Pepin III "The Short" King of Franks 
Pepin III "The Short" King of was born in 0714 in Austrasia, France. Pepin III "The Short" King of's father was Charles Martel , Mayor of The Palace of Austrasia and his mother was Rotrou of Treves. His paternal grandparents were Pepin II Mayor of The Palace of Austrasia and Alpaide of Aupois Concubine; his maternal grandfather was Leutwinus Bishop of Treves , St Lievin. He had two brothers and a sister, named Carloman I King of The, Bernard Duke of and Auda (Aldane). He was the oldest of the four children. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Landrade and Miss. He died at the age of 54 on September 24th, 0768 in St Denis, Paris, Seine, France.General Notes
Pepin III, King des Francs (Andre Roux: Scrolls, 191.)
(Rosamond, Frankish kingdom under Carolingians.)
(Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, Page 129, Line 171-42.)
(Andre Castelot, Histoire de La France, Tome 1, Pages 269 - 283, 369). Also Known As: Pepin "Le Bref".
Born: in 714 in Austrasia, son of Charles Martel and Rotrude=Chrotrud, Duchesse d'Austrasie ). Married circa 740: Berthe=Bertrada de Laon, daughter of Charibert, Count de Laon and Bertrade N? ;
Berthe was for may years, at least since 740, the concubine of Pepin III. In 749 she convinced him to marry her. Note - between 742 and 753: Pepin III was baptized by the then future Saint Willibrod, famous apostle of Frisia and was brought up at the Monastery of Saint-Denis. He would protect the bishops.
Upon the death of his father, Charles Martel in Quierzy-sur-Oise on 22 October 741, Pepin III received Neustria, Burgundy and the Provence. The next year, Pepin "Le Bref", whose surname was derived in the 9th. century because of his size, joined his older brother, Carloman in military operations in Aquitaine. They ravaged the region of Bourges and set fire to the Castle of Loches. By Autumn, they had pushed beyond the Rhine, defeated Duke Odilon of Bavaria and forcing the Allemanians to submit. In the year 743, they re-establish a Merovingian King by taking Childeric III from an abbey, purportedly one of the sons of Childeric II. In 744, Hunaud, son of Eudes, Duke of Aquitaine, undertakes his campaign in Allemania, crosses the Loire and destroys Chartres, burning its cathedral. The next year, he was forced by Carloman and Pepin III to retire at the Monastery of the Ile de Re. Hunaud's son Waifre succeeds him. Pepin decides to free Grifon, his half-brother, and to thank him, Grifon joins a rebellion against Pepin, refusing Pepin's offer of a dozen Neustrian countships. In 749, Pepin III forces the Allemanians in rebellion to submit as well as the Bavarians. Grifon escapes but dies that year on his way to seek the help Waifre, Duke of Aquitaine, near Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. The Merovingian dynasty comes to an end in November of 751 when Pepin III receives the Holy Oil from Boniface, Bishop of Soissons, thus becoming King. His wife becomes Queen of the Francs the same day. Childeric III and his son Thierry both are shaven and they are sent to the Monastery of Saint-Berton, near Arras.
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- b.~ 0565 in Aquitaine, France d.~ 0610 in Carthage, Africa (Murdered returning from Constantinople)
- b.13 Aug 0582 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.18 Jul 0640 in Remiremont, France
- b.~ 0567 in Swabia, Germany d.0636
- b.0602 in Ansgise, Rhine-Westphalia, Austrasia, France d.0685 in Murdered at Andene Monastery, Siegburg, France
- b.~ 0540 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France d.0601 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- b.~ 0583 in Old Saxony, Germany d.0650 in Treves, Rhenish Prussia, Germany
- b.~ 0550 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.0610 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- b.0635 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.16 Dec 0714 in Junille, Meuse, France
- b.0570 in Landen, Liege, Belgium d.0645 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium
- b.~ 0591 in Landen, Liege, Belgium d.0694 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium
- b.0613 in Landen, Liege, Belgium d.0694 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium
- b.~ 0540 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France d.0601 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- b.0587 in Landen, Liege, Belgium d.0652 in Landen, Liege, Belgium
- b.~ 0550 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.0610 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- b.0689 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.22 Oct 0741 in Quierzy-sur-Oise, Aisne, France
- b.0654 in Aipois (Chalpaida), Austrasia d.> 0689 in Orplegrandmonast, Brabant, Vosges, France
- b.0714 in Austrasia, France d.24 Sep 0768 in St Denis, Paris, Seine, France
- b.~ 0574 in Poitiers, Bourgogne, France
- b.0590 in Poitiers, Bourgogne, France
- b.0620 in Moselle River Valley, Austrasia, France d.0677 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.~ 0560 in Alsace-Lorraine, France
- b.0595 in Moselle River Valley, Austrasia, France
- b.0564 in Franconia, Germany
- b.~ 0665 in Moselle River Valley, Austrasia, France d.0713 in France
- b.13 Aug 0582 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.18 Jul 0640 in Remiremont, France
- b.~ 0607 in Austrasia, France d.0690 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France (Austrasia)
- b.~ 0583 in Old Saxony, Germany d.0650 in Treves, Rhenish Prussia, Germany
- b.0625 in Treves, Rhenish Prussia, Germany d.> 0665 in France
- b.~ 0690 in Austrasia, France d.0724
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