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 0777 - 0810 (~ 33 years)
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| Name |
Carloman Pepin |
| Suffix |
King of Italy |
| Born |
Apr 0777 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
8 Jul 0810 |
| Person ID |
I11736 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
1 Oct 2011 |
| Father |
Charlemagne, Emperor of the West, King of Franks, King of the Lombards. Holy Roman Emperor, b. 2 Apr 0742, Ingolheim  , d. 28 Jan 0814, Aachen (Age 71 years) |
| Mother |
Hildegarde, b. 0758, of Vinzgau , d. 30 Apr 0783 (Age ~ 24 years) |
| Married |
0771 |
Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) |
| Family ID |
F2676 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Pepin (April 777 – 8 July 810) was the son of Charlemagne and king of the Lombards (781–810) under the authority of his father.
Pepin was the second son of Charlemagne by his then-wife Hildegard.[1] He was born Carloman, but when his half-brother Pepin the Hunchback betrayed their father, the royal name Pepin passed to him. He was made king of Lombardy[2] after his father's conquest of the Lombards, in 781, and crowned by Pope Hadrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy.
He was active as ruler of Lombardy and worked to expand the Frankish empire. In 791, he marched a Lombard army into the Drava valley and ravaged Pannonia, while his father marched along the Danube into Avar territory. Charlemagne left the campaigning to deal with a Saxon revolt in 792. Pepin and Duke Eric of Friuli continued, however, to assault the Avars' ring-shaped strongholds. The great Ring of the Avars, their capital fortress, was taken twice. The booty was sent to Charlemagne in Aachen and redistributed to all his followers and even to foreign rulers, including King Offa of Mercia. A celebratory poem, De Pippine regis Victoria Avarica, was composed after Pepin forced the Avar khagan to submit in 796.[3] This poem was composed at Verona, Pepin's capital after 799 and the centre of Carolingian Renaissance literature in Italy. The Versus de Verona (c.800), an urban encomium of the city, likewise praises king Pepin.[4]
His activities included a long, but unsuccessful siege of Venice in 810. The siege lasted six months and Pepin's army was ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and was forced to withdraw. A few months later Pepin died.
He married Bertha, whose ancestry is not known from any reliable source although spuriously she has been called the daughter of William of Gellone, count of Toulouse. He and Bertha had five daughters : (Adelaide, married Lambert I of Nantes; Atala; Gundrada; Bertha; and Tetrada), all of whom but the eldest were born between 800 and Pepin's death and died before their grandfather's death in 814. Pepin also had an illegitimate son Bernard. Pepin was expected to inherit a third of his father's empire, but he predeceased him. The Lombard crown passed on to his illegitimate son Bernard, but the empire went to Pepin's younger brother Louis the Pious.
1. "Carolingians", Medlands by Charles Cawley citing the Gesta Mettensium
2. The title king of Italy for Pepin is simply false. It would be as to style "king of France" and "king of Germany" his relatives ruling the other parts of the Empire.
3. Peter Godman (1985), Latin Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press), 186–191.
4. Godman, 180–187.
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