Sigebert III

Sigebert III. (. Sigebert III in France or Saint Sigisbert so Sigibert the Holy One, * 630, † February 1 656) was a Frankish king in the kingdom of Austrasia part.

He was the son of Dagobert I of the Merovingian dynasty and his concubine Ragnetrudis. He married after 646 Chimnechild, with whom he had two children: Dagobert II (* 652, † 679 ), and Bilichild († 675), the 662 Childeric II married her cousin and 675 whose fate shared.

Sigebert III. Beginning from the age of three, at the request of the greats of the eastern empire part sub- king in Austrasia, initially under the tutelage of Pippin, but the power in the Frankish Empire was never fully attain, but had to use as king his brother Clovis II in Neustria and Burgundy. Above all, Duke of Thuringia, Radulf proved Sigibert stubborn opponent. After a defeat at the 641 Unstrut Thuringia became de facto independent. Finally, Sigebert was forced to adopt the son of his major-domo Grimoald I, Childebert, and so to give the inheritance from his hand.

Significantly Sigebert was, however, as the founder of two monasteries Malmedy and Stavelot, whose founding he commissioned Remaclus, the former abbot of the monastery of Solignac. Sigebert Sigebert of Gembloux died in 656 wrote his Vita. The tomb of St. Martin in Metz has known since the 11th century is Sigibert - worship, which expanded in the 13th century, the monasteries of Stavelot and Malmedy.

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Sigibert applies along with his half-brother, Clovis II as the first generation of slacker kings.