Pepin Of Herstal

Pepin II of Herstal, "says Pepin the Fat or Pepin the Younger ^Biography

He was cited for the first time to 675 as Duke of Austrasia and with Martin, dux of Champagne, fighting against Ebroin , mayor of the palace of Neustria , but they were defeated in 679 in Laon and Duke Martin killed. Ebroin was assassinated in 681 by a French nobleman, Ermenfroi, who took refuge in the court of Austrasia. After a period of uneasy peace with the mayor of the palace Neustrian Waratton , the war resumed in 687, and Pepin, the mayor after defeating Berthar to Tertry takes control of all the Frankish kingdom from 690. Leaving aside the Aquitaine, he then submits the lords of Saxony, Frisia, Bavaria and Alemannia . The authority of Pepin was not easily accepted. Neustria resented the domination of Duke Austrasian (appointed his son Pepin the Younger Grimoald mayor of the palace in Neustria); submission of Burgundy and Aquitaine was only nominal in the South and West local governors had taken advantage of civil wars for, to extend their independence.

Moreover, he left his wife Plectrude for his mistress Alpade and supporters of each woman divided court. This union is behind the murder of Lambert , bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht , the future St. Lambert, Liege boss. In September of any year on which historians can not agree, 696 or 705, Pepin II invites the bishop in his palace Jupille, near Lige, in order to ask him to join the to Alpade. Pepin came to repudiate Plectrude but the bishop had heard that a child was born out of wedlock. He refused to marry them. A few days later, on Sept. 17, Lambert and his nephews, Peter and Andolet are murdered by Dodon Alpade brother in retaliation for his refusal.

The characteristic of the government of Pepin of Herstal was the restoration of annual, located on the Champs de Mars. It dealt mainly with military issues.

Pepin of Herstal died on 16 December 714 and his succession is disputed between his grand-son Theodebald , supported by his grandmother Plectrude, and his son Charles , son of Alpade. Charles finally prevailed and is the founder of the dynasty Carolingian.

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Bibliography

• Christian Settipani , The Prehistory of the Capetian ( New genealogical history of the royal house of France , vol. 1), ed. Patrick van Kerrebrouck, 1993 ( ISBN 2-9501509-3-4 ), p. 153-161
• Pierre Riche , The Carolingians, a family who made the Europe , Hachette, coll. "Plural", Paris, 1983 (reprint 1997), 490 p. ( ISBN 2-01-278851-3 )
• Jean-Charles Volkmann Know the genealogies of the kings of France, Gisserot Publishing, 1999 ( ISBN 2-877472086 )
• Michel Mourre , Little Mourre. Dictionary of World History, Editions Bordas, April 2007 ( ISBN 978-2-04-732194-2 )

References

• Portal of the High Middle Ages
• Portal de Lige

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