Carloman I

Carloman I ( * 751, † December 4 771 in the royal palace Samoussy; buried in Reims ), the son of Pippin the Younger brother of Charles the Great, was King of the Franks from 768 to 771

Carloman was 754 anointed by Pope Stephen II in the Abbey of Saint- Denis with his father Pepin and his brother Charles as king. After Pepin's death, he joined with a second royal anointing on 9 October 768 in Soissons dominion over the southeastern part of the Frankish Empire, Burgundy and Aquitaine to Alemannia on.

Carloman was married to Gerberga. With her he had two children, Pippin, 770 testified, and another child. According to the historian Eduard Hlawitschka it should here have acted to Ida of Herzfeld. Gerberga and her two children fled after Karl 's death in the Lombard kingdom, and put themselves under the protection of King Desiderius. However, they disappear after 773/4 from source, after they were the followers of Charles fallen into the hands. They were, it is believed, aside managed to allow Karl sole rule over the whole Frankish kingdom.