Généalogie and Heritage - PEPIN 'der Kurze' König der Franken

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Autres noms

Autres noms	Nom
Nom de scène	pepin
Nom de scène	the Short King of France
Nom de scène	Pepin III King of Franks
Nom de scène	Pépin Le Bref
Nom de naissance	Pepin "The Short" III Of All Franks

Parents

Père	Date de naissance	Mère	Date de naissance
KARL 'Martel ' Herzog und Prinz der Franken	26/08/688	CHROTHRUDIS	about 0690

Conjoints

Conjoint	Date de naissance	Enfants
Leutberga	Abt 714	Five Children None Recorded
BERTRADA de Laon Königin der Franken (Laon, die Jungere Konigin der Franken)	May 0726	KARL I (CHARLEMAGNE) Fränkisches Reich Charles the Great CG02 CG04 Karlmann I König der Franken Chrothias Pepin Adelais Gisela Äbtissin der Abtei Chelles (Aavhen)

Événements personnels

Type d’événement	Date	Lieu	Description
Naissance	0714	Reich, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Mariage	about 0745
Profession	from 0741 to 0751	Austrasia	Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
Profession			Mayor of Neustria
Décès	24/09/768	France
Inhumation	28/09/768	Saint-Denis, Gard, France

Caractéristiques

Caractéristique	Description
Origine ethnique	Germanic
Numéro national d'identification	2403

Notes


Although Bertrada "married" Pepin in 741 and gave birth to their first child, Charlemagne, in 743, Pepin was already married at the time, to a woman named Leutberga, who was the mother of Pepin's five children. After 743, however, Leutberga either decidedto retire to a convent or was forced to do so. Even so, the marriage of Pepin and Bertrada was still not recognized--they were too closely related in order for their marriage to be legal. But for whatever reasons, the obstacle disappeared after 749, and Bertrada was recognized as Pepin's wife--although, as Nelson notes, political difficulties in 751 and 752 "may have driven [Pepin] briefly . . . to consider repudiating his wife Bertrada and marrying again." The two, Pepin and Bertrada, were consecrated as king and queen of the Franks in 754, after which Pepin was "a model husband." Unlike his famous son, he had no concubines and no illegitimate children. Pepin and Bertrada worked together to strengthen theirnew dynasty--"encouraging" Pepin's brother and nephews to pursue monastic, rather than secular, vocations, and consolidating the claims of their own sons, in particular that of their oldest son, Charlemagne. (Some sources indicate that Pepin and Leutberga's children were all sent off to monasteries.) After the death of Pepin in 768, his Frankish kingdom was divided between Charlemagne and his younger brother, Carloman, but Bertrada supported Charlemagne in opposing this division. The conflict between Charlemagne and his brother ended in 771, with Carloman's death. In the mean time, Charlemagne had "married" the Frankish noblewoman Himiltrude, probably before Pepin's death, and she gave birth to a son, also named Pepin, after his grandfather. The quotation marks I put around "married" when I describe Himiltrude's relationship with Charlemagne reflect some degree of uncertainty about their bond.
Pepin was not actually short; unlike peasants, aristocrats got enough food and were noticeably taller than most people. Moreover, northern Europeans were among the largest people in the world. Pepin is near-universally called ‘the Short’ in the Anglosphere due to a mistranslation of the French, “Pippin le Bref,” better translated as “Pepin the Brief.” Pepin ruled as King of the Franks for 17 years, which is hardly brief, but historians consistently measure Pepin against his father and son. Charles Martel ruled Francia as Duke and Princeps for 23 years, and his son Charlemagne ruled as king and later emperor for 46 years.
While Leutberga was married to Pepin he began an affair with Bertrada, daughter of the powerful Count Charibert of Laon, in what is today Aisne, France. Notably, her family founded and controlled the Prüm Abbey. It is possible that Pepin met Bertrada through work done with the abbey; we can’t be sure but there’s something delightfully devilish about an affair taking place in a Benedictine monastery. Pepin wanted to dismiss his first wife for her, which in and of itself would have been a scandal but to make matters worse, Bertrada was his second cousin. On 22 October 741 Charles Martel died, giving Pepin the chance to pursue his love…or lust, sometimes its hard to tell the two apart. Pepin dismissed Leutberga and sent their five children to a convent. The new Mayor of the Palace of Neustria had ceased loving her, if he ever did. Moreover, he needed to consolidate his power within Francia and so he married Bertrada while he was still married to Leutberga.
Pepin decided that if he were to become real king he had to change the nature of kingship itself. At that time kingship in Francia was based upon descent from Merovech, whose family, the Merovingians, had led their people for hundreds of years. Pepin was not a Merovingian, nor was he so powerful that he could rule through pure force. Pepin had to unite the nobles of Francia under some new paradigm they could agree to, and one which the Merovingians had no claim to. Pepin chose religion as the force that would enshrine his dynasty and unify the realm. Religion was the tool that Pepin and his father had used to administer Francia for decades and in the chaos of his youth devotion to Catholicism was the only commonality among the Franks and their vassals. In751 at Soissons the Mayor of the Palace inaugurated a whole new basis for rule: instead of sovereignty coming from noble privilege, Pepin claimed that God had chosen him as ruler.

Sources

Description	Qualité	Information	Preuve
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Britannica -Pippin III	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Find a Grave: Pepin “The Short” of the Franks	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
New World Encyclopedia -Pepin the Short	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Pepin the Short	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Pepin the Short	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Royal Ancestry Bible - Emperor Charlemagne ancestral lineage	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Royal Index, University of Hull	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Wikipedia - Pepin the Short	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Wikipedia (German) Pippin der Jüngere deutsch	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Wikipedia (Portuguese)	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Wikiwand -Holy Roman Empire	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Wikiwand: Carolingian Dynasty	Originale	Seconde main	Directe
Wikiwand: Pepin the Short	Originale	Seconde main	Directe

Médias

Photos

Saint Denis Basilique

King Charles & Bertrada The Younger DeLaon

Coration in 752 Pepin the Short by Boniface Archbish of Mainz

A statue of Pepin the Short in Würzburg.

Signature of Pepin the Short.

Coronation in 751 of Pepin the Short by Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz.

Pepin showing his skill. From Wikiwand.

Catholic parish & monastery church of St. Alto & St. Birgitta in Altomünster in the district of Dachau (Bavaria), dome fresco (1728-1769).

Pepin the Short, miniature, Imperial Chronicle (Anonymi chronica imperatorum), Corpus Christi College, fol. 14. circa 1112-circa 1114.

Denier of Pepin the short (reigned 752-768). Minted at Quentovic between c. 754-768.

Pepin the Younger, King of France. Date: 1603. Author: Adrian Barlandus.

The donation of Pepin the Short to Pope Stephen II (or treaty of Quierzy), in 754, creates the Papal States.

Catholic parish & monastery church of St. Alto & St. Birgitta in Altomünster in the district of Dachau (Bavaria), dome fresco (1728-1769).

The august representations of all the kings of France, from Pharamond to Louis XIV. Author: Nicolas de Larmessin (1632–1694). Date: 1690.

URL

Pepin the Short - Wikipedia

Histoire

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