Pippin of Italy (April, 773 – July 8, 810) was the son of Charlemagne and king of Italy (781-810) under the authority of his father. Events Charlemagne crosses the Alps and invades the kingdom of the Lombards. ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 8-10 is also going to be the Toronto Raptors record as of Dec. ... A portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer that was painted several centuries after Charlemagnes death. ... King of Italy is a title adopted by many rulers after the fall of the Roman Empire. ... Events Emperor Kammu succeeds Emperor Konin as emperor of Japan. ...

Pippin was the third son of Charlemagne, and the second with his wife Hildegard. 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 with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. A portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer that was painted several centuries after Charlemagnes death. ... Hildegard (758-783) was the daughter of Count Gerold of Vinzgouw and Imma (Emma) of Alemannia. ... Charlemagne und Pippin the Hunchback. ... The Lombards (Latin Langobardi, whence the alternative name Longobards found in older English texts), were a Germanic people originally from Northern Europe that entered the late Roman Empire. ... Adrian, or Hadrian I, (d. ... The Iron Crown of Lombardy (Corona Ferrea) is both a reliquary and one of the most ancient royal insignia of Europe. ...

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. Events The Avars invade Europe again, but are defeated by Charlemagne in 796. ... The Drave at Drávaszabolcs, Hungary The Drave at Vízvár, Hungary The Drave at Maribor, Slovenia The Drava or Drave (German: Drau, Slovenian, Croatian and Italian: Drava, Hungarian: Dráva) is a river in southern Central Europe. ... Position of the Roman province of Pannonia Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. ... The Danube (ancient Danuvius, ancient Greek Istros) is the longest river of the European Union and Europes second-longest[3] (after the Volga). ... Map showing the location of Avar Khaganate, c. ... The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of the more than thirty years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of disaffected tribesmen was crushed. ... Events Irenes title of empress confirmed. ... Eric (died 799) was the Duke of Friuli from 789 to his death. ... Oche redirects here; in darts the oche is the line from which players must throw. ... Offa (died July 26/29, 796) was the King of Mercia from 757 until his death. ...

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. Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) is the capital of the Italian regions and has a population of 271,663 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ...

He married Bertha, daughter of William of Gellone, count of Toulouse, and had five daughters with her (Adelaide, married Duke Guy I of Spoleto; Atala; Gundrada; Bertha; and Tetrada), all of whom but the eldest were born between 800 and Pippin's death and died before their grandfather's death in 814. Pippin also had an illegitimate son Bernard. Pippin was expected to inherit a third of his father's empire, but he predeceased him. The Italian crown passed on to his son Bernard, but the empire went to Pippin's younger brother Louis the Pious. Saint William of Gellone (755-traditionally May 28, c. ... After the Visigothic Kings of Aquitaine (409 - 508), the Merovingian kings were kings and dukes in Aquitaine and dukes of Toulouse. ... Guy I (d. ... Events December 25, Rome, coronation of Charles the Great (Charlemagne) as emperor by Pope Leo III. Celtic monks begin work on the Book of Kells on the Island of Iona. ... Events Louis the Pious succeeds Charlemagne as king of the Franks and Emperor. ... Bernard (d. ... Louis the Pious, contemporary depiction from 826 as a miles Christi (soldier of Christ), with a poem of Rabanus Maurus overlaid. ...