Dagobert II.

Dagobert II (* 652 , † December 23, 679 in Mouzay near Stenay ) came from the Merovingian family , the ruling dynasty of the Franks . He was King of Austrasia from 676 until his death .

Life

As Sigibert III. , King of Austrasia , died in 656, his four year old son Dagobert was the pippinidischen house Meier Grimoald displaced. Whether Dagobert briefly held the throne of Australia at this time is controversial among historians and is considered rather doubtful. As a result of this coup, Grimoald set his own son Childebert , who before the birth of Scrooge from Sigibert III. had been adopted to the throne. In order not to endanger the rule of this Childebert, Dagobert was given to Dido of Poitiers and brought to a monastery in Ireland , where he was raised as a monk. Dagobert later came to England , where he was educated at a royal court. Since then he has been close friends with Wilfrid von York . His first marriage was the Anglo-Saxon princess Mechtilde.

Despite Scrooge's absence, Grimoald's coup failed. After Childebert's death, the kingdom of Austrasia fell to Childeric II. He ruled from 662 until his death in 675. Various Austrasian leaders under the house keeper Wulfoald called Dagobert back from Ireland to the royal throne in Austrasia in 676. The return of Dagobert took place against the bitter resistance of the Neustrian house master Ebroin , who wanted to extend his rule to the entire Franconian Empire.

Dagobert left the government to his caretaker Wulfoald and concentrated on pious exercises and charitable works. He built churches and founded various monasteries, such as the monasteries Surburg and Weißenburg in Alsace .

Immediately after the new outbreak of fighting between Austrasia and Neustria , he was probably murdered on December 23, 679 by the hostile man Ebroin while hunting in the Woëvre forest between Stenay on the Meuse and Verdun . The murdered king was buried in the local monastery of Stenay and later venerated as a martyr .

Dagobert II died without leaving any descendants. The modern legend of an alleged son named Sigibert IV (676-758), called "Le Plant-Ard", later Count von Razés and ancestor of Gottfried von Bouillon , is without any historical evidence and is based exclusively on documents forged by Pierre Plantard in the Framework of the affair of the " Prieuré de Sion invention", which was picked up and made popular in the pseudo-historical book The Holy Grail and its heirs .

Adoration and other reception

Since 1068 at the latest, Saint Dagobert was the patron saint of the church, primarily in Lorraine and Alsace. Saint Dagobert church was destroyed during the French Revolution in 1789 and the relics were lost to the skull.

literature

Felix Dahn : Dagobert II, Merovingian Frankish king . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 610 f.
Ekkart Sauser : Dagobert II .. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 252-253. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Josef Semmler : Late Merovingian rulers. Theuderic III. and Dagobert II. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages, Vol. 55 (1999), pp. 1–28. ( Digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Dagobert II. - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Dagobert II in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Martina Hartmann: The Merovingians. CH Beck, 2012, ISBN 978-3-40-663308-9 , p. 52
↑ Patrick J. Geary: The Merovingians. Europe before Charlemagne. CH Beck, 2003, ISBN 978-3-40-649426-0 , p. 52
↑ Patrick J. Geary: The Merovingians. Europe before Charlemagne. P. 192
↑ Sebastian Scholz: The Merovingians. Kohlhammer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-17-025034-5 , pp. 253-254
↑ The author of the Vita Wilfridi , Eddius Stephanus, only wrote that Dagobert was murdered "by the tricks of the leading men ( per dolum ducum ) and with the consent of the bishops". In Revue des questions historiques , Volume LXXI (January 1, 1902), pp. 63-67, E. Vagandard asserted that Pippin the Middle was the instigator of the murder instead of Ebroin, since Eddius Stephanus, a bitter enemy of the Ebroin, had nothing to do with Ebroins participation.

predecessor	Office	successor
Clovis of Austrasia	King of the Franks / partial kingdom of Austrasia possibly 656/657 occupied 676–678	Theuderic III.

personal data
SURNAME	Dagobert II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Merovingian King of Austrasia (676–678)
DATE OF BIRTH	652
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 679
Place of death	Mouzay (Meuse)

[Hartmann-1] Martina Hartmann: The Merovingians. CH Beck, 2012, ISBN 978-3-40-663308-9 , p. 52

[2] Patrick J. Geary: The Merovingians. Europe before Charlemagne. CH Beck, 2003, ISBN 978-3-40-649426-0 , p. 52

[3] Patrick J. Geary: The Merovingians. Europe before Charlemagne. P. 192

[4] Sebastian Scholz: The Merovingians. Kohlhammer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-17-025034-5 , pp. 253-254

[5] The author of the Vita Wilfridi , Eddius Stephanus, only wrote that Dagobert was murdered "by the tricks of the leading men ( per dolum ducum ) and with the consent of the bishops". In Revue des questions historiques , Volume LXXI (January 1, 1902), pp. 63-67, E. Vagandard asserted that Pippin the Middle was the instigator of the murder instead of Ebroin, since Eddius Stephanus, a bitter enemy of the Ebroin, had nothing to do with Ebroins participation.