page_title: Childebert the Adopted
hierarchical_section_title: Childebert the Adopted
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Tremissis de 7 siliques émis par Childebert l'Adopté (656-662). Avers&#160;: MAS /ILI/A buste diadémé et drapé à droite. Revers&#160;: (CHIL)DEBERTVS RX croix latine pattée, au pied potencé, accostée des lettres M et A, posée sur un globe entre deux séries de points&#160;: quatre d’un côté pour X et deux de l’autre, (résidu des chiffres de valeur).
context_page_description: Childebert III the Adopted was a Frankish king.
  Childebert was a son of the Mayor of the Palace Grimoald the Elder. He was thus a grandson of Pepin of Landen.
  He was adopted by King Sigebert III and Queen Chimnechild.
  When Sigebert III died in 656, Grimoald had Sigebert’s biological son Dagobert II shorn of hair and sent him to an Irish monastery and then proclaimed Childebert king of Austrasia.
  Grimoald, Childebert and Ansegisel were finally seized and turned over to the king of Neustria, Clovis II, who had them killed. There are two differing accounts of his death, however. Either Clovis and his mayor of the palace, Erchinoald, captured and executed him in 657 or Chlothar III annexed Austrasia in 661, deposing the young usurper and executing them both the next year.
  The family reappeared in politics with the rise of Ansegisel’s son, Pepin of Herstal.
context_section_description: Childebert III the Adopted (Childebertus Adoptivus) was a Frankish king.
  Childebert was a son of the Mayor of the Palace Grimoald the Elder. He was thus a grandson of Pepin of Landen.
  He was adopted by King Sigebert III and Queen Chimnechild.
  When Sigebert III died in 656, Grimoald had Sigebert’s biological son Dagobert II shorn of hair and sent him to an Irish monastery and then proclaimed Childebert king of Austrasia.
  Grimoald, Childebert and Ansegisel (who had married the daughter of Pepin of Landen) were finally seized and turned over to the king of Neustria, Clovis II, who had them killed. There are two differing accounts of his death, however. Either Clovis and his mayor of the palace, Erchinoald, captured and executed him in 657 or Chlothar III annexed Austrasia in 661, deposing the young usurper and executing them both the next year.
  The family reappeared in politics with the rise of Ansegisel’s son, Pepin of Herstal.
caption: Coin of Childebert
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