King Dagobert I of AUSTRASIA

604 - 639  (35 years)

• Name	Dagobert I of AUSTRASIA
  Prefix	King
  Birth	604	Soissons, ons, Aisne, Picardie, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _FSFTID	GN2M-Q8L
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GN2M-Q8L
  _HASHTAG	KING
  	Designated Royal King
  _UID	026E000907984C77B47D9D9D77B992030B02
  Death	19 Jan 639	Epinay-Sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-DE-France, France
  Person ID	I28688	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2023

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  

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  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, Île-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, Île-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

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