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Pippin I

Carolingian mayor
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Also known as: Pépin de Landen, Pepin le Vieux, Pippin der Ältere, Pippin of Landen, Pippin the Elder
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Also spelled:
Pepin
Byname:
Pippin of Landen or Pippin the Elder
French:
Pépin de Landen or Pépin le Vieux
German:
Pippin der Ältere
Died:
639 or 640
Also Known As:
Pippin of Landen
Pippin der Ältere
Pepin le Vieux
Pippin the Elder
Pépin de Landen
Founder:
Carolingian dynasty
Notable Family Members:
son Grimoald
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Pippin I (died 639 or 640) was a councillor of the Merovingian king Chlotar II and mayor of the palace in Austrasia, whose lands lay in the part of the Frankish kingdom that forms part of present-day Belgium. The reference to Landen dates from the 13th century.

Through the marriage of his daughter Begga with Ansegisel, son of Arnulf (d. 641; bishop of Metz), Pippin was the founder of the Carolingian dynasty. Deprived of his mayoralty at the accession (629) of Dagobert I, he regained power in Austrasia after that king’s death (January 639) but did not long survive to enjoy it.

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