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CARLOMAN (751-771)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARLOMAN (751-771)  , king of the Franks, was a son of King Pippin the Short, and consequently a
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brother of Charlemagne . The brothers became joint kings of the Franks on Pippin's
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death in 768, and some trouble which broke out between them over the conduct of the war in
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Aquitaine was followed by Carlo-man's death at Samoussy on the 4th of December 771 . He married Gerberga, a daughter of
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Desiderius, king of the Lombards, who, together with her children, vanished from
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history soon after her
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husband's death .

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