PersonAD 714 – AD 768
Pepin the Short
Also called: Pepin III, Pippin the Short
Son of Charles Martel and first Carolingian king of the Franks, who gave lands taken from the Lombards to the pope (the Donation of Pepin)
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Pepin, who founded the Carolingian dynasty in 751 with papal backing, gave the pope the lands around Ravenna taken from the Lombards in 756, laying the foundation of the Papal States.
People who appear alongside
- Charles MartelAD 688 – AD 741
Mayor of the palace of the Frankish kingdom who defeated the Muslim army at Tours–Poitiers in 732; his authority paved the way for his son Pepin to found the Carolingian dynasty
Themes this person appears in
- Medieval Europe and ByzantiumAD 476 – 1077
From the fall of Rome in the West to Canossa — the feudal West built by the Franks and the papacy, Byzantium as heir of Rome, and a church divided east and west