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Childebert II The Merovigian, King of Austrasia and Burgundy1,2
b. between 570 and 571, d. 596, #29745
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Father   Sigebert I King of Austrasia1 b. circa 535, d. 575
Mother   Brunhild1 b. before 537, d. October 613

Birth* between 570 and 571 Childebert II was born between 570 and 571 at Burgundy, France.1,3 
!AInfoNew* 575 Succeeded his father tho' he was only 5 years old. Austraisia was really "run" by his mother.1,4 
Marriage* circa 585 Childebert II The Merovigian, King of Austrasia and Burgundy married Failende / Faileuba, daughter of Athanagild Visigothic King of Spain and Galawithe of the Vandals, circa 585.2  
!AInfoNew He was married (1) to NN and (2) to Faileuba about 586. She was born in 573 and died after 596.3 
!AInfoNew 592 In 592 he became the King of Orleans-Burgundy and was such until his death.4 
Death* 596
Childebert II died in 596. His two sons, tho' yet minors, took over his kingdom. Theudebert II King of Soissons and Meaux, King of Austrasia 596- 612. and Theuderic II King of Burgundy 596-613, Austrasia 612-13.4
 

Family   Failende / Faileuba b. circa 573, d. after 596
Child  1. Theudebert II of Austrisia+ b. 586, d. 6132

Citations
  1. Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, p19.
  2. Download, http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2620137&id=I7617 Pam Miller e-mail address 4Aug 2003.
  3. [S9180] "Email, no hard copy" , Leo van de Pas e-mail address .
  4. Download, http://users.ox.ac.uk/~popx/merovingian.html The Oxford Merovingian Page Sources: E. James The Franks 1987; I. Wood The Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751 1994; Gregory of Tours Ten Books of History (trans L. Thorpe, 1974); The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar (trans. J.M.Wallace-Hadrill, 1960); The Book of the History of the Franks (trans. B.Bachrach, 1973)..
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