Pepin, Count of Vermandois

Pepin (817 - after 854) was the first count of Vermandois, lord of Senlis, Péronne, and Saint Quentin. He was the son of King Bernard of Italy, a grandson of Charlemagne and Cunigunda of Laon.

Pepin first appears in 834 as a count to the north of the Seine during the reign of his granduncle Louis the Pious, Son and successor to his Great Grandfather Charlemagne aged 17 and then appears as same again in 840 aged 23.In that year, he supported his 45 year old uncle Lothair I against his aged great uncle,the 62 year old Louis the Pious.

Pepin's wife is unknown, she has been spuriously called "Rothaide de Bobbio". His heir inherited much Nibelungid territory and so historian K. F. Werner hypothesized a marriage to a daughter of Theodoric Nibelung. Their children were:

Bernard (c. 844 – after 893), count of Laon ^[1]
Gerberge (born c. 854)
Pepin (c. 846–893), count of Senlis and lord of Valois (877–893)^[1]
Herbert I of Vermandois (c. 850–907)^[1]
Beatrix (born c. 854)
Mathilde (born c. 857)
Adelaide (born c. 858)
Cunigunda

References

1 2 3 Rosamond Mckitterick, The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, (Pearson Education Limited, 1999), 360-361.

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