Pippin I Carloman King of Italy Carolingian

777 - 810  (33 years)

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• Name	Pippin I Carloman King of Italy Carolingian  [1]
  Born	777	Framkish Empire
  Gender	Male
  Name	Pepin of Italy
  Reference Number	8086
  Died	8 Jul 810	Mediolanum (Milan), Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)map
  Person ID	I8086	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor Carolingian,   b. Abt 2 Apr 748, Austrasia, Francia ,   d. 28 Jan 814, Aachen, Austrasia, Francia  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Hildegarde Schwaaben von Vinzagu,   b. Abt 758, Thionville, Moselle, France ,   d. 30 Apr 783, Thionville, Moselle, France  (Age ~ 25 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2401	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Chrothais Unknown,   b. Abt 782
  Children	+ 1. Bernhard King of Italy Carolingian,   b. Abt 797, Vermandois, Neustria ,   d. 17 Apr 818, Aachen, Frankish Empire  (Age ~ 21 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F3226	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Carolingian-85 BIOGRAPHY FROM GENEALOGICS.ORG: Pippin was born about 777, the second son of Emperor Charlemagne and his wife Hildegarde. He was born Karlmann, but when his half-brother Pippin 'der Bucklige' (the Hunchback) betrayed their father, the royal name Pippin passed to him. He was christened in Rome by Pope Adrian I on 12 April 781, and was made king of Italy after his father's conquest of the Lombards that year, after which Pippin was crowned by Pope Adrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. He was active as ruler of Italy and worked to expand the Frankish empire. In 791 he marched a Lombard army into the Drava valley and ravaged Pannonia, while his father marched along the Danube into Avar territory. Charlemagne left the campaigning to deal with a Saxon revolt in 792. Pippin and Duke Eric of Friuli 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 and distributed to all his followers and even to foreign rulers, including King Offa of Mercia. About 795 Pippin married a lady possibly called Bertha, whose ancestry is not known from any reliable source although spuriously she has been called the daughter of St. Guilhem, comte de Toulouse. Pippin and Bertha had five daughters four of whom did not have progeny. The fifth daughter, Adalhaid (Adelaide) married Lambert I of Nantes. He also had a son Bernhard who would have progeny; some sources identify him as illegitimate. A celebrated poem, _De Pippine regis Victoria Avarica,_ was composed after Pippin forced the Avar Khagan to submit in 796. The poem was composed at Verona, Pippin's capital after 799 and the centre of Carolingian Renaissance literature in Italy. The _Versus de Verona_ (written about 800), a formal eulogy to the city, likewise praises King Pippin. Pippin's activities included a long siege of Venice in 810. The siege lasted six months and Pippin's army was ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and was forced to withdraw. A few months later Pippin died on 8 July 810. He was expected to inherit a third of his father's empire, but he predeceased his father. When Pippin died the Italian crown passed to his son Bernhard, but the empire went to Pippin's younger brother Louis 'the Pious'.

  
  

• Sources

  [S807] Genealogics.org.