 Abt 635 - 714 (79 years) Has 14 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Pepin Pippinids |
| Suffix |
Mayor of the Palace |
| Birth |
Abt 635 |
Herstal, Liège, België  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
16 Dec 714 |
Meuse, Lorraine, République française |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
12 Oct 1933 |
| FamilySearch ID |
LDSS-4ZY |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I12101 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Ansegisel, b. Abt 605, Metz, Austrasia d. Bef 679, Andene Monastery, Austrasia (Age < 73 years) |
| Mother |
Begga, b. 615, Landen, Austrasia d. 17 Dec 693 (Age 78 years) |
| Marriage |
Bef 639 |
| Family ID |
F6411 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Plectrude, b. Abt 652, Herstal, Liège, België d. Abt 717 (Age 65 years) |
| Marriage |
670 |
België |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F6410 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
| Family 2 |
Alpaide, b. Abt 654, Herstal, Liège, België d. Brabant, België |
| Marriage |
Abt 675 |
| Children |
| + | 1. Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace, b. 676, Herstal, Liège, België d. 22 Oct 741, Quierzy, Aisne, Picardie, République française (Age 65 years) |
| > | 2. Childebrand, b. Abt 678, Herstal, Liège, België d. 751, Herstal, Liège, België (Age 73 years) |
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| Family ID |
F5210 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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| Notes |
- Pepin II (c. 635 – 16 December 714), commonly known as Pepin of Hersta l , was a Frankish statesman and military leader who de facto ruled Franc i a as the Mayor of the Palace from 680 until his death. He took the tit l e Duke and Prince of the Franks upon his conquest of all the Frankish r ea lms.
The son of the powerful Frankish statesman Ansegisel, Pepin worked to es t ablish his family, the Pippinids, as the strongest in Francia. He beca m e Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia in 680. Pepin subsequently embarke d o n several wars to expand his power. He united all the Frankish realm s b y the conquests of Neustria and Burgundy in 687. In foreign conflicts , Pe pin increased the power of the Franks by his subjugation of the Alem anni , the Frisians, and the Franconians. He also began the process of ev angel isation in Germany.
Pepin's statesmanship was notable for the further diminution of Meroving i an royal authority, and for the acceptance of the undisputed right to r ul e for his family. Therefore, Pepin was able to name as heir his grands o n Theudoald. But this was not accepted by his powerful son Charles Mart el , leading to a civil war after his death in which the latter emerged v ict orious.
Pepin, sometimes called Pepin II and Pepin the Middle, was the grandso n a nd namesake of Pepin I the Elder through the marriage of Pepin I's da ught er Begga to Ansegisel.[1] He was also the grandfather of Pepin the S hor t and great-grandfather of Charlemagne. That marriage united the tw o hous es of the Pippinids and the Arnulfings which created what would b e calle d the Carolingian dynasty. Pepin II was probably born in Hersta l (Hérista l), modern Belgium (where his centre of power lay), whence hi s byname (so metimes "of Heristal").
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