Dagobert or Taginbert is a Germanic male given name, possibly from

Old Frankish Frankish ( reconstructed endonym: *), also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 10th centuries. Franks under king Chlodio settled in Roman Gaul in the 5th century. O ...

''Dag'' "day" and '' beraht'' "bright". Alternatively, it has been identified as

Gaulish Gaulish is an extinct Celtic languages, Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, ...

''dago'' "good" ''berxto'' "bright".

Animals

* Roi Dagobert (born 1964), thoroughbred racehorse

People

Dagobert I Dagobert I (; 603/605 – 19 January 639) was King of the Franks. He ruled Austrasia (623–634) and Neustria and Burgundy (629–639). He has been described as the last king of the Merovingian dynasty to wield real royal power, after which the ...

(605–639), Frankish king *

Dagobert II Dagobert II (; ; died 679) was a Merovingian king of the Franks, ruling in Austrasia from 675 or 676 until his death. He is one of the more obscure Merovingians. He has been considered a martyr since at least the ninth century. None of the narrati ...

(died 679), Frankish king * Dagobert III (699–715), Frankish king * Dagobert (died 675), son of the Frankish king

Childeric II Childeric II ( 653 – 675) was List of Frankish kings, King of the Franks in the 7th century. He ruled Austrasia from 662 and Neustria and Kingdom of Burgundy, Burgundy from 673 until his death, making him sole king for the final two years o ...

Mieszko I Mieszko I (; – 25 May 992) was Duchy of Poland (966–1025), Duke of Poland from 960 until his death in 992 and the founder of the first unified History of Poland, Polish state, the Civitas Schinesghe. A member of the Piast dynasty, he was t ...

(died 992), Duke of Poland, who adopted Christianity and was possibly baptised as Dagobert. * Dagobert of Pisa (died 1105), Archbishop of Pisa and first Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem * Dagobert (1222–1232), son of

Louis VIII of France Louis VIII (5 September 1187 8 November 1226), nicknamed The Lion (), was King of France from 1223 to 1226. As a prince, he invaded Kingdom of England, England on 21 May 1216 and was Excommunication in the Catholic Church, excommunicated by a ...

* Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert (1736–1794), French general * Erich Dagobert von Drygalski (1865–1949), German geographer, born in Königsberg * Dagobert Peche (1887–1923), Austrian artist and metalworker designer * Dagobert Biermann (1904–1943), Resistance fighter against the Nazis * Père Dagobert, Capuchin friar * Dagobert D. Runes (1902–1982), philosopher, translator, and friend of Albert Einstein * Dagoberto Campaneris Blanco, Major league baseball player * Dagobert Banzio (1957–2017), Ivorian politician * Dagobert Dang (born 1958), Cameroon footballer * Dagobert Frey (1883–1962), Austrian art historian and thief * Dagobert Friedländer (1826–1904), banker and politician * Dagobert von Gerhardt (1831–1910), German soldier, poet, and novelist * Dagobert, Archbishop of Sens * Dagobert Thometschek, German rower

Popular culture

Dagobert IX The ''Foundation'' series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. First published as a series of short stories and novellas from 1942 to 1950, and subsequently in three collections, for nearly thirty years the ...

, a Galactic Emperor in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation and Empire'' * The German, Dutch and Hungarian name of Disney character

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** hence, the pseudonym of extortionist Arno Funke * In Swedish, Norwegian and French, the cartoon character

Dagwood Bumstead Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in cartoonist Chic Young's long-running comic strip ''Blondie (comic strip), Blondie''. He debuted in the first strip on September 8, 1930. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune, but was dis ...

is named Dagobert with various surnames * The song "Le bon roi Dagobert" (song), named after Dagobert I * Dagobert, name of the dog in the French translation of

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's '' The Famous Five'' books (Timmy in the original) * '' Good King Dagobert'', a 1984 French-Italian film directed by Dino Risi * Dagobert is the name of a major character in the epic novel, "The Wandering Jew" by Eugene Sue.

Food

* Dagobert (sandwich), a sandwich of Belgian cuisine {{given name Masculine given names Surnames of Norman origin German masculine given names Germanic-language surnames