Pepin -, Count of Vermandois

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

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Bernard -, Count of Laon was born about 844; died after 893.
2. Pepin -, Count of Senlis was born about 846; died in 893.
3. Herbert -, I, Count of Vermandois was born about 849; died in 907.
4. Gerberge - was born about 854.
5. Beatrix - was born about 854.
6. Maud - was born about 857.
7. Adelaide - was born about 858.
8. Cunigunda - was born on Yes, date unknown.

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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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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.

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From Wikipedia:
was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum) from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800. This temporarily made him a rival of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. His rule is also associated with the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of art, religion, and culture through the medium of the Catholic Church. Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne helped define both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. He is numbered as Charles I in the regnal lists of Germany (where he is known as Karl der Große), the Holy Roman Empire, and France.
The son of King Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, a Frankish queen, he succeeded his father in 768 and co-ruled with his brother Carloman I. The latter got on badly with Charlemagne, but war was prevented by the sudden death of Carloman in 771. Charlemagne continued the policy of his father towards the papacy and became its protector, removing the Lombards from power in Italy, and leading an incursion into Muslim Spain, to which he was invited by the Muslim governor of Barcelona. Charlemagne was promised several Iberian cities in return for giving military aid to the governor; however, the deal was withdrawn. Subsequently, Charlemagne's retreating army experienced its worst defeat at the hands of the Basques, at the Battle of Roncesvalles (778) (memorialised, although heavily fictionalised, in the Song of Roland). He also campaigned against the peoples to his east, especially the Saxons, and after a protracted war subjected them to his rule. By forcibly Christianizing the Saxons and banning on penalty of death their native Germanic paganism, he integrated them into his realm and thus paved the way for the later Ottonian dynasty.
Today he is regarded not only as the founding father of both French and German monarchies, but also as a Pater Europae (father of Europe): his empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Romans, and the Carolingian renaissance encouraged the formation of a common European identity.

Charlemagne married Hildegard of Vinzgouw - about 771. Hildegard was born in 758; died on 30 Apr 783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was from Germany and the second wife of Charlemagne.