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DAGOBERT I . (d. 639), See also:

king of the See also:Franks, was the son of See also:Clotaire IT. In 623 his See also:father established him as king of the region See also:east of the See also:Ardennes, and in 626 revived for him the See also:ancient See also:kingdom of See also:Austrasia, minus See also:Aquitaine and See also:Provence. As Dagobert was yet but a See also:child, he was placed under the authority of the See also:mayor of the See also:palace, See also:Pippin, and See also:Arnulf, See also:bishop of See also:Metz. At the See also:death of Clotaire II. in 629, Dagobert wished to re-establish unity in the Frankish See also:realm, and in 629 and 63o made expeditions into See also:Neustria and See also:Burgundy, where he succeeded in securing the recognition of his authority. ,In Aquitaine he gave his See also:brother See also:Charibert the See also:administration of. the counties of See also:Toulouse, See also:Cahors, See also:Agen, Perigueux, and. See also:Saintes; but at Charibert's death in 632 Dagobert became See also:sole ruler of the whole of the Frankish territories See also:south of the See also:Loire. Under him the Merovingian See also:monarchy attained its culminating point. He restored to the royal domain the lands that had been usurped by the See also:great nobles and by the See also:church; he maintained at See also:Paris a luxurious, though, from the example he himself set, a disorderly See also:court; he was a See also:patron of the arts, and delighted in the exquisite craftsmanship of . his treasurer, the See also:goldsmith St See also:Eloi. His authority was recognized through the length and breadth. of the realm. The See also:duke of the See also:Basques came to his court to swear fidelity, and at his See also:villa at See also:Clichy the See also:chief of the Bretons of Domnone promised obedience.

He intervened in the affairs of the Visigoths of See also:

Spain and the See also:Lombards of See also:Italy, and was heard with deference. Indeed, as a See also:sovereign, Dagobert was reckoned See also:superior to the other See also:barbarian See also:kings. He entered into relations with the eastern See also:empire, and swore a " perpetual See also:peace " with the See also:emperor See also:Heraclius; and it is probable that the two sovereigns took See also:common See also:measures against the Slav and Bulgarian tribes,: which ravaged in turn the See also:Byzantine See also:state and the See also:German territories subject to the Franks. Dagobert protected the church and placed illustrious prelates at the See also:head of the bishoprics —Eloi (Eligius) at See also:Noyon,. Ouen (Audoenus) at See also:Rouen, and Didier (See also:Desiderius) at Cahors. His reign is also marked by the creation of numerous monasteries and by renewed missionary. activity, in See also:Flanders and among the Basques. He died on the 19th of See also:January 639, and was buried at St See also:Denis. After his death the Frankish monarchy was again divided. In 634 he had been obliged to give the Austrasians a See also:special king in the See also:person of his eldest son See also:Sigebert, and at the See also:birth of,a second son, See also:Clovis, 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 annulled. See the Chronicon of Fredegarius; " Gesta Dagaberti I. regis Francorum " in Mon. Germ.

Kist. Script. rer. Meroving. vol. ii. edited by B. Krusch ; J. H. Albers, See also:

Konig Dagobert in Gesch., Legende, and See also:Sage (2nd -ed., See also:Kaiserslautern, 1884) ; E. Vacandard, See also:Vie de See also:Saint Ouen, eveque de Rouen (Paris, 1901) ; and H. E. Bonnell, See also:Die Anfange See also:des karoling. Hauses (See also:Berlin, 1866). (C.

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