Genealogische database BergSmit » Chlotarius II der Merovingen (584-628)

Personal data Chlotarius II der Merovingen 

Source 1
  • Alternative name: Chlotarius II de Grote
  • He was born in the year 584.
  • Profession: Koning van Neustrië (01-09-584). Koning van het gehele Frankische rijk (613-629)..
  • He died in the year 628, he was 44 years old.
  • A child of Chilperik I der Merovingen and Fredegonde van SOISSONS

Household of Chlotarius II der Merovingen

(1) He is married to Bertrude unbekannt.Source 2

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(2) He is married to Sichilde NN.Source 3

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Notes about Chlotarius II der Merovingen

Hij is overleden tussen 10-629 en 04-630.

Chlotarius II (584-629) was een zoon van Chilperik en Fredegonde. Hij werd geboren in het voorjaar van 584 en was enkele maanden oud toen zijn vader Chilperik stierf. Hij werd de Neustrische koning met zijn moeder Fredegonde als regentes.
In 597 overleed zijn moeder. De nieuwe regentes was onbekend. In 598 werd hij meerderjarig. Koning Chlotarius en zijn hofmeier Pippijn vallen de Austrasische en Bourgondische koningen Theodebert en Theodorik aan. Zij vielen Chlotarius nog eens aan, maar raakten in oorlog. In voorjaar 612 werd Theodebert vermoord.
Theodorik was koning van het hele rijk op het rijk van Chlotarius na. Wel was hij een groot gevaar. Dit duurde slechts enkele maanden. Toen stierf hij onverwacht. Sigebert, zoon van Theodebert, werd koning van beide landen.
In 613 viel Chlotarius Sigebert en zijn overgrootmoeder/regentes Brunhilde aan. Hij doodde hen en na 52 jaar was het rijk weer een.
Tien jaar later dwongen de Austrasische edelen zijn 15 jaar oude zoon Dagobert tot Austrasisch koning te maken. Na een paar jaar ontwikkelde die zich tot een sterke leider en hij verwierf ook Bourgondië. Bij de dood van Chlotarius, najaar 629, werd Neustrie voor Dagobert en Aquitanie (West-Bourgondie) voor Charibert, de tweede zoon van Chlotarius, die 19 was. Dit was het eind van een groot vorst.
Clotaire II (584-629), called the Great (le Grand) or the Young (le Jeune), King of Neustria, and from 613-629 King of all the Franks, was not yet born when his father, King Chilperic I died in 584. His mother, Queen Fredegonde, was regent until her death in 597, at which time the thirteen year old Clotaire II began to rule for himself. As King, he continued his mother's feud with Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia with equal viciousness and bloodshed.
In 599, he made war with his cousins, Theuderic II of Burgundy and Theudebert II of Austrasia, who defeated him at Dormelles (near Montereau). At this point, however, the two brothers took up arms against each other. In 605, he invaded Theuderic's kingdom, but did not subdue it. He remained often at war with Theuderic and the latter died in Metz in late 613 while preparing a campaign against him. At that time, Warnachar, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, and Rado, mayor of the palace of Burgundy, abandoned the cause of Brunhilda and her great-grandson, Sigebert II, and the entire realm was delivered into Clotaire's hands. Brunhilda and Sigebert met Clotaire's army on the Aisne, but the Patrician Aletheus, Duke Rocco, and Duke Sigvald deserted the host and the grand old woman and her king had to flee. As far as the Orbe they got, but Clotaire's minions caught up with them by the lake Neuchâtel. Both of them and Sigebert's younger brother Corbo were executed by Clotaire's orders.
In that year, Clotaire II became the first king of all the Franks since his grandfather Clotaire I died in 561 by ordering the murder of the infant Sigebert II (son of Theuderic), whom the aging Brunhilda had attempted to set on the thrones of Austrasia and Burgundy, causing a rebellion among the nobility. This led to the delivery of Brunhilda into Clotaire's hands, his thirst for vengeance leading to his formidable old aunt enduring the agony of the rack for three whole days, before suffering a horrific death, chained between four horses that were goaded in separate directions, eventually tearing her apart.
In 615, Clotaire II promulgated the Edict of Paris, a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that reserved many rights to the Frankish nobles while it excluded Jews from all civil employment for the Crown. The ban effectively placed all literacy in the Merovingian monarchy squarely under ecclesiastical control and also greatly pleased the nobles, from whose ranks the bishops were ordinarily exclusively drawn. Clotaire was induced by Warnachar and Rado to make the mayoralty of the palace a lifetime appointment at Bonneuil-sur-Marne, near Paris, in 617. By these actions, Clotaire lost his own legislative abilities and the great number of laws enacted in his reign are probably the result of the nobles' petitions, which the king had no authority not to heed.
In 623, he gave the kingdom of Austrasia to his young son Dagobert I. This was a political move as repayment for the support of Bishop Arnulf of Metz and Pepin I, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, the two leading Austrasian nobles, who were effectively granted semi-autonomy.
Clotaire II died in 629 after 45 years on the throne, longer than any other Merovingian dynast. He left the crown greatly reduced in power and prepared the way for the rise of the mayors and the rois fainéants.
This individual was found on GenCircles at: http://www.gencircles.com/users/robgomes/3/data/11199

wissel: 20 april 2006
NOTE: CHLOTARIUS II (gest. 628), koning der Franken, jongste zoon vanChilperik I en
2 CONC Fredegonde, was koning van Neustrië (584-613) en na dedood van Brunhilde, die hij op wrede wijze liet ombrengen (613), koningvan het
2 CONC gehele Frankische Rijk (613-628).

"Chlotarius," Encarta® - Encyclopedie 2000 - Winkler Prins. ©
2 CONC 1993-1999Microsoft Corporation/Elsevier. Alle rechten voorbehouden.

Onder de Frankische koning Chlotarius II heerste betrekkelijke rust, medeomdat
2 CONC er geen leden van het koningsgeslacht meer over waren die alsconcurrent optraden en dus vermoord zouden moeten worden. Fredegariuszegt in
2 CONC zijn kroniek over Chlotarius het volgende:

'Chlotarius was zeer lijdzaam, hij was geestelijk ontwikkeld,godsdienstig, zeer
2 CONC vrijgevig voor de kerken en de bisschoppen en royaalin het uitdelen van gaven aan de armen. Hij toonde zich goedaardig
2 CONC enmedelijdend voor een ieder. Hij had een overdreven liefde voor de
2 CONC jachten gaf te veel gehoor aan de raadgevingen en inblazingen van vrouwen enjonge
2 CONC meisjes, waarvoor zijn getrouwe dienaren hem berispten.'(ChronicaFredegarii IV, 42)"Chlotarius II," Encarta® - Encyclopedie 2000 - Winkler Prins. ©1993-1999
2 CONC Microsoft Corporation/Elsevier. Alle rechten voorbehouden.

Gebeurtenis:
Beroep/titel
Koning van Neustrië (584-613) en van het gehele Frankische rijk
(613-628).

Gebeurtenis:
Occupation/title
King of Neustria (584-613) and of all Franks (613-628).

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