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King Dagobert I of AUSTRASIA

King Dagobert I of AUSTRASIA[1]

Male 604 - 639  (35 years)

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  • Name Dagobert I of AUSTRASIA 
    Prefix King 
    Born 604  Soissons, ons, Aisne, Picardie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID GN2M-Q8L 
    _UID 026E000907984C77B47D9D9D77B992030B02 
    Died 19 Jan 639  Epinay-Sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, ?le-DE-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I28688  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2023 

    Father King Chlothar II Of THE FRANKS,   b. May 584, 10th King Of Austrasia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Oct 629, Paris, Seine, Ile-DE-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 45 years) 
    Mother Hadeltrude,   b. 585,   d. 604  (Age 19 years) 
    Married Bef 600 
    Family ID F4333  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Nantechild Of The FRANKS,   b. 610, Neustria, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 642  (Age 32 years) 
    Children 
     1. Clovis II (Chlodovech Louis) King Of The FRANKS,   b. 634, Neustria, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Nov 655, Frankish Kingdom Of Neustria (Northern France) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 21 years)
     2. Regintrude of AUSTRASIA,   b. Metz, Ni?vre, Bourgogne, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 725, Alia, Palermo, Sicilia, Italie Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2023 
    Family ID F12506  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Regintrude (concubine),   b. 612,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 630  Concubine - 3Rd "Marriage" Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. King Siegbert III Of AUSTRASIA,   b. 629, Austrasia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 656  (Age 27 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F12513  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Dagobert I of Austrasia
    Dagobert I of Austrasia

  • Notes 
    • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.

    2. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Dagobert I of AUSTRASIA, person ID GN2M-Q8L. (Reliability: 3).