Childeric II
Frankish king
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A Frankish king murdered in the forest with his wife and five-year-old son after flogging the wrong nobleman. Childeric II seized three kingdoms by age twenty and lost everything two years later when a conspiracy of magnates he'd alienated caught him hunting.
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Childeric was the second son of King Clovis II and Saint Balthild, still a child when warriors hoisted him on shields and proclaimed him King of Austrasia in 662. His elder brother Chlothar III had given him the eastern kingdom while keeping Neustria and Burgundy, but when Chlothar died in 673, Burgundian nobles rebelled against their new king Theuderic III and invited Childeric to invade — which he did, displacing his youngest brother and becoming sole king of all three realms. He married his cousin Bilichild and had two sons, Dagobert and Chilperic, but quickly alienated his new subjects by…
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