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Guillaume Pepin
CHAPTER 17
GUILLAUME PEPIN dit
T ranchemontagne
a name from the oldest of French Pepin de Landen (the Old), lived 1	JjMQz),	in	the XII century; he was the father of
Grimoald, ancestor of the Carolingians, whose dynasty gave twelve	Kings	to	the
mother country. Pe'pin d?Heristal, grandson of Pepin de Landen, was	Duke	of	the
Austrasiens, a people living in the eastern part of France. Finally,	Pepin	the Short, the best known of	all, is	famous
for	his	warlike actions. A powerful man,	born	to	the
saddle, he rode to glory over the backs of the Aquitans, the Alamans, the Bavarois and the Saxons. Having united his Kingdom by the sword, he was crowned by Saint-Boniface, apostle of the Germains.
Are the Canadian Pepins distant descendants of these old Kings of France? Each has the freedom to claim it, but we will never really know. There are so many generations between the two eras, lost in the fog of the centuries, and, apart from the records kept by the nobility, largely unrecorded.
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