Maud -

Family/Spouse: Malahule Ragnaldsson of More -. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Biography:
He was the first count of Vermandois, lord of Senlis, Péronne, and Saint Quentin.

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Biography:
Since Bernard's father Pepin had five legitimate daughters and one illegitimate son, Bernard, Bernard's grandfather Charlemagne let Bernard inherit the throne after his father's death.
After Charlemagne died, things were still good with Charlemagne's successor, Louis the Pious, until 817 when Louis wrote up his legacy giving the bulk of the Empire to his son Lothair I but leaving Italy to Bernard. Bernard would be a vassal to Lothair which was essentially the same situation as between Bernard and Louis. Bernard may have worried that Louis' second wife wanted to give some of Bernard's land to her son Charles the Bald. Bernard plotted against his uncle Louis and Louis found out about it. Bernard and others were tried at Aix-la-Chapelle and sentenced to death. Out of mercy Louis decided instead of putting them to death he would simply blind then with red hot pokers. Bernard died from complications two days later. Italy was given to Lothair.
Bernard's uncle and cousin, Louis and Lothair were also ancestors of ours.

Bernard married Cunigunda of Laon - in 813. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Biography:
He was born Carloman, but after his half brother Pepin the Hunchback was disinherited by his father, the royal name Pepin was passed to Carloman. In 780 Charlemagne disinherited his oldest son and had the pope baptize is third son Pepin. The elder Pepin eventually agreed to participate in a plot to kill his father and brothers but they were caught and he was forced to live in a monastery the rest of his life.
The younger Pepin became King of the Lombards from 791 until his death in 810. He helped his father to expand the Empire, but in 810 he led an unsuccessful siege against Venice. It lasted 6 months and Pepin's army suffered greatly from diseases picked up in the local swamps. They were forced to withdraw and a few months later Pepin died from disease he had caught during the siege.