| Name | 'Pepin I' Carloman "King of Italy" "King of Lombardy" |
| Birth | 12 Apr 0773, Aachen, GERMANY |
| Death | 8 Jul 0810, Milan, ITALY Age: 37 |
| Occupation | Royalty |
| Father | Charlemagne "Charles the Great" "King of the Franks" (0742-0814) |
| Mother | Hildegarde de VINTZGAU "Countess of Linzgau" "Queen" (0758-0783) |
| 1 | Bertha de TOULOUSE |
| Birth | 0777, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, FRANCE |
| Death | ITALY |
| Father | 'William I' de GELLONE "Count of Toulouse" (0750-0813) |
| Mother | UNNAMED |
| Children | Bernhard (~0797-0818) |
| Theodrate (~0800-0836) | |
| Aeda Italy | |
| Adelaide Italy |
Pippin of Italy (April, 773 – July 8, 810) was the king of Italy (781-810) as holder of the Iron Crown of Lombardy, won by his father in 774.
Pippin was the third son of Charlemagne, and the second with his wife Hildegard of Savoy. He was born Carloman, but when his brother Pippin the Hunchback betrayed their father, the royal name Pippin passed to him. He was made king of Italy after his father's conquest of the Lombards, in 781, and crowned by Pope Hadrian I.
He was active as ruler of Italy 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. Pippin 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.
His activities included a long, but unsuccessful siege of Venice in 810. The siege lasted six months and Pippin's army was ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and was forced to withdraw. A few months later Pippin died. - [1]
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippin_of_Italy