King Pepin OF FRANKS "The Short" ¹

  General Notes:

When Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, died in 768, his kingdom was divided between his two sons, Charles and Carloman. Charles, the elder, who was twenty-five, took Austrasia and Neustria--roughly the country from Brittany to beyond the Rhine, together with the lands lying between the Loire and the Garonne. Burgundy, Provence, Alsace, Alemannia, and the south-eastern part of Aquitaine fell to Carloman. Thus the Frankish realm, which comprised a heterogeneous collection of states and nations, was partitioned according to custom, and in such a way that the territory of Charles half surrounded that of his younger brother.

Pepin married Bertha. (Bertha died in 783.)