SIGEBERT II

died 653, 664 also called Sigebert The Good, or Sigebert Sanctus king of the East Saxons, or Essex (from c. 653), who succeeded his kinsman Sigebert I. He became a Christian, was baptized (c. 653), and invited such missionaries as Saint Cedd into his land, which became a centre for their work. The date and occasion of Sigebert's death are unknown. born 601 died , late 613 ephemeral successor to his father, Theodoric II, as king of Austrasia and Burgundy. He reigned only a matter of weeks before the hostility of the Austrasian nobility, led by Arnulf of Metz and Pippin I, to his great-grandmother Brunhild led to his overthrow and the reunification of the Frankish lands under Chlotar II. Both Sigebert and Brunhild were killed by Chlotar.