Pepin I of Aquitaine

Pippin I ( * 797, † November 13, according to other sources: December 13, 838 ) was King of Aquitaine from 817 to 838

He is not to be confused with his ancestor I. Pippin the Elder ( † 639/40 ).

Life

Pippin was the second son of Louis I the Pious from his first marriage with Ermengarde.

As part of the empire, he was assigned by his father in August 814 Aquitaine, where he was able to retain a degree of political autonomy, which was especially apparent at the coronation of his son Pepin II.

He completed 822 marriage with Rings ( Hringard ) or Ingeltrud, the daughter of the Count of Teudbert Madrie, with whom he had two sons, Pepin II, who became his successor in Aquitaine, Charles (* probably 825/830, 4 † June 863), which was 856 Archbishop of Mainz on March 8.

Pippin defied the advice of his adviser Berengar of Toulouse, rising 830 with his brother Louis the German and with the support of Bernard of Septimania against the father. He was defeated 832 to Limoges the imperial troops, and was exiled to Trier; he fled his watch and joined the revolt of 833 to, which ended on the field lies with the deposition of his father.

The behavior of his eldest brother Lothar in the subsequent period was Pippin switch sides and operate the reinstatement of his father, to which it also came on 1 March 834. Pippin died just five years later and was buried in Sainte -Croix in Poitiers.