1085 - *Pepin, II

Events

Event	Date	Place	Description	Sources
Birth [E18111]	635	Heristal, Liege, Belgium		1g 1h 1i 1j
Nobility Title [E18112]			King Pepin II
Death [E18113]	714-12-16	Junille, Meuse, Lorraine, France		1k 1l 1m 1n 1o
Birth [E18114]		Liège, Liege, Belgium		1p
Birth [E18115]		Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France		1q
Birth [E18116]	635	of Heristal Herstal, near Liege, in, Belgium		1r
Death [E18117]	16 DEC	Junille, Meuse, Lorraine, France		1s

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Metz, *Ansegisel of [I7630]	602	679
Mother	Landen, *Begga [I7631]	613	693
	*Pepin, II [I7621]	635	714-12-16

Families

Family of *Pepin, II and Herstal, *Chalpaide of [F2849]

Married

Wife

Herstal, *Chalpaide of [I7622] ( * + ... )

Event	Date	Place	Sources
Marriage [E21721]		Liège, Liege, Belgium	1t
Marriage [E21722]	675	Heristal, Liege, Belgium	1u
Marriage [E21723]	675	Heristal, Liege, Belgium	1v

Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
Martel, *Charles [I7611]	676	741-10-22
De Champagne, Dreux [I7632]	675

Narrative

KING PEPIN II DE AQUITAINE
Pepin II, called the Younger (823 - after 864 in Senlis), was King of Aquitaine from 838 as the successor upon the death of his father, Pepin I. Pepin II was eldest son of Pepin I and Ingeltrude,[1] daughter of Theodobert, count of Madrie. He was a grandson of the Emperor Louis the Pious.

Pepin was elected king upon his father's death by the nobles of Aquitaine who were keen to establish their independence from the Empire. However, Louis the Pious had appointed his son Charles the Bald as King of Aquitaine in 832 when he (nominally) dispossessed Pepin I. Pepin had thereafter been at war with his uncle Charles. Louis the Pious fully disinherited him at Crémieux and then at Worms in two subsequent divisions of the empire.

Louis demanded the Aquitainians send Pepin to Aachen to learn the ways of good governance however they refused. Pepin was in total control of Aquitaine until 841 when he went to his uncle Lothair I's aid at the Battle of Fontenay. Pepin defeated Charles the Bald, but Lothair was routed by Louis the German, another son of Emperor Louis. Pepin returned to Aquitaine and continued war with Charles the Bald.

In 844 Pepin made the fatal error of asking for help from Jarl Oscar, a Viking adventurer. He guided Oscar's forces up the Garonne to Toulouse, giving them an opportunity to scout the land for plundering. In 845 Pepin welcomed Seguin of Bordeaux who had defected from the Emperor's side. Pepin made him dux Wasconum, to help his fight against Sans II Sancion of Gascony, who had been at war with his father Pepin I.

Bordeaux, the largest city in Aquitaine and then controlled by Charles, was seized by Oscar in 847, with the aid of disaffected citizens. These were either Jews or partisans of Pepin. The loss of this city to a heathen pirate, coupled with Pepin's heavy drinking and loose living, eroded his support in the nobility until 848 he was left with no support. His younger brother, Charles then tried to claim the Aquitainian Kingdom for himself.

Pepin II's rule finally ended in 851 or 852 when he was captured by Sans II Sancion, and handed over to Charles. He was detained in the monastery of Saint Médard in Soissons. As reward Sans was awarded the status of Duke.

Louis the German, who was at war with Charles the Bald, sent his son Louis the Younger, to claim Aquitaine. He marched as far as Limoges in 855 before returning east.

Pepin escaped and recovered some of his old authority and lands in 854. The Vikings now established in the Loire Valley ravaged Poitiers, Angoulême, Périgueux, Limoges, Clermont, and Bourges while Charles the Bald was busy trying to subdue Pepin. In 864 Pepin joined the Vikings and is rumored to have turned from Christianity to worship Woden and "lived like one of them [the Vikings]".[2] He joined the Vikings in an attack on Toulouse. He was captured again later in 864, deposed by the Edict of Pistres, and imprisoned in Senlis, where he eventually died.

Pedigree

Metz, *Ansegisel of [I7630]
1. Landen, *Begga [I7631]
  1. *Pepin, II
    1. Herstal, *Chalpaide of [I7622]
      1. Martel, *Charles [I7611]
      2. De Champagne, Dreux [I7632]

Ancestors

*Pepin, II
* 635
+ 714-12-16

Metz, *Ansegisel of
* 602
+ 679

De Metz, *Arnold
* 582
+ 641

D' Aquitaine, *Bodegeisel II
* about 565
+ about 610

De Seuvia, *Oda
* about 567
+ 636

Saxony, *Clothilda Doda of Old
* 583
+ 612

Schelde, *Arnoldus of the
* 560
+ 601

Schwaben, *Oda of Swabia aus
* 562
+ 640

Landen, *Begga
* 613
+ 693

Landen, *Pepin of
* 580
+ 640-02-27

Landen, *Carloman of
* 550
+ 610

Bavaria, *Gertrude of
* 555
+ 615

Metz, *Itta of
* 592
+ 652-05-08

Metz, *Arnoald Bishop of
* 560-08-13
+ 611-08-16

Von Swabia, *Oda
* 564
+ ...

Source References

Ancestry.com: Public Member Trees [S0075]
1. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Charles Martel
2. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for King Pepin II
3. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Chalpaide of Herstal
4. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Chalpaide of Herstal
5. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Ansegisel of Metz
6. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Begga of Landen
7. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Charles Martel
8. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Chalpaide of Herstal
9. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Chalpaide of Herstal
10. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Ansegisel of Metz
11. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Charles Martel
12. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for King Pepin II
13. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Chalpaide of Herstal
14. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Chalpaide of Herstal
15. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Begga of Landen
16. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for King Pepin II
17. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Ansegisel of Metz
18. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Begga of Landen
19. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Ansegisel of Metz
20. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for King Pepin II
21. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Chalpaide of Herstal
22. - Page: Database online.
  - Source text:
    Record for Chalpaide of Herstal

Birth Name	*Pepin, II 1a
Also Known As	“The Younger”
Also Known As	Pepin II, King 1b
Also Known As	Pepin II, King 1c
Also Known As	Pepin II, King 1d
Also Known As	Pepin II, King 1e
Also Known As	of Herstal, Pepin 1f
Gramps ID	I7621
Gender	male
Age at Death	79 years, 11 months, 15 days