When King Sigebert III died in 656, Grimoald had Sigebert's son Dagobert II shorn of hair and packed off to an Irish monastery and then proclaimed his own son, Childebert the Adopted, king of Austrasia. Sigebert III (630?-660) was a Frankish King of Austrasia who began his rule in around 635 and ended it with his death in approximately February 660. ... Events Ali succeeds Uthman as Caliph Battle of Basrah (also known as Battle of the Camel) Oswiu of Northumbria annexes Mercia Births Deaths Uthman ibn Affan, Caliph (murdered) Peada, king of Mercia (murdered) Categories: 656 ... Dagobert II (650 - December 23, 679) was a Frankish King. ... Buddhist monastery near Tibet A monastery is the habitation of monks. ... Austrasia & Neustria Austrasia was the northeastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of what are now eastern France, western Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. ...

Grimoald, his son, and his brother-in-law Ansegisel were finally seized and turned over to the king of Neustria, Clovis II, who had them killed. Ansegisel, or Duke Angiese, was the son of Arnulf of Metz and his wife Doda. ... Neustria & Austrasia The territory of Neustria originated in A.D. 511, made up of the regions from Aquitaine to the northern seacoast approximating most of the north of present-day France. ... Clovis II (or Chlodowech, modern French Louis) (637 - November 27, 655), a member of the Merovingian dynasty, succeeded his father Dagobert I in 639 as King of Neustria and Burgundy. ...

The family reappeared in politics with the rise of Ansegisel's son, Pepin II of Herstal. Pippin of Herstal ( Pépin), also known as Pippin the Younger, (b. ... Herstal is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. ...