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King Siegbert III Of AUSTRASIA
629 - 656 (27 years)-
Name Siegbert III Of AUSTRASIA Prefix King Birth 629 Austrasia 
Christening Orleans Gender Male _FSFTID GJT7-5BJ _FSLINK https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GJT7-5BJ _HASHTAG KING - Designated Royal King
_UID 28E15D0D7079473BB44BBCFBA24AD2D12391 Death 656 Person ID I28686 Carney Wehofer July 2025 Last Modified 2 Jan 2023
Father King Dagobert I of AUSTRASIA, b. 604, Soissons, ons, Aisne, Picardie, France d. 19 Jan 639, Epinay-Sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-DE-France, France (Age 35 years) Mother Regintrude (concubine), b. 612 d. Yes, date unknown Marriage 630 Concubine - 3Rd "Marriage" Family ID F12513 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Immachilde (Chimnechild) of AUSTRASIA, b. Abt 630, Burgundy, France d. Abt 670 (Age ~ 40 years) Marriage Abt 651 2ND Marriage Children 1. Bilichild of AUSTRASIA, b. of Burgundy 2. King Dagobert II Of AUSTRASIA, b. 652 d. 23 Dec 679 (Age 27 years) 3. Duchess Bereswinde Of ALSACE, b. Abt 652, Metz, Austrasia, France d. 744, Metz, Austrasia, France (Age ~ 92 years)Family ID F12512 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
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Notes - Sigebert was born in 629-630 as the eldest son of Dagobert I, King of the Franks, and his concubine Ragnetrude. The king recalled and made peace with Saint Amand, who was previously banished for criticizing the king's vices, and asked him to baptize his new-born son. The ceremony was performed at Orléans and Charibert II, Dagobert's half-brother who was King of Aquitaine at the time, was the god-father. Dagobert assigned the education of Sigebert to Pepin of Landen, who was the mayor of the palace in Austrasia under his father Chlotar II, until 629. Pepin took the young Sigebert and moved with him to his domains in Aquitane, where they stayed the next three years.
In 633, a revolt of the nobles forced Dagobert to make the three-year old Sigebert king of Austrasia, similar to how his father Chlotar II had made him king of Austrasia in 623. However, he refused to give the power to Pepin of Landen by making him mayor of the palace for the child-king. Instead he had put Sigebert under the tutelage of Adalgisel as mayor of the palace and the Bishop of Cologne Saint Cunibert as regent, while keeping Pepin in Neustria as hostage. In 634 Dagobert's second son, Clovis II, was born, and the king forced the nobles to accept him as the next king of Neustria and Burgundy, setting up a new division of the empire.
On the death of Dagobert in 639, the two Frankish kingdoms became independent once again under Sigebert III and Clovis II. Both kingdoms were under child-kings – Sigebert was around eleven years old and Clovis was five – and were ruled by the respective regents. It was under Seigbert's reign that the mayor of the palace began to play the most important role in the political life of Austrasia, and he has been described as the first roi fainéant— do-nothing king— of the Merovingian dynasty.[4] Pepin replaced Adalgisel as mayor of the palace of Austrasia in 639 but died the following year, in 640, and was replaced by his son Grimoald.
- Sigebert was born in 629-630 as the eldest son of Dagobert I, King of the Franks, and his concubine Ragnetrude. The king recalled and made peace with Saint Amand, who was previously banished for criticizing the king's vices, and asked him to baptize his new-born son. The ceremony was performed at Orléans and Charibert II, Dagobert's half-brother who was King of Aquitaine at the time, was the god-father. Dagobert assigned the education of Sigebert to Pepin of Landen, who was the mayor of the palace in Austrasia under his father Chlotar II, until 629. Pepin took the young Sigebert and moved with him to his domains in Aquitane, where they stayed the next three years.