General Notes

Name Prefix:<NPFX> King Of Franks
aka Peppin "The Short"
He was the Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia.
The place of his death might be St Denis, Paris, France.
Pepin deposed Childeric and thus became the first king of t
he Carolingian
dynasty.
He dethroned the last Merovingian king and assumed the roya
l title
himself.
Note:
754 consecrated King at St. Denis by Winfred (St. Boniface
, b. ca. 675 in
Devonshire, England, a monk who was commissioned by the pop
e to work in
Germany, murdered in 754 by pagans, called the Apostle to t
he Germans)
Note:
crowned again this time by Pope Stephen II (III), the pop
e approving the
former consecration by Winfred, wherein the church acknowle
dged his
royal title and which Pippin rewarded by establishing the t
emporal power
of the papacy).
Broke the power of the Ravenna and the Pentapolis to the Ho
ly See, the
origin of the temporal power of the Popes
12 year old Charlemagne and his younger brother Carloman we
re also
anointed.
5 Event: Milit-Beg BET 0745 AND 0755 Donation of Pepin (Pap
al States) Note:
754-755 When the pope was threatened by the Lombards of nor
thern Italy,
Pepin led an army that defeated them. He ceded to the pop
e territory that
included Ravenna and other cities.
This grant, called the Donation of Pepin, laid the foundati
on for the
Papal States. Pepin enlarged his own kingdom by capturing A
quitaine, or
Aquitania.
Event: Milit-Beg 0757 overcame the Saxons
Event: Milit-Beg 0759 took Marbonne from the Saracens
Event: Milit-Beg BET 0760 AND 0768 war with Guifar, Duke o
f Aquitainia
Note: waged a stubborn war with Guifar, Duke of Aquitainia
Pepin's main military efforts went into the conquest of Aqu
itaine.
Charlemagne accompanied his father.
Event: Milit-Beg 0754 Note: invaded Italy to protect the po
pe against the Lombards.
(Research):(Pepin III), c.714-768, first Carolingian king o
f the Franks (751-68), son of Charles Martel and father o
f Charlemagne . Succeeding his father as mayor of the palac
e (741), he ruled Neustria, Burgundy, and Provence, while h
is brother Carloman (d. 754) received Austrasia and what ca
me to be Thuringia. In 743 the brothers chose Childeric III
, a Merovingian, as nominal king of all the Franks. With th
eir help St. Boniface effected far-reaching reforms that st
rengthened the Frankish church and advanced the conversio
n of the Saxons. After Carloman had retired (747) to religi
ous life, Pepin, with the consent of the pope, St. Zacharia
s, forced Childeric into a monastery and had himself procla
imed king (751). In return for recognition by the pope, Pep
in defended Rome against the Lombards (754, 756), from who
m he wrested the exarchate of Ravenna and other cities. The
se he ceded to the pope, thus laying the foundation of th
e Papal States . Pepin also extended his territories and su
bdued Aquitaine . 
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The Franks   
Related: French History
group of Germanic tribes. By the 3d cent. AD, they were set
tled along the lower and middle Rhine. The two major divisi
ons were the Salian Franks in the north and the Ripuarian F
ranks in the south. The two groups expanded independently
, although they sometimes united against a common enemy. Th
e Salian Franks became allies of the Roman Empire late in t
he 4th cent. In the following century they moved southwar
d into Gaul, and under their leader Clovis I they overthre
w (486) the Romans. Clovis permanently united the Salian an
d Ripuarian Franks, accepted Roman Catholicism, and founde
d the Frankish empire. By the conquest of the First Kingdo
m of Burgundy , of Bavaria , of the territories of the Alem
anni , the Thuringians, and the Saxons, and of the kingdo
m of the Lombards , the Frankish empire grew (6th-9th cent.
) to include most of France, the Low Countries, Germany W o
f the Elbe, Austria, Switzerland, and N and central Italy
. Under its first dynasty,