 630 - 714 (84 years)
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| Name |
Pepin II of Austrasia d'Heristal [1] |
| Suffix |
Duke of Austrasia |
| Birth |
630 |
Heristal, Leige, Belgium  |
| Gender |
Male |
| _FSFTID |
9C3X-F7M |
| _FSLINK |
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=9C3X-F7M |
| Death |
16 Dec 714 |
Jupile On The Muse |
| Notes |
- Duke of Austrasia
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal05612
Pippin, incorrectly called "of Herstal," assumed leadership of the great nobles of Austrasia in 679 after engineering the death of King DagabertII.
He led the nobles to victory at Tertry in 687, the fall of theMerovingian. He also defeated the Frisians and the Alamanni.
http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps04/ps04_305.htm
The first of the great Carolingian Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia. Ruler
of the Franks in 687, he managed, through the Battle of Tertry in 687, to
unite Neustria and Austrasia under his own "puppet" Merovingian king.
But the power struggles in northern Gaul seriously weakened the power
of the merovingians and their mayors. The Aquitanians had their own
Duke; the "Patricius" of Provence was for all practical purposes an
independent ruler.; the aristocrats of Burgundy paid little attention to the Franks in the north.34
Pepin established himself as mayor of the palace in Austrasia after the
death of Dagobert II in 679 and defended its autonomy against Theodoric
III of Neustria and Ebroon, Theodoric's mayor of the palace. Defeated by
Ebroon in 680 at Lucofao (near Laon), Pepin gained his revenge on the
Neustrians in 687 at Tertry (near Pironne) and became sole effective
ruler of the Franks. He nevertheless retained Theodoric III on the throne
and after his death replaced him with three successive Merovingian
kings. After several years of warfare Pepin defeated the Frisians on his
northeastern border (689) and married his son Grimoald to Theodelind,
daughter of the Frisian chief Radbod. He also forced the Alemanni to
recognize Frankish authority again and encouraged Christian
missionaries in Alemannia and Bavaria.
The first of the Carolingian dynasty to hold the office of Mayor of the Palace. By the seventh century, Merovingian kings had no effective power. Instead, the Mayor of the Palace, spokesman at the king's court for the landholders in Neustria, Austrasia and Burgundy, held the real power.
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| Person ID |
I2848 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
26 Jan 2015 |
| Father |
Anchises (Ansegisel), b. 602, Austrasia, France d. 629, Andene Monastery (Age 27 years) |
| Mother |
Saint Doda (Begue ), Saint Begga, b. 613, Landen, Leige, Belgium d. 17 Dec 693, Ardenne (Age 80 years) |
| Family ID |
F781 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).
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