König Dagobert DER FRANKEN I [7906] ¹⁸⁸⁴

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Dagobert I (Latin: Dagobertus; c. 603 \endash 19 January 639 AD) was the king of Austrasia (623\endash 634), king of all the Franks (629\endash 634), and king of Neustria and Burgundy (629\endash 639). He was the last king of the Merovingian dynasty to wield any real royal power.[2] Dagobert was the first of the Frankish kings to be buried in the royal tombs at Saint Denis Basilica.[3]

Rule in Austrasia
Dagobert was the eldest son of Chlothar II and Haldetrude (575\endash 604) and the grandson of Fredegund.[4] Chlothar had reigned alone over all the Franks since 613. In 622, Chlothar made Dagobert king of Austrasia,[5] almost certainly to bind the Austrasian nobility to the ruling Franks.[4] As a child, Dagobert lived under the care of the Carolingian dynasty forebears and Austrasian magnates, Arnulf of Metz and Pepin of Landen.[6]

Chlothar attempted to manage the unstable alliances he had with other noble families throughout much of Dagobert's reign.[7] 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\emdash who incidentally established monasteries in Alsace and Burgundy[8]\emdash 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.[9]

United rule

Upon the death of his father in 629, Dagobert inherited the Neustrian and Burgundian kingdoms. His half-brother Charibert, son of Sichilde, claimed Neustria but Dagobert opposed him. Brodulf, brother of Sichilde, petitioned Dagobert on behalf of his young nephew, but Dagobert assassinated him and became sole king of the Franks. He later gave the Aquitaine to Charibert as a "consolation prize."[10] In 629, Dagobert concluded a treaty with the Byzantine emperor Heraclius, which entailed enforcing the compulsory baptism of Jews throughout his kingdom.[11] Besides signing this treaty, Dagobert also took steps to secure trade across his empire by protecting important markets along the mouth of the Rhine at Duurstede and Utrecht, which in part explains his later determination to defend the Austrasian Franks from the Avar menace.[12]

Under the rule of Dagobert's father and like-minded Merovingians, Frankish society during the seventh-century experienced greater integration\emdash the Catholic faith became predominant for instance\emdash and a generally improved economic situation, but there was no initial impetus for the political unification of Gaul. Clothar II did not seek to force his Neustrian neighbors into submission, choosing instead a policy of cooperation.[13] This did not prohibit plunder-raids to replenish the dynastic coffers, which Dagobert undertook in Spain for example\emdash one raid there earned him 200,000 gold solidi.[14] Historian Ian Wood claims that Dagobert "was probably richer than most Merovingian monarchs" and cites for example his assistance to the Visigoth Sisenand\emdash whom he aided in his rise to the Visigothic throne in Spain\emdash and for which, Sisenand awarded Dagobert a golden dish weighing some five-hundred pounds.[15]

When Charibert and his son Chilperic were assassinated in 632, Dagobert had Burgundy and Aquitaine firmly under his rule, becoming the most powerful Merovingian king in many years and the most respected ruler in the West. In 631, Dagobert led a large army against Samo, the ruler of the Slavic Wends, partly at the request of the Germanic peoples living in the eastern territories and also due to Dagobert's quarrel with him about the Wends having robbed and killed a number of Frankish merchants.[16] While Dagobert's Austrasian forces were defeated at the Wogastisburg,[17] his Alemmanic and Lombard allies were successful in repelling the Wends.[18] Taking advantage of the situation at the time, the Saxons offered to help Dagobert if he agreed to rescind the 500 cow yearly tribute to the Austrasians. Despite accepting this agreement, Fredegar reports that it was to little avail since the Wends attacked again the following year.[18]

Rule in Neustria, from Paris
Also in 632, the nobles of Austrasia revolted under the mayor of the palace, Pepin of Landen. In 634, Dagobert appeased the rebellious nobles by putting his three-year-old son, Sigebert III, on the throne, thereby ceding royal power in the easternmost of his realms, just as his father had done for him eleven years earlier. In historian Ian Wood's view, Dagobert's creation of a sub-kingdom for his son Sigibert had "important long-term implications for the general structure of Merovingian Francia."[19]

King of the Franks. In 622 Dagobert's father made him king of Austrasia, a political move calculated to bind the nobility to the Franks. After his father's death, he inherited the Neustrian and Burgundian kingdoms. By 632, he also had Burgundy and Acquitaine under his rule, becoming the King of all Franks. He made Paris his capital. He built the Altes Shloss in Meersburg still in use today and supervised the construction of Saint Denis Basilica. Despite a lukewarm military record, he did protect his lands against various raiders and invaders. He was considered one of the most powerful Merovingian kings and one of the most respected. He was the first king to be buried in Saint Denis Basilica. His life and reign prompted a biography in 830, a nursery rhyme "Le bon Roi Dagobert" in 1750 and as late as 1984, a comedy with the same name.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Clan: House of Merovingians, on an unknown date,. ¹⁸⁸⁵

2. Death: Died from fever and dysentery., on an unknown date,. ¹⁸⁸⁵

Dagobert married Gomatrude DE AUSTRASIE [7907] [MRIN: 5789], daughter of Brunulphe II D'ARDENNES [7911] and Chlotilde DE NEUSTRIE [7912]. (Gomatrude DE AUSTRASIE [7907] was born about 605 in Sedan, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France ¹⁸⁸⁴.)