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Key facts
- Reign
- 715–721
- Predecessor
- Dagobert III
- Successor
- Theuderic IV
- Died
- 13 February 721 (aged 48 – 49), Attigny, Ardennes
- Issue
- Childeric III ?
- Dynasty
- Merovingian
- Father
- Childeric II
- Mother
- Bilichild
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Noyon
- Child
- Childeric III
- Father
- Childeric II
- Mother
- Bilichild
- Occupation
- monarch
- Position held
- king of Franks
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Family
- Merovingian dynasty
- Noble title
- king of Franks
- Image
- Jean Dassier (1676-1763) - Chilpéric II roy de France (670-721).jpg
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- Commons category
- Chilperic II
- date of death
- 0721-02-13
- date of birth
- 0673-00-00
- relative
- Childeric III
- place of burial
- Noyon
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- name in native language
- Chilperikus
- Commons Creator page
- Chilperic II
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Encyclopedic overview
Confirmation of privileges of the Abbey of Saint-Denis issued by Chilperic II Chilperic II (c. 672 – 13 February 721) was King of the Franks from 715 until his death.
He was a son of Childeric II and his half-cousin wife, Bilichild, both of whom were assassinated, along with their eldest son Dagobert, in 675. Still an infant, Chilperic was spirited to a monastery to protect his life from the internecine feuding of his family. There, he was raised as Daniel until the death of Dagobert III in 715, when he was taken from the monastery – at the age of forty-three – and raised on the shield of the Neustrian warriors as king.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chilperic II” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.