar and Dagobert controlled these regions through part of the seventh-century, they eventually became autonomous kingdoms as powerful aristocratic families sought separate paths across their respective realms.[
Events in the life of Dagobert I des Francs Death 19 Jan 0639, in Epinay-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, ?le-de-France, France. ?He was thirtysix when he died. He was the last of the great Merovingian kings. He had the ruthless energy of a Clovis and the cunning of a Charlemagne. He had come to rule over all the Franks by accident, and imposed on them, in their formative period, a personal, unitary rule. burial AFT 19 Jan 0639, in the basilica of Saint Denis, Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis, ?le-de-France, France. event 0629. ?succeeded his father to all three frankish kingdoms; Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy, birth 1 . ABT 0603. will 1 . Jan 0639. ?He left Austrasia to Sigebert, and Neustria and Burgundy to a younger son, Clovis. birth 1 , 2 . 0611.
Dagobert married Regintrude (concubine) in 630 in Concubine - 3Rd "Marriage". Regintrude (daughter of Nn AUSTRASIA) was born in 612; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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