Sigebert
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Sigebert was the name of several early Frankish
and Anglo-Saxon kings
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Franks
The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes first attested in the third century AD as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a...
and Anglo-Saxon kings
Anglo-Saxon monarchs
Anglo-Saxon monarchs were the rulers of the various kingdoms which arose in England following the withdrawal of the Romans in the fifth century. The most prominent kingdoms were Kent, Sussex, Wessex, Mercia and Bernicia, each recognising their own monarch...
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- Sigobert the LameSigobert the LameSigobert the Lame was a king of the Franks in the area of Zülpich and Cologne.He was presumably wounded at the knee at the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alamanni....
(d. c. 509) - Sigebert of GemblouxSigebert of GemblouxSigebert of Gembloux was a medieval author, known mainly as a pro-Imperial historian of a universal chronicle, opposed to the expansive papacy of Gregory VII and Pascal II...
(d. 1112) - Sigebert ISigebert ISigebert I was the king of Austrasia from the death of his father in 561 to his own death. He was the third surviving son out of four of Clotaire I and Ingund...
, king of Austrasia (r. 561–575) - Sigebert IISigebert IISigebert II was king of Burgundy and Austrasia . Bastard son of Theuderic II, he succeeded his father in 613; but the mayor of the palace of Austrasia, Warnachar, feared that at his young age he would fall under the influence of his great-grandmother Brunhilda.Brunhilda had brought him before a...
, king of Austrasia and Burgundy (r. 613) - Sigebert IIISigebert IIISigebert 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....
, king of Austrasia (r. 634–656) - Sigebert IV, Prince of Austrasia, grandson of Sigebert III (671–758)
- Sigeberht I the Little, king of Essex (r. 617–653)
- Sigeberht II the Good, king of Essex (r. 653–660)
- Sigeberht of East AngliaSigeberht of East AngliaSigeberht of East Anglia , was a saint and a king of East Anglia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was the first English king to receive a Christian baptism and education before his succession and the first to abdicate in order to enter...
saint and king of the East Angles (r. 629–634) - Sigeberht of WessexSigeberht of WessexSigeberht was the King of Wessex from 756 to 757.Sigeberht succeeded his distant relative Cuthred, but was then accused of acting unjustly. He was removed from power by a council of nobles, but given control of Hampshire. There, he was accused of murder, driven out and ultimately killed...
(r. 756–757)