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  Title: Mayor Of The Palace
  Title (Facts Pg) Mayor Of Austrasia And Neustria
  Roots: Carloman, Mayor of the Palace, died 754. Probably married a daughter of Alard, brother of Garnier, ancestor of the Margraves of Spoleto.
  RC: Carloman, Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia. Died a monk, 754, at Monte Cassino, Monastery, Italy. Married a daughter of Alard.
  Carloman (c.710[1] – 17 August[2] 754) was the son of Charles Martel, major domo or mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks, and his wife Chrotrud. On Charles' death (741), he and his brother Pippin the Short succeeded to their father's legal positions, Pippin in Neustria and Carloman in Austrasia. He was a member of the family later called the Carolingians and it can be argued that he was instrumental in consolidating their power at the expense of the ruling Merovingian kings of the Franks. He withdrew from public life in 747 to take up the monastic habit, after becoming convinced his brother Pippin was competant to protect the realm, and that he was better suited serving God.
  
  After the death of his father, power was not initially divided to include Grifo, Charles' illegitimate son. This was per Charles' wishes, though Grifo demanded a portion of the realm from his brothers, who refused him. By 742, Carloman and Pippin had ousted Grifo and forced him into a monastery, and each turned his attention towards his own area of influence as major domo, Pippin in the West and Carloman in the East. With Grifo contained, the two mayors, who had not yet proved themselves in battle in defence of the realm as their father had, on the initiative of Carloman, installed the Merovingian Childeric III as king (743), even though Martel had left the throne vacant since the death of Theuderic IV in 737. Carloman realized that until they had established themselves as defenders of the realm and faith, as their father had, they needed the puppet king which Charles had dispensed with. Unlike most medieval instances of fraternal power sharing, Carloman and Pippin seemed at least willing to work together without plotting against each other, and some sources even suggest that the brothers genuinely liked each other: certainly, they undertook every military action as one. Carloman joined Pippin against Hunald of Aquitaine's rising in 742 and again in 745. Pippin assisted Carloman against the Saxons 742-743 and against Odilo of Bavaria in 742 and again in 744, when peace was established between the brothers and their brother-in-law, for Odilo had married their sister Hiltrude
  On 15 August 747, Carloman renounced his position as major domo and withdrew to a monastic life, being tonsured in Rome by Pope Zachary. He founded Monte Soracte and then went to Monte Cassino. All sources from the period indicate he truly believed his brother was capable of leading the kingdom by himself, and that his calling was the Church. He felt he had done his duty for the family for six years in ruthlessly eliminating its enemies, and strengthening the dynasty. Having completed what he felt were his worldly tasks, and believing "one hand on the sword holds it better than two," he withdrew to a monastery and spent the remainder of his life in meditation and prayer. At the time of Carloman's retirement, Grifo escaped his imprisonment and fled to Bavaria, where Duke Odilo provided support and assistance, but when Odilo died a year later and Grifo attempted to seize the duchy of Bavaria for himself, Pippin, who had become sole major domo and dux et princeps Francorum, took decisive action by invading Bavaria and installing Odilo's infant son, Tassilo III, as duke under Frankish suzerainty. Grifo continued his rebellion, but was eventually killed in the battle of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in 753.
  
  Carloman enters the pages of history only once more, seven years after his retirement and on the eve of his death. In 754, Pope Stephen II had begged Pippin, now king, to come to his aid against the king of the Lombards, Aistulf. Carloman visited his brother to beg him not to bring war to Italy, believing that Frankish intervention there was against the family's long term interest, but Pippin was unmoved and Carloman retired to Vienne, where he died on 17 August. He was buried in Monte Cassino.
  

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