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2 days ago · Bavaria was ruled by Duke Tassilo, Charlemagne's first cousin, who had been installed by Pepin the Short in 748. [149] Tassilo's sons were also grandsons of Desiderius, and a potential threat to Charlemagne's rule in Lombardy. [ 150 ]
2 days ago · In 751, Pope Zachary had Pepin the Short crowned king in place of the powerless Merovingian figurehead King Childeric III. Zachary's successor, Pope Stephen II, later granted Pepin the title Patrician of the Romans. Pepin led a Frankish army into Italy in 754 and 756, defeated the Lombards, thus taking control of northern Italy, and made a gift ...
5 days ago · He had the support of Charles Martel, and later of his son Carloman, and finally of Pepin the Short after Carloman had retired to a monastery. In 731, Saint Boniface was made archbishop of Germany, and some years later, he was appointed apostolic legate.
1 day ago · After expelling the Muslims from Narbonne in 759 and driving their forces back over the Pyrenees, the Carolingian king Pepin the Short conquered Aquitaine in a ruthless eight-year war.
4 days ago · Pippin the Short, who as mayor of the palace had held de facto power over Francia, or the regnum Francorum (“kingdom of the Franks”), now desired to be king. He was crowned with the support of the papacy , which, threatened by the Lombards and having problems with Byzantium, sought a protector in the West.
3 days ago · In the 740s the popes had become close to the rising Carolingian dynasty in Francia, and in 751 its head, Pippin III, was recognized as king of the Franks by Pope Zacharias (741–752). Faced with Aistulf’s attacks, Zacharias’s successor, Stephen II (752–757), went to the Franks and sought their military support.
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3 days ago · Clovis I, king of the Franks and ruler of much of Gaul from 481 to 511, a key period during the transformation of the Roman Empire into Europe. His dynasty, the Merovingian, survived more than 200 years. While he was not the first Frankish king, he was the kingdom’s political and religious founder.
