Walbert III

Walbert III (born 560 AD) was a Frankish nobleman and a Merovingian Count.

Biography Walbert III was born in 560 in Francia. He was the son of Walbert II.

Walbert III's lineage traces to his great-grandfather, Albéron (Auberon or Alberic), son of Clodebald de Francie and grandson of Clodion the Hairy, King of the Franks. Walbert III descended from Walbert I who was the only survivor of his lineage after Clovis I hunted down the children of Clodio. Walbert I sought refuge with Emperor Zeno in Rome, marrying his daughter (or sister), Lucile of Pannonia. Walbert III's father, Walbert II the Younger, and his uncle, Ansbert, became patricians and Gallo-Roman senators. His brother Brunulf inherited the pagus of Cambrésis in addition to the Palace of Haucourt-en-Cambrésis and had a son named Brunulf II.

He put his son Walbert IV, the grandson of Charles de Hasbaye, at the royal court of King Clotaire II and later under his son, Dagobert I, during both their reigns in the 7th century. Walbert III's son Brunulphe, Count of the Adrennes married Vraye, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy with whom he had two daughters: Saint Aye and Clothilde. Saint Hydulphe, his nephew, later married to his granddaughter Saint Aye.

Death Count Walbert III died in the early 7th century in Kingdom of Austrasia, Francia.