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Key facts
- Reign
- 741–747
- Predecessor
- Charles Martel
- Successor
- Pepin the Short
- Born
- c. 713
- Died
- 17 July or 17 August 754 (aged 40-41) , Vienne, Isère
- Burial
- Abbey of Monte Cassino
- Issue
- Drogo , (possibly) Rotrude, Countess of Paris
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Francia
- Place of birth
- Vienne
- Place of death
- Vienne
- Father
- Charles Martel
- Mother
- Rotrude of Trier
- Sibling
- Landrada
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Mayor of the Palace
- Family
- Arnulfings
- Noble title
- duke
- Image
- Fvldensivm Antiqvitatvm Titelbild 1623.jpg
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- Commons category
- Carloman (–754)
- date of birth
- 0710-01-01
- date of death
- 0754-12-04
- place of burial
- Abbey of Monte Cassino
- cause of death
- disease
- canonization status
- saint
- feast day
- August 17
- P6482
- Carloman
- name in native language
- Carloman
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Carloman (between 706 and 716 – 17 August 754) was the eldest son of Charles Martel, mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks, and his wife Chrotrud of Treves. On Charles's death (741), Carloman and his brother Pepin the Short succeeded to their father's legal positions, Carloman in Austrasia, and Pepin in Neustria. He was a member of the family later called the Carolingians and it can be argued that he was instrumental in consolidating their power at the expense of the ruling Merovingian kings of the Franks. He withdrew from public life in 747 to take up the monastic habit, "the first of a new type of saintly king", according to Norman Cantor, "more interested in religious devotion than royal power, who frequently appeared in the following three centuries and who was an indication of the growing impact of Christian piety on Germanic society".
Assumption of power
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carloman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.