Dagobert, or bright as day, was that long-haired king who, next to Clovis, impressed the French imagination.  He was the employer of the great goldsmith St. Eloi, and the throne or chair of King Dagobert, ascribed to that great artificer, is still in existence.  A successor in the fainéant times was canonized, and together the two Dagoberts, making one, have become the theme first of heroic and then of burlesque in France. (History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)