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In 622 he became king of Austrasia and in 629 of all the Frankish lands. He secured peace by making a friendship treaty with the Byzantine Emperor, Heraclius, by defeating the Gascons and the Bretons, then campaigning against the Slavs on his eastern frontier.
In 631 he sent an army to Spain to help the Visigothic usurper, Swinthila. He moved his capital from Austrasia to Paris, a central location from which the kingdom could be governed more effectively.
He then appeased the Austrasians by making his three-year-old son, Sigebert, their king in 634. Dagobert loved justice but was also greedy and dissolute. During his reign there was a revival of the arts, a revision of the Frankish law, and encouragement for learning. Dagobert founded the first great abbey of Saint Denis to which he made many gifts.
His chief advisers were two Austrasian aristocrats, Arnulf, bishop of Metz, and Pippin, who was made mayor of Dagobert's palace. It was a marriage arranged between Arnulf's son and Pippin's daughter that was to form the powerful dynasty known later as the Carolingians. (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
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Abt 608 - 639 (~ 31 years)
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