Clovis IV, King of the Franks

CHLODOVECH [Clovis] ([678]-695, bur Choisy-au-Bac, near Compiègne, basilique Saint-Etienne). "Chlodoveus rex Francorum" names "avunculi nostri Chlothacharii et Childerici…et genitor nostri Theuderici quondam regis…avos nostros Chlodoveus quondam rex" in his deed dated 1 Jun 691, subscribed by "genitricis nostræ Chrodechildis reginæ"[480]. He is named as son of Theoderich in the Cartulaire of Saint-Bertin[481]. The Liber Historiæ Francorum names "Chlodoveus filius eius [=Theuderici regis]…puer…ex regina…Chrodchilde" when recording his succession to his father and reign of two years[482]. He succeeded his father in 690 as CLOVIS III King of the Franks, under the authority of Pépin d'Herstal [Carolingian], but died after "having reigned four years"[483]. The Chronicon Sancti Medardi Suessionensis records the death in 695 of “Clodoveus puer Rex” and the accession of “Childebertus frater eius”[484].

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Clovis IV (sometimes Clovis III if the other Clovis III is considered a usurper) (682–95), son of Theuderic III, was the sole king of the Franks from 691 until his death. Although Clovis IV is called "King of the Franks", he was really a puppet—a roi fainéant—of Pepin II, mayor of the palace of Austrasia. He assumed the throne at the age of nine and died when he was only thirteen.

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Clovis IV

Merovingian Dynasty

Born: 682 Died: 695

Preceded by

Theuderic III King of the Franks

691–695 Succeeded by

Childebert III

Clovis III

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Clovis III was the king of Austrasia from 675 to 676. Perhaps the son of Theuderic III or Clovis II, the Austrasian magnates who proclaimed him called him an illegitimate son of Clotaire III. They placed him on the throne in opposition to the young Dagobert II, the claimant of Wulfoald, the mayor of the palace. At this time, Ebroin, once mayor of the palace of Neustria, escaped from his monastic imprisonment and joined the partisans of Clovis. He probably hoped to use the claimant to oppose Theuderic III and Pepin of Heristal in Neustria and Burgundy as well. Though Ebroin intended it, he never succeeded in displacing Theuderic and Pepin, though he was eventually recognised as mayor in his old post.

Clovis died soon after his acclamation and he did nothing of his own will, being but a puppet of a faction. There remains the possibility that Clovis III (not always numbered among the kings of the Franks) was not really a Merovingian at all.