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Acceded: 575 King of Austrasia and Burgundy Child 1: , Theudebert II of Austrasia, King of Austrasia Child 2: , Theuderic II of the Franks, King of the Franks
Childebert II of the Franks, King of the Franks Acceded: 575 Died: 596 Notes: King of Austrasia and Burgundy. Father: , Sigebert I of Austrasia, King of Austrasia Child 1: , Theudebert II of Austrasia, King of Austrasia Child 2: , Theuderic II of the Franks, King of the Franks
Biographical Notes
King of Austrasia 575-595, King of Burgundy 592-595. When his father was assassinated in 575, the 5-year old Childebert II succeeded as King of Austrasia. In 577, he was adopted by his childless uncle King Guntram of Burgundy, and the two made peace. In 581, his childless uncle Chilperic I of Soissons named Childebert II to be his successor, however when he died he had an infant son Chlotar II who inherited that throne. That year, a rivalry over cities belonging to Sigebert began between Guntram and Childebert, which was settled in Childebert's favor in 584. The next year, however, Guntra attacked and took many cities including Poitiers and Tours, but Guntram had to pull out for Chlotar's baptism (didn't occur yet). Childebert then accepted 50,000 gold pieces from the eastern emperor Maurice to drive the Lombards out of Italy, which he did not do. That year also, Queen Fredegund failed to assassinate Childebert. In 590, Childebert again invaded Italy, and made another truce with the Lombards. When Guntram died in 592, the Kingdom of Burgundy passed to him, now 22 years old. In 595, at the age of 25, King Childebert II, ruler over 2/3 of Frankish Gaul, was poisoned by a group of Austrasian nobles, and his young sons Theudebert II and Theuderic became kings of Austrasia and Burgundy, respectively, then under the control of their grandmother, Queen Brunhild.
!Hus. also King of Orleans and Burguney.
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Childebert II (c.570[1]-596) was the Merovingian king of Austrasia (which included Provence at the time) from 575 until his death in March 596,[2] as the only son of Sigebert I and Brunhilda of Austrasia; and the king of Burgundy from 592 to his death, as the adopted son of his uncles Chilperic and Gontran.
Childhood
When his father was assassinated in 575 by two slaves of Queen-consort Fredegund of Soissons,[3] Childebert was taken from Paris by Gundobald (according to one story, after being lowered from a window in a bag by his mother[4]), one of his faithful lords, to Metz (the Austrasian capital), where he was recognized as sovereign. He was then only five years old, and during his long minority the power was disputed between his mother Brunhilda and the nobles,[5] with Brunhilda being dominant until Childebert came of age in 585.
Chilperic I, king at Paris, and the Burgundian king Guntram, sought an alliance with Childebert, who was adopted by both in turn.[3] Because Guntram was lord of half of Marseille, the district of Provence became a centre of a brief dispute between the two.
Guntram allied with Dynamius of Provence, who instigated the canons of the Diocese of Uzès to elect their deacon Marcellus, as bishop in opposition to their already-elected bishop Jovinus, a former governor of Provence. While Jovinus and Theodorus, Bishop of Marseille, were travelling to the court of Childebert, Guntram had them arrested. Dynamius, meanwhile, blocked Gundulf, a duke of an important senatorial family and Childebert's former domesticus, from entering Marseille on behalf of Childebert. Eventually he was forced to yield, though he later arrested Theodore again and had him sent to Guntram. Childebert replaced him in Provence by Nicetius (585). Despite his revolt, Childebert formally restored Dynamius to favour on 28 November 587.
Heir, king and war leader
With the assassination of Chilperic in 584 and the dangers occasioned to the French monarchy by the expedition of Gundoald in 585, Childebert threw himself unreservedly to the side of Guntram. By the Treaty of Andelot of 587, Childebert was recognised as Guntram's heir, and with his uncle's help in 587 he quelled the revolt of Dukes Rauching, Ursio, and Berthefried,[6] and succeeded in seizing the castle of Woëvre.[7] Many attempts were made on his life by Fredegund, wife of Chilperic, who was anxious to secure Guntram's inheritance for her son Clotaire II. Childebert II had relations with the Byzantine Empire, and fought on several occasions in the name of the Emperor Maurice against the Lombards in Italy, with limited success.[8]
With Guntram, he authorized the Irish monk Saint Colomban to found the abbey of Luxeuil and two other monasteries in the heart of the Vosges and to work with his monks in the various missions and foundations in all the Frankish kingdoms.[9]
On the death of Guntram in 592, Childebert annexed the kingdom of Burgundy, and even contemplated seizing Clotaire's estates and becoming sole king of the Franks. However, he and his young wife Faileuba were poisoned to death in 596. He had two young sons: the older, Theudebert II, inherited Austrasia with its capital at Metz, and the younger, Theuderic II received Guntram's former kingdom of Burgundy, with its capital at Orléans.
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CHILDEBERT (570-[2/28] Mar 596). Gregory of Tours names Childebert as the son of Sigebert and Brunhild, specifying that he was barely five years old when he succeeded his father under the protection of "Duke Gundovald"[261]. "Hildebertus" is named as son of "Sigibertus" in the Regum Merowingorum Genealogia[262]. After the assassination of his father, he was taken to Metz and there recognised 25 Dec 575 as CHILDEBERT II King of the Franks. The Marii Episcopi Aventicensis Chronica names "Childebertus filius ipsius" when recording that he succeeded after his father was killed[263]. He was able to increase his own power in Austrasia largely due to the patronage of his uncle Gontran King of the Franks at Orléans, who adopted him as his successor in 577, recognised him as fit to rule in 584, and confirmed his succession at Andelot in 587[264]. He finally succeeded his uncle in Burgundy in 592, but died "in the fourth year after succeeding" according to Fredegar[265]. Paulus Diaconus states that it was alleged that "Childepertus rex Francorum" was poisoned aged 25 "cum uxore propria"[266]. Betrothed to THEODELINDIS, daughter of GARIBALD Duke of Bavaria & his wife Waldrada of the Lombards. Fredegar records that "Ago rex" married "Grimoaldi et Gundoaldi germanam…Teudelendæ ex genere Francorum", specifying that she had been betrothed to "Childebertus"[267]. m FAILEUBA, daughter of --- (-[596]). King Childebert's queen is named Faileuba in the Treaty of Andelot dated 28 Nov 587[268]. Paulus Diaconus says that it was alleged that "Childepertus rex Francorum" was poisoned aged 25 "cum uxore propria", although no reference to his wife's death has been identified in the Frankish sources[269]. [Mistress ---. As is shown below, one of the sources which reports the birth of Childebert's son Theodebert says that his mother was the king's concubine.] King Childebert II & his [wife/mistress] had one child:
a) THEODEBERT [Thibert] ([586]-executed Chalon 612).
King Childebert II & his wife, Faileuba, had three children:
b) THEODERICH (587-Metz 613). Gregory of Tours records the birth of Theoderich son of Childebert[288].
c) THEODILA (-after 613).
d) child (b and d 589). Gregory of Tours records that Queen Faileuba gave birth to a child who died almost immediately[310].
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