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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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