 714 - 768 (54 years)
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| Name |
Pepin III "the Short" [1] |
| Suffix |
King of France |
| Born |
714 |
Jupille-sur-Meuse, Austrasia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
24 Sep 768 |
| Person ID |
I5909 |
adkinshorton |
| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2013 |
| Father |
Charles 'the Hammer' MARTEL, Mayor of Austrasia and Neustria, b. 23 Aug 689, Heristal, Leige, Belgium , d. 22 Oct 741, Quierzy-sur-Oise, Aisne, PicarDE, France (Age 52 years) |
| Mother |
Duchess Rotrude de Moselle OF AUSTRASIA, b. 690, Moselle, Lorraine, France , d. 724 (Age 34 years) |
| Married |
Abt 710 |
Liege, Belgium |
| Family ID |
F25270 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Bartrada DE LEON, b. 720, Laon (Aisne), France , d. 12 Jul 783 (Age 63 years) |
| Married |
Abt 740 |
| Children |
| | 1. Daughter |
| + | 2. Charles I 'the Great' CHARLEMAGNE, King of the Franks, b. 2 Apr 742, Aachen, Rhineland, Germany , d. 28 Jun 814, Aachen, Rhineland, Germany (Age 72 years) |
| + | 3. Carloman KING OF AUSTRASIA, b. 747, d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F25269 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Pepin (Pippin) II., the Short, King of France from 752 to 768, born in 714, died in 768. He had much to do; the Saxons, Bavarians, and Arabs were all menacing or revolting, and he had to rush from one part of the kingdom to the other, defending its frontiers, and getting no help from the "stupid sluggard king," at Paris. At last, impatient of the farce, he sent this question to the Pope: "Who is king, he who governs or he who wears the crown?" "He who governs, of course," answered the Pope. "That is myself," said the little man with a great will; "so the sluggards shall go to sleep forever," and he sent the last of them, Childeric III., the last of the Merovingians, into a monastery. Then the nobles put their shields together, and the little man was seated on a chair, on their shields, and with him thus, "shouting and raising their shields as high as they could, they marched three times, round the parliament, and then, by St. Boniface, he was anointed Archbishop of Metz, A.D. 752. Pepin did not forget that he owed a debt of gratitude to the Pope for the answer he had given to his question, and when, shortly after, the Pope sent to complain of the trouble occasioned by the Lombards, Pepin crossed the Alps, punished the Lombards, took from them all the territory about Rome and gave it to the Pope "to belong to him and to the bishops of Rome forever. That was the beginning of the Papal sovereignty. The States of the Church, as they were called, remained under the sovereignty of the Popes until 1871." Pepin le Bref, King of France, died in 768. He married Bertha (Bertrada) of Laon. She died in 783.
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| Sources |
- [S18796] The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James, Vol. I.
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