Pippin of Italy

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Pippin of Italy

Pepin (April 773 – 8 July 810

810

For the area code see Area code 810...
) was the son of Charlemagne

Charlemagne

Charlemagne was List of Frankish kings from 768 to his death. He expanded the Franks kingdoms into a Carolingian Empire that incorporated much of Western Europe and Central Europe....
and king of Italy

King of Italy

King of Italy is a title adopted by many rulers of the Italian peninsula after the fall of the Roman Empire. Until 1870, however, no ?King of Italy? ruled the whole peninsula, though some pretended to such authority....
(781-810) under the authority of his father.

Pepin was the third son of Charlemagne

Charlemagne

Pepin the Hunchback

Pepin the Hunchback, was the eldest son of Charlemagne by Himiltrude.Accounts describe Pepin as normally proportioned with attractive features....
betrayed their father, the royal name Pepin passed to him. He was made king of Italy after his father's conquest of the Lombards

Lombards

The Lombards were a Germanic peoples originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the Danube and from there invaded Byzantine Italian peninsula in 568 under the leadership of Alboin....
, in 781, and crowned by Pope Hadrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy

Iron Crown of Lombardy

The Iron Crown of Lombardy is both a relic and one of the most ancient royal insignia of Europe. It is kept in the Monza Cathedral near Milan....
.

He was active as ruler of Italy and worked to expand the Frankish empire.

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Pepin (April 773 – 8 July 810

810

For the area code see Area code 810...
) was the son of Charlemagne

Charlemagne

King of Italy

Charlemagne

Pepin the Hunchback

Lombards

Iron Crown of Lombardy

Drava

Drava or Drave is a river in southern Central Europe, a tributary of the Danube. It begins in Dobbiaco, Italy, and flows east through East Tirol and Carinthia in Austria, into Slovenia , and then southeast, passing through Croatia and forming most of the border between Croatia and Hungary, before it joins the Danube near Osijek....
valley and ravaged Pannonia

Pannonia

Pannonia is an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia....
, while his father marched along the Danube

Danube

The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
into Avar

Eurasian Avars

The 'Avars' were a highly organized and powerful Turkic confederation. They were ruled by a khagan, who was surrounded by a tight-knit retinue of nomad warriors, an organization characteristic of Turkic peoples groups....
territory. Charlemagne left the campaigning to deal with a Saxon revolt

Saxon Wars

The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of the more than thirty years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Duchy of Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of disaffected Germanic peoples was crushed....
in 792. Pepin and Duke Eric of Friuli

Eric of Friuli

Eric was the Duke of Friuli from 789 to his death. He was the eldest son of Gerold of Vinzgouw and by the marriage of his sister Hildegard,_wife_of_Charlemagne the brother-in-law of Charlemagne....
continued, however, to assault the Avars' ring-shaped strongholds. The great Ring of the Avars, their capital fortress, was taken twice. The booty was sent to Charlemagne in Aachen

Aachen

is a historic spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the westernmost city of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, 65 km west of Cologne....
and redistributed to all his followers and even to foreign rulers, including King Offa of Mercia

Offa of Mercia

Offa was the King of Mercia from 757 until his death in July 796. He was the son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa of Mercia, a brother of King Penda of Mercia, who had ruled over a century before....
. A celebratory poem, De Pippine regis Victoria Avarica
De Pippine regis Victoria Avarica

De Pippine regis Victoria Avarica , also known by its incipit as Omnes gentes qui fecisti , is a medieval Latin encomium celebrating the victory of Pepin of Italy over the Eurasian Avars in the summer of 796....
, was composed after Pepin forced the Avar khagan to submit in 796. This poem was composed at Verona

Verona

Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans....
, Pepin's capital after 799 and the centre of Carolingian Renaissance

Carolingian Renaissance

The Carolingian Renaissance was a period of intellectual and cultural revival occurring in the late Eighth century and Ninth century centuries, with the peak of the activities occurring during the reigns of the Carolingian rulers Charlemagne and Louis the Pious....
literature in Italy. The Versus de Verona
Versus de Verona

The Versus de Verona, also Carmen Pipinianum or Rhythmus Pipinianus , formed a medieval Latin poetic encomium on the city of Verona, composed during the Carolingian Renaissance, between 795 and 806....
(c.800), an urban encomium of the city, likewise praises king Pepin.

His activities included a long, but unsuccessful siege of Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
in 810. The siege lasted six months and Pepin's army was ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and was forced to withdraw. A few months later Pepin died.

He married Bertha, daughter of William of Gellone

William of Gellone

Saint William of Gellone was the second Count of Toulouse from 790 until his replacement in 811. His Occitan name is Guilhem, and he is known in French language as Guillaume d'Orange, Guillaume Fierabrace, and the Marquis au court nez....
, count of Toulouse, and had five daughters with her (Adelaide, married Lambert I of Nantes

Lambert I of Nantes

Lambert I was the Count of Nantes and Prefect of the Breton March between 818 to 831 and Duke of Spoleto between 834 and 836. Lambert succeeded his father Guy of Nantes....
; Atala; Gundrada; Bertha; and Tetrada), all of whom but the eldest were born between 800 and Pepin's death and died before their grandfather's death in 814. Pepin also had an illegitimate son Bernard

Bernard of Italy

Bernard was the King of Italy from 810 to 818. He plotted against his uncle, Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Pious, when the latter's Ordinatio Imperii made Bernard a vassal of his cousin Lothair I....
. Pepin was expected to inherit a third of his father's empire, but he predeceased him. The Italian crown passed on to his son Bernard, but the empire went to Pepin's younger brother 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....
.