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Key facts
- Reign
- 743–751
- Predecessor
- Theuderic IV
- Successor
- Pepin the Short
- Born
- c. 718/728
- Died
- c. 754
- Issue
- Theuderic
- Dynasty
- Merovingian
- Father
- Chilperic II or Theuderic IV
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Father
- Chilperic II
- Occupation
- monarch
- Position held
- king of Franks
- Family
- Merovingian dynasty
- Noble title
- king of Franks
- Image
- Jean Dassier (1676-1763) - Childéric III roy de France (754).jpg
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- Commons category
- Childeric III
- date of birth
- 0717-01-01
- relative
- Theuderic IV
- date of death
- 0754-01-01
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- name in native language
- Childéric
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Childeric III (c. 718/728 – c. 755) was King of the Franks from 743 until he was deposed in 751 by Pepin the Short. He was the last Frankish king from the Merovingian dynasty. Once Childeric was deposed, Pepin became king, initiating the Carolingian dynasty.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Childeric III” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.