Pepin II de Duc de Austrasia & Brabant 
Pepin II de was born in 0635 in Heristal, Liege (Belgium).1 Pepin II de's father was Anchises (Ansegisel) Mayor of Austrasia and his mother was St. Beggue de Austrasia. His paternal grandparents were St. Arnoul 'de Heristal' Metz Bishop of Metz and Dode (Ode) de Heristal; his maternal grandparents were Pepin I the Elder of Landen Mayor of Austrasia and Iduberga (Itta) von Schelde. He had a brother named Martin. He was the older of the two children. He died in Villa de Jupille, on the Meuse River, near Leige, Belgium.1 General Notes
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Pepin of Heristol (Liege, Belgium); Mayor Of The Palace Of Austrasia.
Pepin of Herstal (635?-714), Carolingian mayor of the palace, who reunited the Frankish realms in the late Merovingian period. A grandson of Pepin the Elder, he succeeded to his position in the kingdom of Austrasia around 680. In 687 he
extended Carolingian rule to the other Frankish kingdoms, Neustria and Burgundy, but retained members of the Merovingian dynasty as figurehead monarchs in all three. Two years later he extended his control over the Frisians, a pagan people living on the North Sea coast. Pepin's death was followed by a civil war and the succession of his illegitimate son Charles Martel.
Source: 'Pepin of Herstal,' Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1993 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation 'Royalty for Commoners', Roderick W. Stuart, 1993, p 129.
"The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe, Holmes, George, Oxford University Press, 1988":
The first of the great Carolingian Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia. Ruler of the Franks in 687, he managed, through the Battle of Tertry in 687, to unite Neustria and Austrasia under his own "puppet" Merovingian king. But the power struggles in northern Gaul seriously weakened the power of the merovingians and their mayors. The Aquitanians had their own Duke; the "Patricius" of Provence was for all practical purposes an independent ruler.; the aristocrats of Burgundy paid little attention to the Franks in the north.34
"Britannica On-Line":
The son of Begga and Ansegisel, who were, respectively, the daughter of
Pepin I and the son of Bishop Arnulf of Metz, Pepin established himself as mayor of the palace in Austrasia after the death of Dagobert II in 679 and defended its autonomy against Theodoric III of Neustria and Ebroon, Theodoric's mayor of the palace. Defeated by Ebroon in 680 at Lucofao (near Laon), Pepin gained his revenge on the Neustrians in 687 at Tertry (near Pironne) and became sole effective ruler of the Franks. He nevertheless retained Theodoric III on the throne and after his death replaced him with three successive Merovingian kings. After several years of warfare Pepin defeated the Frisians on his northeastern border (689) and married his son Grimoald to Theodelind, daughter of the Frisian chief Radbod. He also forced the Alemanni to recognize Frankish authority again and encouraged Christian missionaries in Alemannia and Bavaria. Charles Martel was his son.
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- b.0500 in Vitry-en-Perthois, France d.0532
- b.~ 0532 d.> 0598
- b.~ 0562 d.0588 in Carthage, Africa
- b.13 AUG 582 in Heristal, France d.16 AUG 640 in France
- b.~ 0562 in of Austrasia
- b.0602 in Austrasia, France d.0685 in Andene Monastery
- b.0580 in Old Saxony, Germany d.0611
- b.0635 in Heristal, Liege (Belgium) d.16 DEC 714 in Villa de Jupille, on the Meuse River, near Leige, Belgium
- b.0570 d.0615
- b.BET. 580 - 585 in Landen, Austrasia, France d.0639
- b.0613 in Landen, Liege, Belgium d.BET. 694 - 698 in Ardenne, France
- b.~ 0523 d.0570
- b.~ 0540 d.0601
- b.~ 0475 d.0509
- b.0592 in Landen, Austrasia, France d.0652
- d.0640
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Details of Pepin II de's family with Elphide (Chalpaida) (de Heristal)
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Further sources/citations:
11615-2.ftw, L' Arts de Verifier Les Dates, PrenticeNet: A Lineage to Caesar, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 @ line 190, large-G675.FTW
Further sources/citations:
11615-2.ftw, L' Arts de Verifier Les Dates, PrenticeNet: A Lineage to Caesar, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 @ line 190, large-G675.FTW
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