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Pepin the Short - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | PEPIN THE SHORT [Pepin the Short] (Pepin III), c.714-768, first Carolingian king of the Franks (751-68), son of Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne. |
| | After Carloman had retired (747) to religious life, Pepin, with the consent of the pope, St. Zacharias, forced Childeric into a monastery and had himself proclaimed king (751). |
| | In return for recognition by the pope, Pepin defended Rome against the Lombards (754, 756), from whom he wrested the exarchate of Ravenna and other cities. |
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