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| | Pippin the Younger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | (or Pepin; French, Pépin le Bref; Dutch Pepijn de Korte German, Pippin der Kleine, Pippin der Kurze, or Pippin der Jüngere) (714 – September 24, 768), often known under the mistranslation Pippin the Short or the ordinal Pippin III, was the king of the Franks from 751 to 768. |
 | | Pippin's first major act was to go to war against the Lombard king Aistulf, who had a policy of expansion into the ducatus Romanum, as a partial repayment for papal support in his quest for the crown. |
 | | Victorious, he forced the Lombard king to return property seized from the Church and confirmed the papacy in possession of Ravenna and the Pentapolis, the so-called Donation of Pepin whereby the Papal States was founded. |
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