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3 days ago · A member of the Frankish Carolingian dynasty, Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. With his brother, Carloman I, he became king of the Franks in 768 following Pepin's death and became the sole ruler three years later.
5 days ago · On the other hand, Pippin achieved a decisive victory in southern Gaul by capturing Septimania from the Muslims (752–759). He broke down Aquitaine’s resistance, and it was reincorporated into the kingdom (760–768).
3 days ago · Aquitaine remained a centre of dissension. For some time (until 864) Pippin II continued to have supporters there, and Charles the Bald attempted to pacify them by installing his sons—first Charles the Child (reigned 855–866) and then Louis II (the Stammerer; 867–877)—on the throne of Aquitaine.
3 days ago · In southern Gaul the duke Lupus changed the status of Aquitaine from a duchy to an independent principality. Austrasian hegemony and the rise of the Pippinids. The murder of Ebroïn (680 or 683) reversed the situation in favour of Austrasia and the Pippinids.
1 day ago · Bordeaux ( / bɔːrˈdoʊ / bor-DOH, French: [bɔʁdo] ⓘ; Gascon Occitan: Bordèu [buɾˈðɛw]; Basque: Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called ...
3 days ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine ( French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; [a] c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, [4] and Queen...
2 days ago · Watch on. Jacques Pépin is bustling around the kitchen of his charming Madison, Connecticut, house, gathering ingredients as he gears up to shoot videos of cooking a trio of scallop dishes. The...
