Clovis II [SEP] father
Clovis II
Clovis II (633 – 657) succeeded his father Dagobert I in 639 as King of Neustria and Burgundy. His brother Sigebert III had been King of Austrasia since 634. He was initially under the regency of his mother Nanthild until her death in her early thirties in 642. This death allowed him to fall under the influence of the secular magnates, who reduced the royal power in their own favour; first Aega, and then Erchinoald.
Clovis' wife, Balthild, whose Anglo-Saxon origins are
he died. Nor is the naming of Clovis unusual, since firstborn sons in the Merovingian dynasty were often named after their grandfathers, and Chlothar's father was Clovis II. When Theuderic III had a son in 677, however, he named him Clovis (the future Clovis IV) and this may be taken as evidence that the "Suffering" is correct and his brother never had a son of that name.
Ebroin needed a legitimate Merovingian in order to raise an army and to issue legally binding orders ("praecepta