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Mayor of the palace of Neustria
Grimoald II
(
French
:
Grimaud
) (died 714), called
the Younger
, was the
mayor of the palace
of
Neustria
from 695.
Life
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Grimoald was the second son of
Pepin of Herstal
and
Plectrude
and his father placed him in the office of mayor of the palace in the Neustrian kingdom sometime after 700,
[1]
when he was still young.
When his elder brother,
Drogo of Champagne
, died in 708, Grimoald also received charge of northern Burgundy.
[2]
He married
Theudesinda
(or Theodelinda), daughter of
Radbod, King of the Frisians
,
[3]
and had two sons:
Theudoald
and Arnold. While returning from a visit to the tomb of
Saint Lambert
at
Liege
, Grimoald was murdered on the road to Jupille
[4]
by a certain Rangar, in the employ of his father-in-law. His sons carried on a fight to be recognised as Pepin of Herstal's true heirs, since Grimoald predeceased his father, and his half-brother
Charles
succeeded to the lands and offices of their father.
References
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- ^
Riche, Pierre.
The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe
, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, p. 28
ISBN
9780812213423
- ^
Riche 1993, p. 28.
- ^
Andrews, Pflugk-Harttung, Julius von.
A History of All Nations
, Lea brothers, 1902, p. 110
- ^
Riche 1993, p. 30.
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