King of the Franks Pepin III THE SHORT 0714 5400

KING OF THE FRANKS
Pepin III THE SHORT Sex: Male

Birth Date	0714 Jupille-sur-Meuse, LiÃ¨ge, Liege, Walloon Region, Belgium
Death Date	0768 SEP 24
Father	Charles Martel Mayor of the Palace THE HAMMER	Born: 0686 AUG 23 Herstal, LiÃ¨ge, Walloon Region, Belgium	Died: 0741 OCT 22
Mother	Rotrude	Born: 0690	Died: 0724

Pepin Notes:	Pepin or Pippin (714 â€“ 24 September 768), called the Short, and often known as Pepin the Younger or Pepin III,[1] was the Mayor of the Palace and Duke of the Franks from 741 and King of the Franks from 751 to 768. He was the father of Charlemagne. He was the son of Charles Martel, mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks, and of Rotrude of Trier (690â€“724). Assumption of power Pepins father, Charles Martel, died in 741. He divided the rule of the Frankish kingdom between Pepin and his elder brother, Carloman, his surviving sons by his first wife: Carloman became Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, Pepin became Mayor of the Palace of Neustria. Grifo, Charless son by his second wife, Swanahild (also known as Swanhilde), demanded a share in the inheritance, but he was imprisoned in a monastery by his two half-brothers. As in the Frankish realm the unity of the kingdom was essentially connected with the person of the king, Carloman, to secure this unity raised the Merovingian Childeric to the throne (743). In 747 he resolved to enter a monastery. This left Francia in the hands of Pepin as sole mayor of the palace and dux et princeps Francorum, a title originated by his grandfather and namesake Pepin of Heristal. At the time of Carlomans retirement, Grifo escaped his imprisonment and fled to Duke Odilo of Bavaria, who was married to Hiltrude, Pepins sister. Pepin put down the renewed revolt led by his half-brother and succeeded in completely restoring the boundaries of the kingdom. Under the reorganization of Francia by Charles Martel the dux et princeps Francorum were the commanders of the armies of the kingdom, in addition to their administrative duties as mayor of the palace, and specifically commander of the standing guard which Charles Martel had begun maintaining year-round since Toulouse in 721. First Carolingian king Pepin was subject to the decisions of Childric who had only the title of King but no power. Childric was considered a joke by the people. Since Pepin had control over the magnates and actually had the power of the king, he now addressed to Pope Zachary the suggestive question: In regard to the kings of the Franks who no longer possess the royal power, is this state of things proper?
Notes:	Hard pressed by the Lombards, Pope Zacharias welcomed this advance of the Franks which aimed at ending an intolerable condition of things, and at laying the constitutional foundations for the exercise of the royal power. The pope replied that such a state of things was not proper. The de facto power is more important than the de jure power. After this decision the throne was declared vacant. The crown was given him not by the Pope but by the Franks. According to the ancient custom Pepin was then elected King of the Franks by an assembly of Frankish leading-men, with a large portion of his army on hand (in the event that the nobility inclined not to honor the Papal bull), and anointed at Soissons, by Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, who, along with his niece, Saint Leoba, was a court advisor. Meanwhile, Grifo continued his rebellion, but was eventually killed in the battle of Saint-Jean de Maurienne in 753. Childeric III was deposed, his hair shaved off and he was confined to a monastery. He was the last of the Merovingians.
Notes:	Occupation: King of the Franks, Mayor of the Palaces of Neustria and Austrasia, King Pepin of France, Rei dos Francos, (Rey de los Francos, Mayordomo del Palacio de Neustria, Mayordomo del Palacio de Austrasia), Foi rei dos Francs (751-768). Foi o primeiro rei da din

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Bertrada Broadfoot of Laon Queen of the Franks BERTHA Sex: Female

Birth Date	0720
Death Date	0783 JUN 12
Father	Charibert	Born: 0696	Died: 0747
Mother		Born:

Bertrada Broadfoot of Laon Queen of the Franks BERTHA Notes:	Bertrada of Laon, also called Bertha Broadfoot (cf. latin: Regina pede aucae i.e. the queen with the goose-foot), (710/27 â€“ July 12, 783) was a Frankish queen. She was born in Laon, in todays Aisne, France, the daughter of Caribert of Laon. She married Pepin the Short, the son of the Frankish Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel, in 740, although the union was not canonically sanctioned until several years later. Eleven years later, in 751, Pepin and Bertrada became King and Queen of the Franks, following Pepins successful coup against the Frankish Merovingian monarchs. Bertrada and Pepin are known to have had four children, three sons and one daughter: of these, Charles (Charlemagne), Carloman, and Gisela survived to adulthood, whilst Pepin died in infancy. Charlemagne and Carloman would inherit the two halves of their fathers kingdom when he died, and Gisela became a nun. Bertrada lived at the court of her elder son Charles, and according to Einhard their relationship was excellent. She recommended he marry his first wife, Desiderata, a daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius, but he soon divorced her. Einhard claims this was the only episode that ever strained relations between mother and son. Bertrada lived with Charlemagne until her death in 783; the king buried her in Saint Denis Basilica with great honors.
Individual Notes:	Berthe was known as Berthe-au-grand-pied because one foot was larger than the other. Berthe was for many years, at least since 740, the concubine of Pepin III. In 749 she convinced him to marry her. Note - in 770: The winds of history in the year 770 no longer blow from Aquitaine but from Lombardy. This Kingdom, north of a strange Italy of the time [Italy being bitten into little pieces by the aspirations of the Lombards to the North, the Byzantines and the Pope. Charles, though the "devoted defender of the Holy Church and its auxilliaries in all things" as he refers to himself, should logically and normally have followed the politics of his father with respect to Rome, and therefore to protect the papacy from its enemies, the Lombards. But he would hear none of it. Carloman casts a benign eye on the Lombards, where Didier, the ancient Duke of Tuscanny still reigned. Bertrada, the widow of Pippin, despairing at the level of hate which separated her two sons, took matters into her hands, as a strong-willed woman is sometimes wont to do when endowed with power. She visits Carloman near Seltz [in Alsace], and secures his agreement from him. She crosses the Alps under the pretext of "worshiping in Rome the temples of the Holy Apostles" and visits Pope Stephen III. In fact, she had but one thing on her mind: To reconcile her two sons by bringing Charles closer to the Lombards, since Carloman is the friend of the ruler of Lombardy. The politics of the two brothers then would become tied to a common interest, That could be a first step. One could also marry Gisele, sister of Charles and Carloman to Didier"s son. Unfortunately, Gisele is not yet nubile. In the meantime, Bertrada proposes the marriage of her son Charles with Desiree, Didier"s daughter! The King of the Lombards accepts the proposal as does Charles. However, the future emperor is already attached to a young frankish woman, Himiltrude, who has born him a son and a daughter -- unfortunately, the son is hunchback. Although Himiltrude is only a concubine of the King, the Pope being furious with the developments bringing together his natural protectors, the Francs, with his natural enemies, the Lombards, calls the union of Charles to Desiree diabolical. How can the Francs, a race ".. endowed with such beautiful women ..." posibly consider a union with "...this fetid race of Lombards, the most perfidious, and odious of all races, who have never been counted in the race of civilized nations, and from whom leprosy came ..." Pope Stephen III exclaimed. Whiles Charles considers the matter, Bertrada gets Desiree and brings her to her son in Pavia. His first look at Desiree immediately caused him to miss Himiltrude. It seems that Desiree was the epitomy of ugliness. The marriage takes place anyway.
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Charles I Charlemagne King of the Franks, King of the Lombards, Emperor of the Romans "CHARLES THE GREAT"

b.0742 APR 02 Likely in present day Belgium or Germany
d.0814 JAN 28 Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Bertrada Broadfoot of Laon

Desiderata Gerperga dei Lombardi

1 Charles King of the Franks THE YOUNGER b.0772

2 Pepin Carloman King of Italy b.0777

Pepin Of Landen b.0580

Beggue Of Austrasia SAINT BEGGUE b.0613

II Pepin D'hÃ©ristal Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia THE FAT b.0635

Bernard King of Lombardy b.0797

II Pepin Lord of PÃ©ronne b.0817

I Heribert Count of Vermandois b.-848

3 I Louis Emperor THE PIOUS b.0778

I Lothair der Franken Emperor b.0795

II Louis e Jeune b.0825

Ermengarde de Loraine PRINCESS b.0827

I Ehrenfried Keldachgau and of Charmois Count in the Bliesgau b.0855

I Reginar of Lotharingia Duke of Lorraine and Count of Hainault LONGNECK b.0860

Gisele de Lorraine b.0830

II Lothair king of Lotharingia b.0835

Gisela of Lotharingia Princess Of Lorraine b.0869

Helletrude de Lorraine b.0836

baba of Spoleto countess of Babenberg, margravine in Frisia b.0838

Gisele of Cysoing b.0819

Heilwig di Friuli b.0824

Raoul de Gouy comte d'Ostrevent b.0873

4 Ruodhaid Abbrdd of Faremoutiers b.0790

5 hugo Archchancellor of the Empire b.0802

Petronelle de GÃ¢tinais b.0825

Ingelger count of Anjou b.0850

I Fulk count of Anjou b.0870

Ancestors Chart

Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-
Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel THE HAMMER b.0686 Herstal, LiÃ¨ge, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0741 See Notes	Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia Pepin D'hÃ©ristal II THE FAT b.0635 Herstal, LiÃ¨ge, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0714 See Notes	Ansegisel De metz b.0602 d.0662	Bishop of Metz Arnoul SAINT ARNOUL b.0582 Nancy, Lorraine, Frankish Kingdom d.0640 See Notes
				Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel THE HAMMER b.0686 Herstal, LiÃ¨ge, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0741 See Notes
			SAINT Dode Clotilde De Metz b.0583 d.0611 See Notes
				SAINT Dode Clotilde De Metz b.0583 d.0611 See Notes
		Beggue Of Austrasia SAINT BEGGUE b.0613	Pepin Of Landen b.0580 d.0640 See Notes	King of Italy Pepin Carloman b.0777 Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland d.0810 See Notes	King of the Franks, King of the Lombards, Emperor of the Romans Charles Charlemagne I CHARLES THE GREAT Holy Roman Emperor b.0742 Likely in present day Belgium or Germany d.0814 See Notes	King of the Franks Pepin III THE SHORT b.0714 Jupille-sur-Meuse, LiÃ¨ge, Liege, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0768 See Notes	Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel THE HAMMER b.0686 Herstal, LiÃ¨ge, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0741 See Notes	Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia Pepin D'hÃ©ristal II THE FAT b.0635 Herstal, LiÃ¨ge, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0714 See Notes	Ansegisel De metz b.0602 d.0662	MORE>
								Alpais von Echternach ALPAÃ¯DE Ð“ÐµÑ€Ð¸ÑÑ‚Ð°Ð»ÑŒÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ b.0654 d.0705 See Notes
							Rotrude b.0690 d.0724 See Notes
								Rotrude b.0690 d.0724 See Notes
						Queen of the Franks Bertrada Broadfoot of Laon BERTHA b.0720 d.0783 See Notes	count of Laon Charibert b.0696 d.0747
								Bertrade de Prum b.0670 d.0720
							Bertrade de Prum b.0670 d.0720
					Hildegard Of vinzgouw b.0754 Swabia (present Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg), Germany d.0783	Count in Kraichgau and Anglachgau Gerold Of Vinzgau b.0725 Anglachgau (within present Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg), Schwaben, Frankish Empire (present Germany) d.0784 See Notes	Frankish Aristocrat b.0660 Mainz, rhineland-palatinate, germany
								Hildegard Of vinzgouw b.0754 Swabia (present Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg), Germany d.0783
							Hildegard Of vinzgouw b.0754 Swabia (present Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg), Germany d.0783
						Duchess of Swabia Emma Of alemannia b.0726 Alamannia (present Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg), Frankish Empire (within present Germany) d.0783	Duke of the Alemannians Hnabi Herzog der alemannen b.0710 d.0788 See Notes	Huoching Of the Alemannians b.0675 d.0744 See Notes	Duke of the Alemannians Gotfrid b.0651 d.0709	MORE>
								Wife of Huoching der Alemannen b.0640 d.0708
							Hereswintha of the Saxons b.0700 Herzogtum Sachsen (within present Germany), Frankish Empire d.0747
								Hereswintha of the Saxons b.0700 Herzogtum Sachsen (within present Germany), Frankish Empire d.0747
				Hereswintha of the Saxons b.0700 Herzogtum Sachsen (within present Germany), Frankish Empire d.0747
			Itta of Nivelles SAINT ITTA b.0592 d.0652
				Itta of Nivelles SAINT ITTA b.0592 d.0652
	Alpais von Echternach ALPAÃ¯DE Ð“ÐµÑ€Ð¸ÑÑ‚Ð°Ð»ÑŒÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ b.0654 d.0705 See Notes

Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024-persons	-
Rotrude b.0690 d.0724 See Notes

2 persons	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 Persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-

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