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Birth:          ABT  570 
Death:           595 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childebert_II
Childebert II (570–595) was the Merovingian king of Austrasia, which included 
Provence at the time, from 575 until his death in 595, the eldest and succeeding son 
of Sigebert I, and the king of Burgundy from 592 to his death, as the adopted and 
succeeding son of his uncle Guntram.

Childhood[edit]

When his father was assassinated in 575,[1] Childebert was taken from Paris by 
Gundobald, 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.

Chilperic I, king at Paris, and the Burgundian king Guntram, sought an alliance with 
Childebert, who was adopted by both in turn.[2] 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 Marcela, as bishop in opposition to their already-elected 
bishop Jovinus, a former governor of Provence. While Jovinus and Theodore, 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[edit]

But with the assassination of Chilperic in 584 and the dangers occasioned to the 
Frankish monarchy by the expedition of Gundoald in 585, Childebert threw himself 
unreservedly into the arms of Guntram. By the Treaty of Andelot of 587, Childebert 
was recognised as Guntram's heir, and with his uncle's help he quelled the revolts of 
the nobles and succeeded in seizing the castle of Woëwre. 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.

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. 
He died, however, in 595. 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.[3]

He had two sons: the older being Theudebert II who inherited Austrasia with its capital 
at Metz, and the younger being Theuderic II who received Guntram's former kingdom 
of Burgundy, with its capital at Orléans.

Parents
____ Siegbert I ( 526 -  575)
OF AUSTRASIA Brunhild (ABT  535 -  613)

Siblings
OF THE FRANKS Chodoswintha (ABT  550 - )
____ Childebert II (ABT  570 -  595)

Marriage To ____ Faileube ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ____ Faileube 
____ Theudebert II ( 586 -  612)

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