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of Pepin I of Aquitaine (817–838). The inscription reads Pippinus rex.]] Pepin I (797 – December 13, 838
838

Events...
) was King of Aquitaine. He was the second son of Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor

Image:HRR 14Jh.jpgThe Roman of the Emperor's title was a reflection of the translatio imperii principle that regarded the Holy Roman Emperors as the inheritors of the title of Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, a title left unclaimed in the West after the death of Julius Nepos in 480....
 Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious

Louis the Pious , also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781 and Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks with his father, Charlemagne, from 813....
 and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye
Ermengarde of Hesbaye

Ermengarde of Hesbaye, or Irmengarde was Queen of the Franks and Holy Roman Empress as the wife of Louis the Pious. She was Franks, the daughter of Ingerman of Hesbaye, count of Hesbaye, and Hedwig of Bavaria....
.

When his father assigned to each of his sons a kingdom (within the Empire
Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
) in August 817, he received Aquitaine, which had been Louis's own subkingdom during his father Charlemagne's reign.






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of Pepin I of Aquitaine (817–838). The inscription reads Pippinus rex.]] Pepin I (797 – December 13, 838
838

Events...
) was King of Aquitaine. He was the second son of Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor

Image:HRR 14Jh.jpgThe Roman of the Emperor's title was a reflection of the translatio imperii principle that regarded the Holy Roman Emperors as the inheritors of the title of Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, a title left unclaimed in the West after the death of Julius Nepos in 480....
 Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious

Louis the Pious , also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781 and Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks with his father, Charlemagne, from 813....
 and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye
Ermengarde of Hesbaye

Ermengarde of Hesbaye, or Irmengarde was Queen of the Franks and Holy Roman Empress as the wife of Louis the Pious. She was Franks, the daughter of Ingerman of Hesbaye, count of Hesbaye, and Hedwig of Bavaria....
.

When his father assigned to each of his sons a kingdom (within the Empire
Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
) in August 817, he received Aquitaine, which had been Louis's own subkingdom during his father Charlemagne's reign. Ermoldus Nigellus
Ermoldus Nigellus

Ermoldus Nigellus or Niger, translated Ermold the Black, also Ermoald, was a monk of Aquitaine, who accompanied Pippin I of Aquitaine, son of the Louis the Pious, on a campaign into Brittany in 824....
 was his court poet and accompanied him on a campaign into Brittany
Brittany

Brittany is a former independent Celtic nations monarchy and duchy, now incorporated into France. It is also, more generally, the name of the cultural area whose limits correspond to the historic province and independent duchy....
 in 824.

Pepin rebelled in 830 at the insistence of his brother Lothair's advisor Wala
Wala of Corbie

Wala of Corbie was the son of Bernard, son of Charles Martel, son of Charles Martel, and one of the principal advisers of his cousin Charlemagne, Charlemagne's son Louis the Pious, and his son Lothair I....
. He took an army of Gascons with him and marched all the way to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, with the support of the Neustria
Neustria

The territory of Neustria or Neustrasia, meaning "new [western] land", originated in 511, made up of the regions from Aquitaine to the English Channel, approximating most of the north of present-day France, with Paris and Soissons as its main cities....
ns. His father marched back from a campaign in Brittany
Brittany

Brittany is a former independent Celtic nations monarchy and duchy, now incorporated into France. It is also, more generally, the name of the cultural area whose limits correspond to the historic province and independent duchy....
 all the way to Compiègne
Compiègne

Compi?gne is a Communes of France in the Oise Departments of France in northern France.The city is located along the Oise River. Its inhabitants are called Compi?gnois....
, where Pepin surrounded and captured him. The rebellion, however, broke up.

In 832, Pepin rebelled again and his brother Louis the German
Louis the German

Louis the German , was a grandson of Charlemagne and the third son of the succeeding Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye....
 soon followed. Louis the Pious was in Aquitaine to subdue any revolt, but the younger Louis' Bavaria
Bavaria

Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
n insurrection drew him off. Pepin took Limoges
Limoges

Limoges is a city and Communes of France in France, the Prefectures in France of the Haute-Vienne Departments of France, and the administrative capital of the Limousin Regions of France....
 and other Imperial territories. The next year, Lothair joined the rebellion and, with the assistance of Ebbo, archbishop of Rheims, they deposed their father in 833. Lothair's later behaviour alienated him and he was on his father's side when Louis the Pious was reinstated on 1 March 834
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. Pepin was restored to his former status.

Pepin died scarcely four years later and was buried in Sainte-Croix in Poitiers
Poitiers

Poitiers is a city on the Clain in west central France. It is a commune in France and the capital of the Vienne d?partement in France and of the Poitou-Charentes r?gion in France....
. Louis the Pious named Charles, his son by a second wife, king. The Aquitainians, however, elected Pepin's son, Pepin II
Pepin II of Aquitaine

File:Pepin_II_d_Aquitaine_obole_845_to_848.jpgPepin II, called the Younger , was King of Aquitaine from 838 as the successor upon the death of his father, Pepin I of Aquitaine....
.

In 822, he married Ingeltrude, daughter of Theodobert, count of Madrie, with whom he had two sons: Pepin
Pepin II of Aquitaine

File:Pepin_II_d_Aquitaine_obole_845_to_848.jpgPepin II, called the Younger , was King of Aquitaine from 838 as the successor upon the death of his father, Pepin I of Aquitaine....
 (823-after 864), his successor in Aquitaine, and Charles (b.825-830, d.4 June 863), who became archbishop of Mainz and briefly claimed the kingdom. Both died childless.

Sources

  • Collins, Roger. "Pippin I and the Kingdom of Aquitaine." Charlemagne's Heir: New Perspectives on the Reign of Louis the Pious, edd. P. Godman and Roger Collins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Reprinted in Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain. Variorum, 1992. ISBN 0 86078 308 1.