The unity of the vast Frankish monarchy was thus re-established, and Dagobert retained it by his moderation at home and abroad.

He was brave, and he made war on occasion; but, he did not permit himself to be dragged into it either by his own passions or by the unlimited taste of his lieges for adventure and plunder.

He found, on this point, salutary warnings in the history of his predecessors.

It was very often the Franks themselves, the royal "leudes," who plunged their kings into civil or foreign wars.

In 530, two sons of Clovis, Childebert and Clotaire, arranged to attack Burgundy and its king Godomar.