Baptême
de Sigebert III par Jacobus De Voragine et Richard De Montbaston, Legenda
aurea, 1348. Traduction Jean De Vignay. Français 241, fol. 68v.
Saint Sigebert III
Fils de Dabogert
1er (+ 656)
Sigebert ou Sigisbert.
Roi d'Austrasie (Nord Est de la France et région rhénane en Allemagne), il gouverna ses Etats avec sagesse et les dota de nombreux monastères pour y faire rayonner la foi. Il mourut à l'âge de vingt-cinq ans sans avoir connu beaucoup de succès durant son règne. Il fut inhumé dans l'église de Saint-Martin de Metz qu'il avait fondée. Il est également considéré comme le fondateur des abbayes de Malmédy et Stavelot en Belgique sur des terrains cédés par saint Remacle.
Saint Sigisbert, roi d'Austrasie, était fils de Dagobert 1er, roi des Francs. On lui attribue la fondation d'une douzaine de monastères, dont celui de Saint-Martin-devant-Metz (aujourd'hui Le Ban-Saint-Martin). Il mourut vers l'âge de vingt-huit ans, le 1er février 656. son corps reposa dans l'abbaye jusqu'à sa ruine en 1552. Ses reliques sont conservées à la cathédrale de Nancy. Saint Sigisbert est patron de la ville de Nancy.
À Metz, en 656, saint Sigisbert III, roi d'Austrasie, qui construisit les
monastères de Stavelot, Malmédy et beaucoup d'autres, et fit de larges aumônes
aux églises et aux pauvres.
Martyrologe romain
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Saint SIGISBERT
Fils du ‘Bon Roi
Dagobert’, Sigisbert ou Sigebert régna sur l’Austrasie de 639 à 656. Il fut dès
sa mort honoré comme saint. Il fut inhumé à Metz, dans l’abbaye Saint-Martin où
son tombeau devint le but d’un pèlerinage. En 1552, lors du siège de Metz par Charles-Quint,
l’abbaye fut détruite et le corps de saint Sigisbert fut apporté à Nancy et
déposé dans l’église du prieuré Notre-Dame, puis à la Primatiale. Les ducs
honorèrent particulièrement le saint roi qui les avait précédés en Lorraine, et
en firent le saint patron de la capitale ducale. Son corps, qui était conservé
à la cathédrale dans la niche du coeur et était resté intact depuis mille ans,
fut profané à la révolution mais quelques personnes purent en sauver des
parties qui, en 1803, furent replacées dans le reliquaire où elles sont encore
conservées. Une statue du saint roi orne la façade, une chapelle latérale lui
est dédiée, et les deux tableaux du choeur dépeignent l’une son couronnement,
l’autre le souverain servant les pauvres.
SOURCE : http://www.introibo.fr/Saint-Sigisbert-Roi
Saint Sigisbert
Pour donner satisfaction
à l'aristocratie austrasienne, qui exige une certaine autonomie, son père
Dagobert Ier lui donne en 632 le royaume d'Austrasie qui demeure cependant au
sein du royaume franc. À la mort de Dagobert en 639, Sigisbert reçoit l'Austrasie,
désormais affranchie de toute sujétion à la Neustrie. Il gouverna ses Etats
avec sagesse et les dota de nombreux monastères pour y faire rayonner la foi
catholique. Il est également considéré comme le fondateur des abbayes de
Malmédy et Stavelot en Belgique sur des terrains cédés par Saint Remacle.
Sigisbert fut assassiné le 1er février 656 à 25 ans, dans un complot organisé
par son propre frère Clovis II, dans le seul but d'annexer ses terres. Il fut
inhumé dans l'église de Saint-Martin de Metz qu'il avait fondée. Ses restes,
profanés à la Révolution, sont conservés à la cathédrale de Nancy, ville dont
il est le Saint Patron. Une confrérie sous le titre de Saint Sigisbert fut
instaurée par le pape Clément IX.
Prière à Saint Sigisbert
O Dieu, qui, avez fait
passer d'un royaume de la terre à la gloire du royaume des cieux le bienheureux
Sigisbert, faites, s'il vous plaît, que par ses mérites et son intercession,
nous devenions les héritiers du Roi des rois, Jésus-Christ votre Fils. Par le
même Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ votre Fils, qui, étant Dieu, vit et règne avec
vous, en l'unité du Saint-Esprit, dans les siècles des siècles. Ainsi soit-il.
SOURCE : http://notredamedesneiges.over-blog.com/article-10327664.html
Miniatura
con Battesimo di
Sigiberto (XVI secolo). Cronaca francese di Guillaume Crétin,
manoscritto di Rouen; Biblioteca Nazionale di Francia.
Saint Sigebert III of
Austrasia
Also
known as
Sigebert the Younger
Sigisbert…
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Born a prince the
eldest son of King Dagobert
I. Brother of King Clovis
II. Baptized by Saint Amand
of Maastricht at Orléans, France. Educated by Blessed Pepin
of Landen. His father died in 638 which
made the boy king of Austrasia.
In 640 he
tried to add Thuringia to his kingdom, leading his own army at
the age of ten, but was defeated by Duke Radulph.
Following this and some other political bungles, the mayor of the palace,
Grimoald, began to assume more power, and eventually became the true ruler of
Austrasia; Sigebert became known as a “do nothing” king who
withdrew from the political scene. Spiritual student of Saint Cunibert
of Cologne. Father of Saint Dagobert
II. Sigebert became known for his personal sanctity, his pious life in the
royal court,
and his works of charity; he built several hospitals,
churches, homes for the poor,
and monasteries,
including Stavelot and Malmédy.
Born
1
February 656 at Metz, France of
natural causes
relics housed
in the cathedral of Nancy, France
relics damaged
and defiled during the French
Revolution
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Saints
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Born in 631; died 656.
Saint Sigebert, son of Dagobert I and baptized by Saint Amand at Orléans,
became king of Austrasia (eastern France) at the age of seven, while his
brother Clovis II ruled the western portion of his father’s domain. Under the
influence of Blessed Pepin of Landen, Saint Cunibert of Cologne, and other
saintly souls, the young king grew into pious adulthood. He died at the age of
25. Though not a secular success as a ruler, he was revered as the founder of
numerous monasteries (including Stavelot and Malmédy), hospitals, and churches.
He is the patron saint of Nancy (Benedictines, Farmer).
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Rabenstein. Saints of the Day, 1998. CatholicSaints.Info.
16 January 2022. Web. 22 January 2026.
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St. Sigebert II., French King of
Austrasia, Confessor
DAGOBERT I., king of France, led
for some time a very dissolute life, but was touched by an extraordinary grace
upon the birth of his son Sigebert, and from that time was entirely converted
to God. Bagnetrude, our saint’s mother, is only styled the concubine of
Dagobert, though he was publicly married to her. The father desiring to have
his son baptized by the most holy prelate of his dominions, recalled St. Amand,
bishop of Maestricht, whom he had banished for his zeal in reproving his vices,
fell at his feet at Clichi, near Paris, to ask his pardon, promised amendment,
and by the advice of St. Owen and St. Eligius, then laymen in his court,
engaged him to initiate his son in the sacrament of regeneration. The ceremony
was performed with great pomp at Orleans, Charibert, king of part of Aquitain,
and brother to Dagobert, being god-father. The young prince’s education was
intrusted by the father to the blessed Pepin of Landen, mayor of his palace,
who being forced by the envy of the nobility to withdraw for some time, carried
Sigebert into the dominions of Charibert in Aquitain, where he enjoyed a
considerable estate, the paternal patrimony of his wife the blessed Itta. Pepin
remained there about three years; after which term he was recalled to the court
of Dagobert, who declared his son Sigebert, though only three years old, in
633, king of Austrasia, and gave him for his ministers, St. Cunibert,
archbishop of Cologne, and duke Adelgise, and committed the administration of
the whole kingdom to Pepin, whom he always kept near his own person. Dagobert’s
second son, Clovis II., was born in the following year, 634, and to him the
father allotted for his inheritance all the western part of France, containing
all Neustria and part of Burgundy. 1 Austrasia,
or Eastern France, (in which sense Austria retains a like name in Germany,) at
that time comprised Provence and Switzerland, (dismembered from the ancient
kingdom of Burgundy,) the Albigeois, Auvergne, Quercy, the Cevennes, Champagne,
Lorraine, Upper Picardy, the archbishopric of Triers, and other states reaching
to the borders of Friesland; Alsace, the Palatinate, Thuringia, Franconia,
Bavaria, Suabia, and the country which lay betwixt the Lower Rhine and Old
Saxony. Dagobert died in 638, and was buried at the abbey of St. Denys, of
which he was the munificent founder. According to the settlement which he had
made, he was succeeded in Austrasia by St. Sigebert, and in the rest of France
by his youngest son Clovis II. Pepin of Landen, who had been mayor of the
palace to the father, discharged the same office to his death under St.
Sigebert, and not content to approve himself a faithful minister, and true
father to the prince, he formed him from the cradle to all heroic Christian
virtues. By his prudence, virtue, and valour, St. Sigebert in his youth was
beloved and respected by his subjects, and feared by all his enemies. Pepin
dying in 640, the virtuous king appointed his son Grimoald mayor of his palace.
He reigned in perfect intelligence with his brother, of which we have few examples
among the Merovingian kings whenever the French monarchy was divided. The
Thuringians revolting, he reduced them to their duty; and this is the only war
in which he was engaged. The love of peace disposed his heart to be a fit
temple of the Holy Ghost, whom he invited into his soul by assiduous prayer,
and the exercise of all Christian virtues. His patrimony he employed in
relieving the necessitous, and in building or endowing monasteries, churches,
and hospitals. He founded twelve monasteries, the four principal of which were
Cougnon, now a priory, not far from Bouillon; Stavelo and Malmedi, two miles
from each other, and St. Martin’s, near Metz. St. Remaclus brought from
Solignac the rule of St. Columban, which king Sigebert in his charter to Cougnon
calls the rule of the ancient fathers. This that holy abbot established first
at Cougnon, and afterwards at Malmedi and Stavelo. A life filled with good
works, and devoted all to God, can never be called short. God was pleased to
call this good king from the miseries of this world to the recompense of his
labours 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 honoured among the saints in a 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.
Note 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 Lewis d’Armagnac, duke of Nemeurs, slain at the battle
of Cerignole, where he commanded for Lewis 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 Vaissette, Hist. de Languedoc. Henault, Abr. de l’Hist. de France,
t. 1. p. 36. and 818. [back]
Note
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 Chronieon 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 spirit of religion and piety, which he had learned in the
school of afflictions, and under the great masters of a spiritual life, who
then flourished among the Scots and Irish, was eminently the distinguishing
part of his character. As he resided chiefly in Alsace, he filled that country,
in the first place, with monuments of his devotion, being so liberal in
founding and endowing monasteries and churches, that though his reign was only
of six years, Schoëpflin assures us the French church is not more indebted to
any reign than to this, at least in those parts, (p. 740.) St. Wilfrid, bishop
of York, had exceedingly promoted his return into France; and when that prelate
was compelled to leave England, Dagobert entertained him with the most cordial
affection, and, upon the death of St. Arbogastus, earnestly pressed him to
accept of that see. St. Wilfrid declined that dignity, promising, however, to
call upon this good king in his return from Rome, where he obtained a sentence
of pope Agatho in his favour. But coming back into France, he found his royal
friend cut off by a violent death. It is the general persuasion of the French
historians, that the impious Ebroin, mayor of the palace to Theodoric III.,
king of Burgundy and Neustria, was the author of his death, with a view to
seize his dominions. Dagobert was murdered by assassins at Stenay upon the
Meuse, now the best town in the duchy of Bar in Lorraine. The people, however,
chose Pepin and Martin dukes or governors of Austrasia, who defended their
liberty against Ebroin. Martin was afterwards assassinated by the contrivance
of Ebroin, and Ebroin by Ermenfrid: but Pepin, in 687, defeated Theodoric III.
at Testry, took Paris, and the king himself; from which time, under the title
of mayor, he enjoyed the supreme power in the French monarchy. The death of St.
Dagobert happened in 679, on the 23rd of December, on which day he is
commemorated in the Martyrology of Ado and others, and honoured as a martyr at
Stenay, in the diocess of Verdun, ever since the eighth century. The church of
Strasburg was much enriched by this prince, as may be seen in Schoëpflin’s
Alsatia Illustrata. The same author gives an account of some of the monasteries
which were founded by this prince in those parts, (c. 11. s. 254. p. 736.) and
shows from his charters that the palace where he chiefly resided was at
Isenburg in Alsace. (Sect. 1. c. 10. s. 146. p. 693.) The year of the death of
Dagobert II. is learned from the life of St. Wilfrid, who returned from Rome
when St. Agatho sat in St. Peter’s chair. See on this holy king the lives of
St. Wilfrid and St. Salaberga; also his charters; and, among the moderns, Dan.
Schoëpflin, professor of history and eloquence at Strasburg, in his Alsatia
Illustrata, anno 1751. Sect. 2. c. 1. s. 3. p. 740. 743. and s. 1. c. 10. s.
146. p. 693. c. 11. s. 254. p. 736. Also Calmet. Hist. de Lorraine, t. 1. l.
10. n. 16. p. 432. The first edition of this work was given in 1728, in three
volumes folio, but the second edition is so much enlarged as to fill six
volumes folio. The reign of Dagobert II. escaped most of the French historians;
which omission, and a false epoch of the beginning of the reign of Dagobert I.
brought incredible confusion into the chronology and history of most of the
Merovingian kings, which Adrian Valcis, Henschenius, Le Cointe, Pagi,
Longuerue, and others, have taken great pains to clear up. [back]
Rev. Alban Butler
(1711–73). Volume I: January. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
San Sigisberto III
il Giovane Re d’Austrasia
Festa: 1 febbraio
Metz, Austrasia, 630 - 1
febbraio 656
Re dei Franchi
d'Austrasia dal 633 al 656, nacque nel 630 da Dagoberto I e Ragintrude. A soli
4 anni fu incoronato re, ma il potere effettivo passò al maggiordomo di palazzo
Grimoaldo, che lo adottò come figlio. Fu un re dedito soprattutto alle opere di
beneficenza e di pietà. Fondò i monasteri di Cugnon, Stavelot-Malmédy e San
Martino a Metz, e protesse e favorì l'attività dei santi vescovi Amando e
Remaclo. Morì a soli 26 anni, il 1° febbraio 656, e fu sepolto nel monastero di
San Martino. Fu proclamato santo nel 1170 e il suo culto si diffuse in
particolare in Lorena.
Martirologio
Romano: A Metz in Austrasia, oggi in Francia, san Sigisberto III, re, che
costruì i monasteri di Stavelot, Malmédy e molti altri e distribuì con
generosità elemosine alle chiese e ai poveri.
Sigiberto nacque verso il 630 dal re dei Franchi Dagoberto I (600-639) e dalla regina Ragintrude. Per motivi politici del tempo, Dagoberto I diede al figlio, bimbo di quasi quattro anni, la corona del regno d’Austrasia nel 634 a Metz la capitale, affidandone la custodia e l’educazione al vescovo s. Cuniberto di Colonia Agrippina († 663 ca.) e al duca Adalgiso.
Qualche decennio prima nel 613, il regno dei Merovingi, dinastia dei Franchi Salii, aveva iniziato la sua decadenza con la suddivisione nei regni di Burgundia, Neustria, Aquitania, e Austrasia (parte orientale con capitale Metz), che spesso combatterono fra loro.
Ad undici anni nel 641, Sigiberto III prese parte ad una sfortunata guerra contro la Turingia (regione storica della Germania orientale); mentre dal 643 egli vide accrescere il potere del maestro di palazzo Grimoaldo, figlio del ‘maggiordomo’ Pipino I il Vecchio († 639) e gli si affezionò talmente che ne adottò il figlio; particolarità politiche del tempo, difficili a comprendersi con la mentalità odierna.
I “maggiordomi” presso i Merovingi, erano maestri di palazzo con funzioni di primo ministro; divenne una carica ereditaria nei regni di Austrasia e Neustria e nel secolo VIII riuscirono a sostituirsi nel governo agli stessi re, che presero la definizione di “rois fainéants” (re fannulloni).
Infatti nonostante che dal matrimonio di Sigiberto III con Inechilde, nascesse oltre la figlia Blethilde, anche il figlio Dagoberto II, nominato suo successore, il maggiordomo Grimoaldo, dopo la morte di Sigiberto, tentò di far salire al trono il proprio figlio.
Alla luce di questo contesto storico, poco si sa di Sigiberto III, che sempre più appariva come un re ombra, senza potere effettivo, ma dedito soprattutto ad opere di beneficenza e di pietà.
Da documenti pervenutaci, si apprende con certezza che fondò i monasteri di Cugnon, Stavelot-Malmédy, e S. Martino presso Metz; la tradizione vuole invece che sia fondatore di ben dodici monasteri.
Sotto il suo regno, il Cristianesimo si diffuse profondamente nell’Austrasia, protesse e favorì l’attività dei santi vescovi Amando e Remaclo; in una sua lettera scritta al vescovo di Cahors, Desiderio, Sigiberto diceva che la pace era stabile nel regno e che i suoi scopi erano una vita vissuta nella grazia di Dio, in pace con il suo popolo e la beatitudine.
Papa Martino I (649-655) gli chiese, tramite il vescovo s. Amando, il suo aiuto contro i “monoteliti” (seguaci di una teoria religiosa elaborata proprio nel VII secolo in seno alla Chiesa bizantina; essi riconoscevano le due nature di Cristo, ma affermavano che in lui la volontà divina predominava su quella umana).
Sigiberto III il Giovane, morì ad appena 26 anni, il 1° febbraio 656 a Metz e fu sepolto nel monastero di San Martino da lui fondato.
Il culto per il santo re sorse casualmente, quando nel 1063 le reliquie furono spostate nello stesso monastero, a causa del crollo della cripta; fu proclamato santo nel 1170, quando fu effettuata la cosiddetta “elevatio” delle reliquie, atto di proclamazione in uso nel passato prima del 1500.
Dopo le varie distruzioni del monastero, nel 1552 quella definitiva, le reliquie furono portate al convento di S. Giorgio a Nancy.
In seguito i duchi di Lorena, che si ritenevano successori del santo re, alimentarono il suo culto, nominandolo nel 1742 patrono del Ducato e le reliquie furono traslate nella cattedrale di Nancy, città di cui è tuttora il santo patrono.
Buona parte delle reliquie furono bruciate nel 1797 durante la Rivoluzione, quelle recuperate si trovano in varie città francesi; è invocato nella risoluzione dei problemi politici e dal 1663 anche contro il maltempo.
La sua festa si celebra il 1° febbraio, anche se nel tempo passato era ricordato a Metz, Strasburgo e St-Dié in altre date.
Autore: Antonio Borrelli
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92259
Den hellige Sigebert III
av Austrasia (~631-656)
Minnedag:
1. februar
Skytshelgen for Lorraine;
for Nancy; mot regn og ulykke
Den hellige Sigebert
(Sigibert; lat: Sigisbertus) ble født rundt 631 (630?) i Frankrike. Han var
eldste sønn av frankerkongen Dagobert I (628-39), som levde et utsvevende liv
inntil sønnens fødsel fikk ham til å ta et oppgjør med sin tidligere
livsførsel. Han ønsket at Sigebert skulle døpes av den helligste mannen i det
frankiske kongeriket og sendte bud på den hellige Amandus av Belgia,
som han tidligere hadde forvist fordi han hadde irettesatt kongen for ulike
forhold. Amandus døpte gutten med stor pomp og prakt i Orléans.
Dagobert hersket over
hele frankerriket. For å tilfredsstille aristokratiet Austrasia som hadde et
visst selvstyre, skal Sigebert allerede som fireåring i 634 ha blitt utnevnt av
sin far til konge av Austrasia og satt på tronen i hovedstaden Metz, og resten
av livet regjerte han som kong Sigebert III, selv om Austrasia forble en del av
det større frankerriket. Austrasia var den nordøstre delen av Frankerriket og
besto av deler av det nåværende Øst-Frankrike, Vest-Tyskland og Nederland, med
hovedstad tidvis i Metz, Reims og Soissons. Like før Dagoberts død i 639 ble
riket delt og Austrasia ble et selvstendig kongerike igjen. Sigeberts bror
Klodvig II (639-57) regjerte resten av Frankrike (Neustria og Burgund).
Like før sin død betrodde
Dagobert Sigeberts utdannelse til den salige hushovmesteren (major domus) Pipin av Landen,
som imidlertid døde allerede året etter. Sigebert ble oppdratt i den kristne
tro av den hellige biskop Kunibert av Köln,
som regjerte for den umyndige Sigebert sammen med hertug Adalgisel. Sigebert
prøvde forgjeves å legge Thüringen til sitt kongerike, men ble beseiret av
hertug Radulf i 640. Kongen var bare ti år gammel, men han ledet sin hær.
Fredagar-krøniken skriver at nederlaget etterlot ham gråtende i salen. Av dette
kan vi formode at merovingerdynastiets fall var et resultat av barnestyre, for
både Sigebert og hans yngre bror Klodvig II av Neustria var prepubertale og
kunne ikke kjempe på slagmarken, og deres regenter hadde bare sine egne
interesser av syne.
Det var under Sigeberts
regjeringstid at hushovmesteren (major domus) begynte å spille den
viktigste rollen i det politiske livet i Austrasia. Hushovmestrene var
opprinnelig forvaltere av kongsgodset, men etter hvert ble de delrikenes
ledende størrelser som en slags pseudo-arvelige førsteministre og de facto herskere;
i oversettelser gjerne omtalt som fyrster eller hertuger. Sigeberts
hushovmester var Grimoald, sønn av de salige Pipin av Landen og Itta av Nivelles.
Pipin var den første av de karolingiske hushovmestrene. Det ble han i 622 under
merovingerkongen Dagobert I (628-39), etter at han hadde vært leder for den
frankisk-austrasiske adelen mot den berømte og beryktede dronning Brynhilda.
Grimoalds søstre var de hellige Gjertrud av
Nivelles og Begga av Andenne,
mens hans datter var den hellige Wilfetrudis (Wulfetrude).
Sigebert giftet seg med
Kimnekild (Chimnechild, Imnikilde), og de fikk minst to barn, først en sønn,
den hellige kongen Dagobert II (673-79),
og deretter datteren Bilihild (Bilichild, Bilichildis, Bilichilde, Blithilde).
Ekteskapet var først barnløst, og Grimoald hadde da sørget for at kong Sigebert
adopterte hans egen uekte sønn (f. 640/45), som fikk merovingernavnet Kildebert
(Childebert) (hans opprinnelige navn er ukjent). Han var åpenbart oppkalt etter
kong Kildebert II (575-95), som ble adoptert av sin onkel, den hellige
kong Guntram
av Burgund. Men Grimoalds forhåpninger ble i første omgang skuffet da
Kimnekild etter mange års barnløshet plutselig fødte Dagobert.
Sigeberts styre var
bemerkelsesverdig fredelig, bortsett fra striden i Thüringen, og den unge
kongen viet seg til nestekjærlig arbeid. I 649 ba den hellige pave Martin I (649-53)
ham om støtte i sin kamp mot monoteletismen. Han var ingen strålende politisk
skikkelse og har vært beskrevet som den første roi fainéant («gjøre-ingenting-konge»)
i det merovingiske Frankrike. «De dådløse konger» eller «de late kongene» er
også historiens navn på de siste merovingerne. Et dynasti som setter barn til
verden i 14-15-årsalderen og er utlevd i begynnelsen av tyveårene, har ikke
store utsikter til å få leve lenge på jorden.
Men Sigebert var kjent
som en bønnens mann og for sin gavmildhet i å utruste hospitaler, klostre og
kirker. Han grunnla tolv klostre – i følge Sigebert d'Usuard var det tyve. I
sitt dødsår 656 grunnla han klostrene Stablo (i dag Stavelot i Øst-Belgia),
Malmédy (sør for Hohen Venn i Belgia) og Saint-Martin i Metz i Lorraine.
Sigebert ble myrdet i et
komplott allerede den 1. februar 656 i Metz, bare rundt 25 år gammel, og det
ble hevdet at hans bror Klodvig II sto bak (noen kilder sier at han kanskje
døde så sent som i 660). Han ble gravlagt i klosterkirken Saint-Martin i Metz.
Hushovmesteren Grimoald, fikk brakt Sigeberts sønn Dagobert til Irland for å
utelukke ham fra tronfølgen. Etterfølger ble Kildebert, som altså regnes som
Grimoalds sønn som Sigebert hadde latt adoptere, men som noen forskere nå mener
var Sigeberts sønn som Grimoald hadde adoptert for å utelukke Sigeberts enke
Kimnekild som en konkurrent i regjeringen. Men rundt 660 avsatte den lokale
adelen usurpatoren Kildebert og hans far Grimoald.
I 1603 kom Sigeberts
relikvier til Nancy, og han er byens skytshelgen. Relikviene ble skjendet under
Den franske revolusjon. Hans minnedag er 1. februar. Han fremstilles som oftest
som konge, ofte deler han ut almisser.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming, Butler (II), Benedictines, Bunson, Schauber/Schindler,
Melchers, Gorys, KIR, Infocatho, Bautz, Heiligenlexikon,
en.wikipedia.org - Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Opprettet: 2005-07-17 22:51 - Sist oppdatert: 2007-06-17 23:01
SOURCE : https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/saustras
Sigibert III. von
Austrasien
auch: Sigisbert, Sigebert
Gedenktag katholisch: 1.
Februar
Übertragung der Gebeine nach Metz: 30. Juni
Name bedeutet: der
glänzende Sieger (althochdt.)
König von Austrasien
* um 630
† 1. Februar 656 in Metz (?)
in Frankreich
Sigibert wurde auf
Betreiben der Großen in seinem Land schon als Kind im Alter von drei Jahren von
seinem Vater Dagobert I. auf den Thron eines Unterkönigs in Austrasien erhoben,
Regenten waren Herzog Adalgisel und Bischof Kunibert
von Köln. Nach dem Tode des Vaters 639 unternahmen die für ihn Regierenden
mehrere - fehlgeschlagene - Versuche zur Erringung der Macht im gesamten
Frankenreich, nach der formellen Reichsteilung von 639 war Sigibert aber
unbestrittener König in ganz Austrasien; politisch bestimmend war neben Bischof
Kunibert nun Pippin
der Ältere.
Desiderius
von Cahors war wesentlich beteiligt, dass Sigibert sich der Kirche
gegenüber als wohltätig erwies; sein Eintreten zugunsten von Remaclus führten
zur Gründung von Klöstern in den Ardennen, zunächst in Cugnon,
dann in Stablo - dem heutigen Stavelot -
und Malmedy und
insbesondere das Kloster Saint-Martin-devant-Metz - im heutigen Le
Ban-Saint-Martin bei Metz; weitere Klöster und viele Kirchen und
Spitäler gehen auf seine Unterstützung zurück.
Sigiberts Sohn Dagobert II. wurde
zunächst sein Nachfolger, konnte sich nach dem Tod des Vaters aber erst 673
durchsetzen.
An Sigiberts Grab in der
Kirche des von ihm gegründeten Klosters
Saint-Martin-devant-Metz entwickelte sich eine Verehrung, die durch
die im 11. Jahrhundert verfassten Lebensgeschichten, die ihn als heiligen König
und Nationalhelden von Lotharingien zeichneten,
stark gefördert wurde. Als das Kloster 1552 zerstört wurde, wurden die Gebeine zuerst
nach Metz und
dann in die Kathedrale von
Nancy gebracht. Dort wurden einige Reliquien in der Französischen Revolution
zerstreut und verbrannt, die Reste 1803 in ein neues Reliquiar gelegt.
Patron von Lothringen und Nancy;
gegen Regen und Unglück
Stadlers
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von Sigibert und seine Lebensgeschichte gibt es online zu lesen in den
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Quellen:
• Vera Schauber, Hanns Michael Schindler: Heilige und Patrone im Jahreslauf. Pattloch, München 2001
• Charlotte Bretscher-Gisinger, Thomas Meier (Hg.): Lexikon des Mittelalters. CD-ROM-Ausgabe. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000
• Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, begr. von Michael Buchberger. Hrsg. von
Walter Kasper, 3., völlig neu bearb. Aufl., Bd. 9. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau
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