The Lives of the Saints Volume 1 - St. Patrick's Basilica

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short. God was pleased to call this good king from the miseries of this
world to the recompense of his labors on the 1st of February, in the
year 656, the eighteenth of his reign, and the twenty-fifth of his
age.[2] He was interred in the abbey of St. Martin's, near Metz, which
he had built. His body was found incorrupt in 1063, and placed in a
monument on the side of the high altar: and in 1170 it was enshrined in
a silver case. The monastery of St. Martin's, and all others in the
suburbs, were demolished by Francis of Lorraine, duke of Guise, in 1552,
when Charles V. laid siege to Metz. The relics of St. Sigebert are now
deposited in the collegiate church of our Lady at Nancy. He is honored
among the saints in great part of the dominions which he governed, and
in the monasteries and churches which he founded. See Fredegarius and
his continuator, Sigebert of Gemblours, in his life of this saint, with
the learned remarks of Henschenius, p. 40. Also Calmet, Hist. de
Lorraine, t. 1, p. 419. Schoëpflin, Alsatia Illustrata, Colmariæ, an.
1751. Sect. 2, p. 742.
Footnotes:
1. Charibert, though he took the title of king, and resided at
Toulouse, held his estates of his brother Dagobert, and by his gift.
After Charibert's death, Chilperic, his eldest son, was put to death
by Dagobert; but his second son, Boggis, left a numerous posterity,
which was only extinguished in Louis d'Armagnac, duke of Nemours,
slain at the battle of Cerignole, where he commanded for Louis XII.
against Gonzales de Cordova, surnamed The Great Captain, for the
Catholic king Ferdinand in 1503, by which the French lost the
kingdom of Naples. So long did the family of Clovis II. subsist. See
Vaisette, Hist de Languedoc, Henault, Abr. de l'Hist. de France, t.
1, pp. 26, and 818.
2. St. Sigebert left his son Dagobert, about seven years old, under the
care of Grimoald, mayor of his palace, who treacherously sent him
into Ireland, and placed his own son Childebert on the throne. This
usurper reigned seven months, as Schoëpflin proves from the express
testimony of Chronicon Brevissimum, and from circumstances mentioned
by Fredegarius, against the mistake of the authors, l'Art de
vérifier les Dates, p. 481, who say he only reigned seven days. By
an insurrection of the people, Grimoald and his son were deposed,
and both perished in prison: but Dagobert not being found, Clovis
II. united Austrasia to his other dominions. Dagobert II., by the
assistance of St. Wilfrid, afterwards archbishop of York, returned
into France eighteen years after the death of his father, and
recovered Alsace and some other provinces by the cession either of
Childeric II., son of Clovis II., (then monarch of all France,) or
of his brother Theodoric III., who succeeded him before the month of
April, in 674: for the reign of Dagobert II must be dated from the
latter end of 673, with Henault, or from 674, with Schoëpflin. The