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Family: King of Italy Pepin Carolingian, IV / Queen Bertha de Toulouse de Gellone (F7451)

• Male King of Italy Pepin Carolingian, IV

  
  

  Birth	Apr 773	Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  Death	8 Jul 810	Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy
  Burial		Verona, Veneto, Italy
  Marriage		Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France  [1]
  Father	Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Emperor Charles Charlemagne, I | F5679 Group Sheet
  Mother	Queen of the Franks Hildegarde de Vinzgau Swabia | F5679 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Queen Bertha de Toulouse de Gellone

  
  

  Birth	777	Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France
  Death	870	Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy
  Burial
  Father	2nd Count of Toulouse Saint William de Gellone, I | F3907 Group Sheet
  Mother	Guiboar von Hornbach | F3907 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male King of Italy Bernard Cunigunde

  
  

  Birth	797	Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy
  Death	17 Apr 818	Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy
  Burial
  Spouse	Kunigunda Cunegonde | F3767
  Marriage	813	Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France

  
  

• Sources

  [S939] Wikipedia: Pepin of Italy, Pepin of Italy. Pepin or Pippin (or Pepin Carloman, Pepinno, April 773 – 8 July 810), born Carloman, was the son of Charlemagne and King of the Lombards (781–810) under the authority of his father. Pepin was the second son of Charlemagne by his then-wife Hildegard.[1] He was born Carloman, but was rechristened with the royal name Pepin (also the name of his older half-brother Pepin the Hunchback, and his grandfather Pepin the Short) when he was a young child. He was made "king of Italy"[2] after his father's conquest of the Lombards, in 781, and crowned by Pope Hadrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. He was active as ruler of Lombardy 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. Pepin 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. A celebratory poem, De Pippini regis Victoria Avarica, was composed after Pepin forced the Avar khagan to submit in 796.[3] This poem was composed at Verona, Pepin's capital after 799 and the centre of Carolingian Renaissance literature in Italy. The Versus de Verona (c. 800), an urban encomium of the city, likewise praises king Pepin.[4] The "Codex Gothanus" History of the Lombards hails Pepin's campaign against Benevento and his liberation of Corsica "from the oppression of the Moors."[5] His activities included a long, but unsuccessful siege of Venice in 810. The siege lasted six months and Pepin's army was ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and was forced to withdraw. A few months later Pepin died, on 8 July 810. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepin_of_Italy