♂ Pepin of Herstal

635 - 714

 

Duke of the Franks, Mayor of the Palace

Pepin of Herstal
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Ansegisel
Ansegisel
0602 - 0679
Saint Begga
Saint Begga
0615 - 0693
Children
Charles Martel
Charles Martel
0688 - 0741

635

635 Judicael, high king of Domnonée (Brittany), visits king Dagobert I at his palace in Clichy (northwestern of Paris) to promise he would remain under Frankish lordship. The Breton king arrives with gifts, but insults Dagobert by refusing to eat at the royal table.Smith, 19 and 21

688


Age: 53y
688 Eadberht is appointed bishop of Lindisfarne (Northumbria). He founds the holy shrine to his predecessor Cuthbert, a place that becomes a centre of great pilgrimage in later years.

714


Dec 16
Age: 80y
714 • Musa ibn Nusayr and Tariq ibn Ziyad are summoned back to Damascus by caliph Al-Walid I. They are ordered to deliver all the spoils of war. Musa complains and is stripped of his rank. Abd al-Aziz, son of Musa, becomes governor of Al-Andalus (modern Spain).

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