General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> King of Austrasia & Neustria "The /Great"/
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Note: Han var konge av Austrasia 623-634.
Note: It is possible that wives Gometrude and Regintrude are the same
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1.  Dagobert I acceded 629.
Note: Dagobert I (died 639), king of the Franks (629-39), son of Clotaire
II. He became king of Austrasia in 623 and at the death of his father,
the sole king of the Franks. By 632, he had also brought Burgundy and
Aquitaine under his rule, becoming the most powerful of the Merovingian
kings and the most respected sovereign in the West. He made Paris his
capital. St.Éloi (588?-659) was Dagobert's principal adviser, and his
rule was marked by the building of numerous monasteries and the
strengthening of the royal power. At his death the Frankish kingdom was
divided between his sons.
0639 death of Dagobert brings an end to the Merovingians & begins rule by
mayors of the palace.
Note:
FROM: Encyclopedia Britannica, www.britannica.com, Internet.
DAGOBERT I (d. 639),
king of the Franks, was the son of Clotaire II. In 623 his father
established him as king of the region east of the Ardennes, and in 626
revived for him the ancient kingdom of Austrasia, minus Aquitaine and
Provence. As Dagobert was but yet a child, he was placed under the
authority of the mayor of the palace, Pepin, and Arnulf, bishop of Metz.
At the death of Clotaire II in 628, Dagobert wished to re-establish unity
in the Frankish realm, and in 629 and 630 make expeditions into Neustria
and Burgundy, where he succeeded on the whole in securing the recognition
of his authority. In Aquitaine he gave his brother Caribert the
administration of the counties of Toulouse, Cahors, Agen, Pérogeux and
Saintes; but at Caribert's death in 632 Dagobert became sole ruler of the
whole of the Frankish territories south of the Loire. Under him the
Merovingian monarchy attained its culminating point. He restored to the
royal domain the lands that had been usurped by the great nobles and by
the church; he maintained at Paris a luxurious, though, from the example
he himself set, a disorderly court; he was a patron of the arts and
delighted in the exquisite craftsmanship of his treasurer, the goldsmith,
St. Eloi. His authority was recognized through the length and breadth of
the realm. The duke of the Basques came to his court to swear fidelity,
and at his villa at Clichy the chief of the Bretons of Domnoné promised
obedience. He intervened in the affairs of the Visigoths of Spain and the
Lombards of Italy, and was heard with deference. Indeed, as a sovereign,
Dagobert was reckoned superior to the other barbarian kings. He entered
into relations with the eastern empire, and swore a "perpetual peace"
with the emperor Heraclius; and it is probable that the two sovereigns
took common measures against the Slav and Burgundian tribes which ravaged
in turn the Byzantine state and the German territories subject to the
Franks. Dagobert protected the church and placed illustrious prelates at
the head of the bishoprics---Eloi (Eligius) at Noyon, Ouen (Audoenus) at
Rouen and Didier (Desiderius) at Cahors. His reign is also marked by the
creation of numerous monasteries and by renewed missionary activity in
Flanders and among the Basques. He died on Jan 9, 639, as was buried at
St. Denis. After his death the Frankish monarchy was again divided. In
634 he had been obliged to give the Austrasians a special king in the
person of his eldest son Sigebert, and at the birth of a second son,
Colvis, in 635, the Neustrians had immediately claimed him as king. Thus
the unification of the realm, which Dagobert had re-established with so
much pains, was anulled.King of Franks Reigned BET 630 AND 638