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Chlothar II
Chlothar II (or "Chlotar", "Clothar", "Clotaire", "Chlotochar", or "Hlothar"; 584 – 18 October 629), called the Great or the Young, was King of Neustria and King of the Franks, and the son of Chilperic I and his third wife, Fredegund. He started his reign as an infant under the regency of his mother, who was in an uneasy alliance with Clothar's uncle Guntram, King of Burgundy (d. 592). Clothar
seven years old at the time) tonsured and sent to a monastery in Ireland. Grimoald's son Childebert the Adopted was proclaimed King of Austrasia in 656, but the reign was short-lived as he was deposed after seven months in 657 and both he and his father were killed in a revolt.
Austrasia next passed under the rule of the children of Sigebert's brother Clovis II for a period. Chlothar III, the elder son of Clovis II, became the king of Austrasia in 657. The next year,