f a m i l y Children with: Haldetrude Queen of Soissons Children: Dagobert I of the Franks King of Austrasia Chlothar II King of the Franks Born: Abt 584, Paris, Seine, France Married to Haldetrude Queen of Soissons Died: Abt 628, St Vincent Abbey, Paris, Seine, France Clotaire II, d. 629, Frankish king, son of Chilperic I and Fredegunde. He succeeded (584) his father as king of Neustria, but his mother ruled for him until her death (597). In 613, after the death of his cousin Theodoric II, king of Austrasia, he was called in by Austrasian nobles to assume rule. He thus became king of all the Franks. He put Brunhilda to death, restored peace with the help of the nobility, and was compelled to grant (614) a charter giving far-reaching privileges to nobles and clergy. He was also forced to agree that each of the component parts of the Frankish lands, Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy, was to have its own mayor of the palace; the mayors of the palace were the chief royal administrators. In 623 he sent his son Dagobert I to be king of Austrasia. Dagobert later succeeded to all the Frankish lands. ------------------------------------------------------- Titles: King of the Franks (Roi des Francs) Reign: September/October 584 - 628 or October 18, 629 Regent: September/October 584 - late 590s [minority] Frédegonde (b. c. 545 - d. 596/597), mother of Clotaire II End of reign: 628 or October 18, 629, died Name/byname: Clotaire (in English: Chlotar) the Young or the Great/French: le Jeune, le Grand The son of Chilpéric I and Frédegonde, young Clotaire succeeded to the throne of his father's kingdom when his was assassinated in 584. Queen Frédegonde became regent and tutor of the four-month old king. Though Clotaire's cousin Childebert II tried to conquer the kingdom of Chilpéric's heir and approached Paris with his army, their uncle, king Gontran of Burgundy, supported the young king and his mother, whose extradition was demanded by Childebert. Gontran assured Clotaire's accession and became the guardian of his kingdom. After Gontran's death, in 593 or 594, Clotaire again fought against Childebert II near Soissons. When Childebert died in 595, Clotaire's armies conquered part of the territory of the kingdom of Austrasia, but in 599 or 600 the new lands and other territories were lost to the Austrasia-Burgundy alliance. However, the discontent among the Austrasian nobility with the Queen Brunehaut (Brunhild), who tried to install the son of Thierry II as king of Austrasia in 613/614, allowed Clotaire to annex Austrasia. Clotaire enjoyed peace in his kingdom after 613/614 and established his son, Dagobert I, as king of Austrasia in 623. As the elder son of Clotaire, Mérovée was taken prisoner by the Burgundians and killed in 603/604, Dagobert succeeded to the thrones of Neustria and Austrasia after Clotaire's death in 628/629.

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