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Key facts
- Reign
- 595–613
- Predecessor
- Childebert II
- Successor
- Sigebert II
- Born
- c. 587
- Died
- c. 613 (aged 26)
- Spouse
- Ermenberga (m. 606; annulled 607)
- Issue
- Sigebert II , Childebert, Corbus, Merovech
- House
- Merovingian dynasty
- Father
- Childebert II
- Mother
- Faileuba
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thierry
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Metz
- Spouse
- Ermenberga
- Father
- Childebert II
- Mother
- Faileuba
- Occupation
- monarch
- Position held
- king
- Family
- Merovingian dynasty
- Noble title
- king of Franks
- Image
- Portrait Roi de france Thierri II (i.e. IV).jpg
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- Commons category
- Theuderic II
- date of birth
- 0587-01-01
- date of death
- 0613-01-01
- cause of death
- dysentery
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Thierry II
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Encyclopedic overview
The Frankish realm as it was after the Treaty of Andelot in 587. The Burgundian kingdom of Guntram (pink) was inherited first by Childebert II and then by Theuderic II. Theuderic II (also spelled Theuderich, Theoderic or Theodoric; in French, Thierry) (c. 587–613), king of Burgundy (595–613) and Austrasia (612–613), was the second son of Childebert II. At his father's death in 595, he received Guntram's kingdom of Burgundy, with its capital at Orléans, while his elder brother, Theudebert II, received their father's kingdom of Austrasia, with its capital at Metz. He also received the lordship of the cities (civitates) of Toulouse, Agen, Nantes, Angers, Saintes, Angoulême, Périgueux, Blois, Chartres, and Le Mans. During his minority, and later, he reigned under the guidance of his grandmother Brunhilda, evicted from Austrasia by his brother Theudebert II.
In 596, Clotaire II, king of Neustria, and Fredegund, Clotaire's mother, took Paris, which was supposed to be held in common. Fredegund, then her son's regent, sent a force to Laffaux and the armies of Theudebert and Theuderic were defeated.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Theuderic II” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.