Editing Charibert II (section)

{{Short description|7th-century King of Aquitaine}}
[[File:Caribert II Tremissis Banassac 629 632.jpg|thumb|''[[Tremissis]]'' of Charibert II, minted at [[Banassac]], bearing his effigy and name]]
[[File:Frankish kingdoms in 628.jpg|thumb|The Frankish kingdoms, showing Charibert's kingdom in green]]
'''Charibert II''' (607/617{{snd}}8 April 632), a son of [[Clotaire II]] and his junior wife [[Sichilde]], was briefly [[King of Aquitaine]] from 629 to his death, with his capital at [[Toulouse]]. There are no direct statements about when Charibert was born exactly, the only known fact being that he was "a few years younger" than his half-brother Dagobert.<ref name=":0">[[Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi]], [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_O-ZAAAAAYAAJ The French under the Merovingians] (1850), pp. 152–54.</ref>  His father Clotaire evidently had a bigamous marriage (not then uncommon) and he was the offspring of the junior wife.

When his father, Clotaire II, [[King of the Franks]], died in 629, Charibert made a bid for the kingdom of [[Neustria]] against his elder half-brother [[Dagobert I]], who had already been king of [[Austrasia]] since 623. In the ensuing negotiations, Charibert, a minor, was represented by his uncle Brodulf, the brother of Queen Sichilde. Dagobert had Brodulf killed, but did not intercede when his half-brother took over the near-independent realm of [[Aquitaine]]. Apparently this caused no disagreement, as in 631 Charibert stood godfather to Dagobert's son [[Sigebert III|Sigebert]].

Charibert's realm included Toulouse, [[Cahors]], [[Agen]], [[Périgueux]], and [[Saintes, Charente-Maritime|Saintes]], to which he added his possessions in [[Gascony]]. Charibert was married to Gisela, the daughter of Amand, Ruler of the [[Gascons]]. His fighting force subdued the resistance of the [[Basque people|Basques]], until the whole [[Novempopulania]] (became [[Duchy of Vasconia]]) was under his control.

In 632, Charibert died at [[Blaye]], [[Gironde]], and soon after that his infant son [[Chilperic of Aquitaine|Chilperic]] was killed. Aquitaine passed again to Dagobert.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Venning |first=Timothy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WqU5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA633 |title=A Chronology of Early Medieval Western Europe: 450–1066 |date=2017-10-12 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-58916-1 |pages=633 |language=en}}</ref> Both Charibert and his son are buried in the early [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] [[Basilica of Saint-Romain]] at Blaye.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Petit |first=Dominique |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3rlEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT107 |title=Dagobert |date=2023-11-28 |publisher=Editions Ellipses |isbn=978-2-340-08605-0 |pages=107 |language=fr}}</ref>