Charibert II
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Charibert II (after 618 – April 8, 632), a son of Clotaire II and his second wife Sichilde, of the Merovingian dynasty, was briefly king in Aquitaine, 629-631/2, with his capital at Toulouse.
At the death of his father Clotaire II, King of the Franks, died in 629, Charibert made a bid for the kingdom of Neustria against his elder half-brother Dagobert I, who was already king of Austrasia. In the ensuing negotiations, Charibert, a minor, was represented by his uncle Brodulf, the brother of Queen Sichilde. Dagobert had Brodulf killed and ceded the realm of Aquitaine to Charibert. This agreement was confirmed in 631, when Charibert stood godfather to Dagobert's son Sigebert.
Charibert's realm included Toulouse, Cahors, Agen, Perigueux and Saintes, to which he added to his possessions in Gascony. Charibert was married to Gisela, the heiress of Amand of Gascony. His fighting force subdued the resistance of the Basques, until the whole of the Basque territories was under his control.
In 632 Charibert died at Blaye, Gironde, possibly assassinated on Dagobert's orders, and soon after that Charibert's infant son Chilperic was also killed. The Aquitaine passed again to Dagobert. Both of them are buried in the early Romanesque Basilica of Saint-Romain at Blaye.
Charibert's surviving son, Boggis, Duke of Aquitaine, (ca 626 — ca 688), was the father of Saint Hubertus, who resigned his worldly claims to his younger brother, who began a line of Merovingian dukes of Aquitaine that lasted until 778, when the last, Loup II, was killed by Charlemagne.
See also the List of Frankish Kings
External links
- Historical Atlas: Kings and Dukes of Aquitaine
- Oxford Merovingian Page
- Festival Le Raisin d'Or: Blaye
Further reading
- E. James The Franks, 1987
- I. Wood The Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751 1994
- Gregory of Tours' history (translated bt L. Thorpe, 1974
- (Fredegar) Wallace-Hadrill, J.M., translator, 1960. The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations (Connecticut:Greenwood Press)
