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  Pippin III
Pippin III (714 - 768) more often known as Pippin the Short (French, Pépin le Bref; German, Pippin der Kleine), was King of the Franks from 751 - 768.
Pippin's first major act was to go to war against the Lombards as a partial repayment for papal support in his quest for the crown.
Pippin III died at Saint Denis on September 24, 768 and is interred there in the Abbey Basilica with his wife Bertrada (720 - July 12, 783).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Pepin_III.html   (420 words)

  
 Pippin the Younger - Simple English Wikipedia
Pippin the Younger (614 - September 24, 768) was King of the Franks from 751 to 768.
Pippin was the son of Charles Martel and Chrotrud (690 - 720), and was born in Jupille, Belgium.
Pippin died at Saint Denis and is burried in the basilica with his wife, Bertrada of Laon.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pippin_the_Younger   (136 words)

  
 Pippin the Younger - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pippin the Younger (or Pepin; French, Pépin le Bref; 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 then went to ask Pope Zacharias who should be complete ruler; the person with the title of king, or the person who makes the decisions of king.
Pippin's first major act was to go to war against the Lombard king Aistulf as a partial repayment for papal support in his quest for the crown.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Peppin_III   (655 words)

  
 :: ernil pheriannath//info/family-analysis ::
pippin is peregrin I of the infamous took family of the shire.
bilbo was the cousin of adalgrim, pippin's grandfather.
aldagrim took (again, pippin's grandfather) and drogo baggins were second cousins (rosa baggins, hildigrim took's [pippin's great grandfather's] wife, was the cousin of drogo's father, fosco baggins, see rotk appendix, baggins family tree) this would make, paladin (pippin's father) and frodo third cousins.
www.somethingtookish.org /pippin/familyanalysis.html   (553 words)

  
 Pippin the Younger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the death of Pippin's father, Charles Martel, in 741, power was passed down to Charles' legitimate sons, Pippin and Carloman as mayors of the palaces of Neustria and Austrasia respectively.
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.
Pippin died at Saint Denis in 768 and is interred there in the basilica with his wife Bertrada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pippin_the_Younger   (1161 words)

  
 Peregrin Took   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pippin was able to remain alert despite the hardship of the forced march.
Pippin answered, "A Hobbit," and thus his act of mischief had an unexpected beneficial effect: Sauron thought that the Ring-bearer was in Isengard, and he concentrated his attention in the West as Frodo moved East toward Mordor.
Pippin was shaken by his experience, and Gandalf took him up on Shadowfax and rode with him to Minas Tirith.
www.tuckborough.net /pippin.html   (2735 words)

  
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Merry and Pippin belong to The Tolkien, and not to me, which is just as well because they never would have gotten out of bed if they were mine, much less traveled with the Fellowship, and the only Crack of Doom they would have known about might belong to the Shire Roto-Rooter Hobbit.
Pippin dropped Merry's hand and out of the corner of his eye, Merry saw him raise his own to his mouth, his small pink tongue wetting the tip of his littlest finger before Pip artfully smudged a few lines on the paper into shadow.
Pippin was a great deal better at drawing than him, Merry had to admit, turning his own nearly shapeless form into a fair portrait of the millhouse and once he might have been somewhat perturbed that Pippin had bested him.
www.libraryofmoria.com /merrypippin/thesweeetpurityofapples.txt   (1176 words)

  
 Pepin
Pippin the Younger (714-September 24, 768) often known under the mistranslation Pippin the Short, was a King of the Franks (751-768).
On the death of Pippin's father, Charles Martel, in 741, power was passed down to Charles' legimitate sons, Pippin and Carloman.
Pippin then went to ask the Pope who should be complete ruler; the person with the title of king, or the person who makes the decisions of king.
www.themiddleages.net /people/pepin.html   (452 words)

  
 700 - 900
Charles Martel's halt of the invasion of French soil turned the tide of Islamic advance, and the unification of the Frankish kingdom under Charles Martel, his son Pippin the Short, and his grandson Charlemagne.
On the death of his father in 741, Pippin became Mayor of the Palace under the weak Merovingian king Childeric III.
Charlemagne was the elder son of Pippin the Short, and on the death of Pippin in 768 the kingdom was divided between Charlemagne and his brother Carloman.
faculty.ucc.edu /egh-damerow/700_-_900.htm   (924 words)

  
 Lord of the Rings, The - Literature Guide - MSN Encarta
Thereafter, Tolkien always retained an idealized image of the Sarehole Mill, its old mill pool and overhanging willow tree, a tempting nearby mushroom patch, and the local clusters of cottages—all of which figured in his picture of Hobbiton.
However, he is also the voice of normality, longing for the beauty of home, his family and friends in the Shire, his garden, and his pots and pans.
Pippin, Aragorn, and Denethor all use one of the palantiri.
uk.encarta.msn.com /sidebar_701509618/The_Lord_of_the_Rings.html   (4148 words)

  
 Gamgee Family
Pippin Gamgee was born in the year 8 of the Fourth Age.
Pippin had four older siblings - Elanor, Frodo Gardner, Rose, and Merry - and eight younger siblings - Goldilocks, Hamfast, Daisy, Bilbo, Ruby, Robin, and Tolman.
When they were younger, Rosie and her brothers would go swimming with Sam Gamgee in Bywater Pool.
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Pippin lifted his head to look at Merry his eyes were red, but diverted his eyes so not to make eye contact with Merry’s blue eyes.
Pippin held tightly onto the edge of the table bracing him self for what was to come.
Pippin was panting heavily, until Merry found his gland and Pippin shuck his head in pleasure that mage his toes curls.
www.libraryofmoria.com /merrypippin/random.txt   (1732 words)

  
 SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Steven Pippin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
From a box of biscuits to washroom fixtures, Pippin turns the most ordinary objects and places into photographic apparatuses -- studio, camera, darkroom -- through artistic endeavors that are at once optical, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
Pippin's capacity to create photographic images with neither traditional camera nor developing facilities recalls the inventiveness and resourcefulness of the medium's earliest practitioners.
After preparing and priming all twelve machines, Pippin, dressed conservatively in a dark suit, walked through the laundromat, hitting the wires and causing the shutters to open and the bulbs to flash, thus exposing the film in the drum.
www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/98_exhib_steven_pippin.html   (363 words)

  
 Lord of the Rings: Why Pippin Is Better Than Jack Sparrow
Pippin is short — most of the great rulers were short people.
Pippin (as in the character) doesn't have a tattoo.
Pippin is willing to stick with his friends, no matter what danger.
www.geocities.com /hastiest_of_ents/pippin_vs_jack.html   (280 words)

  
 Of Canines and Cabbages
The younger hobbit was not as graceful in his descent and landed rather hard on the ground.
Pippin didn't speak during the trek back to Brandy Hall and was unusually quiet during the evening meal.
Pippin ran out of the room and scampered as swiftly as he could down the hall to his cousin's room.
www.angelfire.com /realm3/melisusthewee/fic_cabbage.html   (1894 words)

  
 The Birthday Present
Pippin had once overheard that Merry was a hard hobbit to please, and here he was, begging Pippin for more.
Pippin gasped and jumped slightly when Merry began to suck on the side of his neck.
Seeing Pippin, his Pippin, laying there on the soft grass, shirt open, limbs spread and looking decadent in the silver moonlight, Merry thought of the stories Bilbo told, of elves and odder things.
www.angelfire.com /in4/lotr/thebirthdaypresent.html   (2198 words)

  
 The Chimericon: Bronwe
The sun was shining, birds were singing, the soft drone of bees filled the air, and above it all was the cheerful sound of the laughter of hobbit children.
This was a new side of the younger hobbit that Merry hadn't yet seen.
Pippin had grown up in the short time they'd been apart and was no longer so ready to worship everything Merry did.
www.subreality.com /chimericon/bronwe-a09.htm   (581 words)

  
 Charlemagne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 687, Pippin of Heristal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, ended the strife between various kings and their mayors with his victory at Tertry and practically became the sole governor of the entire Frankish kingdom.
Pippin himself was the grandson of two most important figures of the Austrasian Kingdom, Saint Arnulf of Metz and Pippin of Landen.
In 751, Pippin was elected and anointed King of the Franks and in 754, Pope Stephen II again anointed him and his young sons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlemagne   (7604 words)

  
 The Franks, C
Pippin, before his death in 7I4, had reconquered some of the lands on the frontiers which had become nearly independent dur ing the long struggle between the rival mayors.
Pippin laid the foundation for the close alliance which was to bind together the papacy and the Carolingians and to be so important to both parties.
Pippin's work was continued by his son Charles, later known as Martel, or "the Hammer." But, as Charles was an illegitimate son, Pippin had willed the succession to his grandson, who was only eight years old.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Munro02.html   (4229 words)

  
 Pippin of Herstal biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
He was the grandson of Pippin the Elder from the marriage of Ansegisel and Begga, the daughter of the Elder.
Around 670, Pippin II married Plectrude for her inheritance of substantial estates in the Moselle region.
However, Charles Martel, Pippin's son by his mistress, Alpaida (or Chalpaida), had gained favour among the Austrasians, primarily for his military prowess and ability to keep them well supplied with booty from his conquests.
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 fate21   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
"No," Pippin answered in a quavering voice, though he was aware that his hand was aching and throbbing and that he still felt somewhat feverish.
He stroked Pippin's hair until the tween-ager's eyes shut again, and then gently traced the shadows of bruises still faintly visible on his younger cousin's face.
Pippin blinked slowly, thoughtfully, at him, but then Frodo kissed his brow and whispered, "Sleep." Pippin obeyed, and his dreams were full of the colors and smells and textures of Bag End, and the sounds of his cousins' voices.
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 LIFE OF CHUCK
Charlie, as they called him at home, was born about A.D. 742, the son of Pippin the Short and Bertha of the Big Foot, an outstanding girl of the period.
Pippin was mayor of the palace, or majordomo, for Childeric the Brainless, one of the Do-Nothing kings of the Franks who did nothing but sit around all day long twiddling their mistresses and quaffing mead.
Pippin the Short died in 768, leaving his title jointly to Charles and Carloman a younger son who soon died suddenly, although he had never been sick a day in his life.
medieval.ucdavis.edu /20A/Chuck.html   (1739 words)

  
 Pippin II the Younger of Herstal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Occupation: Pippin II was Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy from 680 to 714.
Comments: Pippin II (or Pépin in French) of Herstal was also known as Pippin the Younger (his grandfather being Pippin the Elder).
Pippin of Herstal and Plectrude married around the year 670.
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 Stories of Arda - Lord of the Rings Fan-Fiction Archive
Pippin eyed him and sighed, "Merry, I don’t want you to be unhappy but I also don’t want you to waste your time on-" Pippin stopped speaking and looked down at his hands.
Pippin’s face was turning red with his efforts to free his hands and with his growing anger at Merry.
Pippin had placed his hands on the small of her back and Merry could hear his younger cousin’s infectious laugh.
www.storiesofarda.com /chapterview.asp?sid=2364&cid=10886   (4809 words)

  
 Pippin the Younger
Pippin the Younger is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
The son of the Goth, Aigulf, Count of Maguelone in Languedoc, France, Witiza was educated at the Frankish court of Pippin the Younger, and entered the royal service.
On Pippin the Middle's death in 714, the succession passed to an infant grandson, Theodoald.
www.experiencefestival.com /pippin_the_younger   (888 words)

  
 Minnikin
The younger girl thought since she was a very little person then she should be named Minnikin, and the older girl agreed.
The younger son had been stolen by the same three trolls who had claimed the princess for their bride, and the king had given him up for dead.
Pippin and the older prince were married, and Minnikin and the younger prince were married, both ceremnonies taking place at the same time, but you probably guessed this on your own.
www.ink.imagedjinn.com /minnikin.htm   (7191 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Arda: Mimosa Bunce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Her husband was Ponto Baggins, and through Ponto's brothers Mimosa was indirectly related to both Bilbo and Frodo.
The elder, Rosa Baggins, married into the Took clan, and through her Mimosa was the ancestor of both Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took.
Her younger child was a son named Polo, who also had many descendants, including various Bagginses, Bolgers and Burrowses.
www.glyphweb.com /arda/m/mimosabunce.html   (108 words)

  
 The Falcon, Part 1
Pippin was born in the farmhouse at Whitwell and had only visited the Smials on family occasions.
Pippin went to the nearest sitting room, one of his favorite spots, where Diamond seldom ventured and which therefore was always a slight mess.
Pippin knew Saradoc was unable to attend, and why, and anger and resentment flared in him against his uncle, even though he knew that his uncle's vices were by now compulsions he couldn't master.
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