Mayor Of The Palace Of Austrasia Grimoald, son of I Pepin, Mayor Of The Palace Of Austrasia and UNKNOWN Itta. Died 656 [blended.FTW] [mergebase.FTW] Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia 640-656 Grimoald succeeded his father Pepin I as Mayor of the Palace, and he allowed the boy king Sigebert III to rule on his own. In 640, this proved to be a bad idea when Sigebert failed to stop a Thuringian revolt. In 656, when Sigebert died, Dagobert II his son became king, although Grimoald had him sent off to be a monk in Ireland and installed his own son Childebert, who conviently had a Merovingian name. The installation was not at all accepted, and that year Grimoald and his son were executed on the order of the Neustrian/Burgundian King Clovis II. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Married/ Related to: N.N. CHAN17 May 2004 Child: 1. King Of Austrasia ChildebertStill Living. |