Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NamePippin I , King of Italy and the Lombards 
BirthApr 773
Death8 Jul 810
MotherHildegarde of Savoy (758-783)
Misc. Notes
Pippin of Italy (April, 773 – July 8, 810) was the king of Italy (781-810) as holder of the Iron Crown of Lombardy, won by his father in 774.
Pippin was the third son of Charlemagne, and the second with his wife Hildegard of Savoy. He was born Carloman, but when his brother Pippin the Hunchback betrayed their father, the royal name Pippin 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.
He was active as ruler of Italy 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. Charlemagne left the campaigning to deal with a Saxon revolt in 792. Pippin and Duke Eric of Friuli continued, however, to assault the Avars' ring-shaped strongholds. The great Ring of the Avars, their capital fortress, was taken twice. The booty was sent to Charlemagne in Aachen and redistributed to all his followers and even to foreign rulers, including King Offa of Mercia.
His activities included a long, but unsuccessful siege of Venice in 810. The siege lasted six months and Pippin's army was ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and was forced to withdraw. A few months later Pippin died.
He married Bertha, daughter of William of Gellone, count of Toulouse, and had five daughters with her, all of whom but the eldest were born between 800 and Pippin's death and died before their grandfather's death in 814:
1. Adelaide, married Duke Guy I of Spoleto
2. Atala
3. Gundrada
4. Bertha
5. Tetrada
He also had an illegitimate son Bernard. Pippin was expected to inherit a third of his father's empire, but he predeceased him. The Italian crown passed on to his son Bernard, but the empire went to Pippin's younger brother Louis the Pious.
Pippin was the third son of Charlemagne, and the second with his wife Hildegard of Savoy. He was born Carloman, but when his brother Pippin the Hunchback betrayed their father, the royal name Pippin 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.
He was active as ruler of Italy 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. Charlemagne left the campaigning to deal with a Saxon revolt in 792. Pippin and Duke Eric of Friuli continued, however, to assault the Avars' ring-shaped strongholds. The great Ring of the Avars, their capital fortress, was taken twice. The booty was sent to Charlemagne in Aachen and redistributed to all his followers and even to foreign rulers, including King Offa of Mercia.
His activities included a long, but unsuccessful siege of Venice in 810. The siege lasted six months and Pippin's army was ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and was forced to withdraw. A few months later Pippin died.
He married Bertha, daughter of William of Gellone, count of Toulouse, and had five daughters with her, all of whom but the eldest were born between 800 and Pippin's death and died before their grandfather's death in 814:
1. Adelaide, married Duke Guy I of Spoleto
2. Atala
3. Gundrada
4. Bertha
5. Tetrada
He also had an illegitimate son Bernard. Pippin was expected to inherit a third of his father's empire, but he predeceased him. The Italian crown passed on to his son Bernard, but the empire went to Pippin's younger brother Louis the Pious.