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Pepin the Short — Mayor of the palace become king of the Franks in 751, the first Carolingian
Son of Charles Martel, he did what his father had declined to do: depose the last Merovingian and take the crown. The dynasty he opened was to last two and a half centuries and give its name to an empire. (Editorial synthesis)
Pepin the Short was born around 715 (Julian calendar). (source: BnF)
Pepin the Short died in 768 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica and BnF)
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