General Notes

1  NAME Pepin /le Bref/
2  SOUR S12573
3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: Jan 8, 2001
1  NAME /Pepin/ III
1  BIRT
2  DATE 715
1  DEAT
2  DATE 768
2  SOUR S12573
3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: Jan 8, 2001


The Short

Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia 741-751
King of the Franks 751-7 68
When his father Charles Martel died in 741, Pepin III and his brother Carl oman succeeded as joing Mayors of the Palace of Austrasia. In 746, Carloman abd icated and became a monk, leaving Pepin to rule all of Austrasia on his own. In 750, Pepin received papal permission from Pope Zachary to take the Frankish cr own from King Childeric III. In 751, Zachary formerly deposed Childeric, and Pe pin became the first Caroliginian king of the Franks. In 753, Pope Stephen went to Gaul to affirm Pepin's crown. In 755, on Stephen's wishes, Pepin attacked t he Lombards of Italy who were harrasing the Roman See, and peace was made. The next year, the Lombard king again marauded near Rome, was again defeated, and a gain made peace with Pepin. That year, Pepin promised the Church Frankish prote ction, thus breaking ties with the Eastern Empire that were only needed for Ita lian safety. In 760, Pepin and Duke Waifar of independent Aquitaine started a w ar which lasted many years. In 764, both sides were tired, and the war took a o ne year break. Pepin launched a final campaign against Aquitaine in 766 with fu ll force, Aquitaine was defeated, and Waifar and his family were executed. By 7 68, the year Pepin died, Aquitaine had been completely conquered.