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Clovis II (637 – 27 November 655
655

Events...
 or 658) succeeded his father Dagobert I
Dagobert I

File:Dagobert_I_Triens_UZES_629_639_gold_1240mg.jpgDagobert I was the king of Austrasia , King of the Franks , and king of Neustria and Burgundy ....
 in 639 as King of Neustria
Neustria

The territory of Neustria or Neustrasia, meaning "new [western] land", originated in 511, made up of the regions from Aquitaine to the English Channel, approximating most of the north of present-day France, with Paris and Soissons as its main cities....
 and Burgundy
King of Burgundy

The following is a list of the Kings of Kingdom of Burgundy....
. His brother Sigebert III
Sigebert III

Sigebert III was the king of Austrasia from 634 to his death probably on 1 February 656, or maybe as late as 660. He was the eldest son of Dagobert I....
 had been King of Austrasia
Austrasia

Austrasia formed the north-eastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of the territory of present-day eastern France, western Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands....
 since 634. He was initially under the regency of his mother Nanthild
Nanthild

Nanthild was the third of many wives of Dagobert I, king of the Franks .She was of Saxon people lineage, born about 608 or 610. The Lexikon des Mittelalters calls her ein M?dchen aus dem Dienstpersonal ....
 until her untimely 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. Clovis' wife, Balthild
Balthild

Saint Balthild of Ascania , also called Bathilda, Baudour, or Bauthieult, was the wife and queen of Clovis II, king of Burgundy and Neustria ....
, was an Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of England of 1066....
 aristocrat sold into slavery in Gaul.






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Clovis II (637 – 27 November 655
655

Events...
 or 658) succeeded his father Dagobert I
Dagobert I

File:Dagobert_I_Triens_UZES_629_639_gold_1240mg.jpgDagobert I was the king of Austrasia , King of the Franks , and king of Neustria and Burgundy ....
 in 639 as King of Neustria
Neustria

The territory of Neustria or Neustrasia, meaning "new [western] land", originated in 511, made up of the regions from Aquitaine to the English Channel, approximating most of the north of present-day France, with Paris and Soissons as its main cities....
 and Burgundy
King of Burgundy

The following is a list of the Kings of Kingdom of Burgundy....
. His brother Sigebert III
Sigebert III

Sigebert III was the king of Austrasia from 634 to his death probably on 1 February 656, or maybe as late as 660. He was the eldest son of Dagobert I....
 had been King of Austrasia
Austrasia

Austrasia formed the north-eastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of the territory of present-day eastern France, western Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands....
 since 634. He was initially under the regency of his mother Nanthild
Nanthild

Nanthild was the third of many wives of Dagobert I, king of the Franks .She was of Saxon people lineage, born about 608 or 610. The Lexikon des Mittelalters calls her ein M?dchen aus dem Dienstpersonal ....
 until her untimely 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. Clovis' wife, Balthild
Balthild

Saint Balthild of Ascania , also called Bathilda, Baudour, or Bauthieult, was the wife and queen of Clovis II, king of Burgundy and Neustria ....
, was an Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of England of 1066....
 aristocrat sold into slavery in Gaul. She had been owned by Clovis' mayor of the palace, Ebroin
Ebroin

Ebroin was the Franks mayor of the palace of Neustria on two occasions; firstly from 658 to his deposition in 673 and secondly from 675 to his death in 680 or 681....
, who gave her to him to garner royal favour. She bore him three sons who all became kings after his death. The eldest, Chlothar, succeeded him and his second eldest, Childeric
Childeric II

Childeric II was the king of Austrasia from 662 and of Neustria and Kingdom of Burgundy from 673 until his death, making him sole King of the Franks for the final two years of his life....
, was eventually placed on the Austrasian throne by Ebroin. The youngest, Theuderic
Theuderic III

Theuderic III was the king of Neustria on two occasions and king of Austrasia from 679 to his death in 691. Thus, he was the king of all the Franks from 679....
, succeeded Childeric in Neustria and eventually became the sole king of the Franks.

Clovis was a minor for almost the whole of his reign. He is sometimes regarded as king of Austrasia during the interval 656–57 when Childebert the Adopted
Childebert the Adopted

When King Sigebert III died in 656, Grimoald the Elder had Sigebert's son Dagobert II shorn of hair and packed off to an Ireland monastery and then proclaimed his own son, Childebert the Adopted , king of Austrasia....
 had usurped the throne. He is often regarded as an early roi fainéant
Roi fainéant

Roi fain?ant is a French language phrase meaning "do-nothing king". It is primarily used to refer to the later kings of the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties, after they seemed to have lost their initial energy....
.

Clovis II was buried in Saint Denis Basilica
Saint Denis Basilica

The Basilica of Saint Denis is the List of cemeteries of almost all the List of French monarchs since Clovis I . Saved and restored by the architect Viollet le Duc, the basilica is located in Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris....
, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
.