Pepin of Landen

Also known as Pippin der Ältere and Pépin le Vieux.

Mayor of the palace of Austrasia.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 639 or 640.

The date is given by Schieffer.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Itta (died 650).

This relationship is given by pére Anselme (1:22), by Bretscher-Gisiger, and by Schieffer.

Children:

Begga (died about 693) married Ansegisel.

Grimoald (about 615 - 657).

Gertrude (died about 659), abbess of Nivelles. (Also known as Saint Gertrude of Nivelles).

References

Sources (available online):

Annales Mettenses Priores (ed. B. de Simson) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: SS rer. Germ. 10 (Hannover, 1905). (s.a.688)

(Pseudo-) Fredegarius. Chronicarum quae dicunter Fredegarii Scholastici libri IV. cum Continuationes (ed. Bruno Krusch) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum tomus II. (Hannover, 1888). (IV 40, 52, 58, 61, 85)

"De Virtutibus Sanctae Geretrudis" (ed. Bruno Krusch) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum tomus II. (Hannover, 1888). (c. 10)

"Vita B. Pippini" in Acta Sanctorum Belgii selecta Tomus Secundus (Brussels, 1784).

"Vita Sanctae Geretrudis" (ed. Bruno Krusch) in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum tomus II. (Hannover, 1888). (c. 1-2)

Literature:

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Bretscher-Gisiger, Ch. genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Schieffer, Rudolf. “Pippin d. Ältere”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 20 (2001), S. 468 [Onlinefassung].

Settipani, Christian. Les ancêtres de Charlemagne. (2nd ed., Prosopographia et Genealogica, 2014).