Individual Details
(Apr 773 - 8 Jul 810)
He was born Carloman, but when his half-brother Pepin the Hunchback betrayed their father, the royal name Pepin passed to him. He was made "king of Italy" after his father's conquest of the Lombards, in 781, and crowned by Pope Hadrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. He was active as ruler of Lombardy and worked to expand the Frankish empire. In 791, he marched a Lombard army into the Drava valley and ravaged Pannonia, while his father marched along the Danube into Avar territory.
Events
| Birth | Apr 773 | Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia | | | |
| Christen | 12 Apr 781 | Rome, Italy | | | |
| Death | 8 Jul 810 | Milan, Italy | | | |
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