1. Dagobert I ruled Austrasia and Neustria and Burgundy.
13 Facts About Dagobert I
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Dagobert I was the eldest son of Chlothar II and Haldetrude and the grandson of Fredegund.
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Dagobert I created a new duchy in southwest Austrasia to guard the region from Burgundian or Alemannic encroachments and ambitions.
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Besides signing this treaty, Dagobert I 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.
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When Charibert and his son Chilperic were assassinated in 632, Dagobert I 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.
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In 631, Dagobert I 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 due to Dagobert I's quarrel with him about the Wends having robbed and killed a number of Frankish merchants.
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In 634, Dagobert I 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.
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Devoutly religious, Dagobert I was responsible for the construction of the Saint Denis Basilica at the site of a Benedictine monastery in Paris.
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Meanwhile, Dagobert I was buried in the abbey of Saint Denis Basilica, Paris, the first Frankish king to be buried there.
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The pattern of division and assassination, which characterized king Dagobert I's reign, continued for the next century until Pepin the Short finally deposed the last Merovingian king in 751, establishing the Carolingian dynasty.
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Dagobert I was immortalized in the song Le bon roi Dagobert I, a nursery rhyme featuring exchanges between the king and his chief adviser, Saint Eligius.
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The rex Brittanorum Judicael came to Clichy to visit Dagobert I, but opted not to dine with him due to his misgivings about Dagobert's moral choices, instead dining with the king's referendary St Audoen.
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Dagobert I married into the Bavarian Agilolfing family, either Theodo of Bavaria or his son Theodbert of Bavaria.