Childebrand I: Difference between revisions

{{Expand French|topic=bio|Childebrand Ier|date=July 2012}}
{{Infobox noble|name=Childebrand I|image=|birth_date={{circa}} 678|birth_place=[[Autun]], [[Saône-et-Loire]], [[FranceFrancia]]|death_date={{Death year and age|751|678}}|mother=[[Alpaida]]|death_place=Autun, Saône-et-Loire,Francia France|father=[[Pepin of Herstal]]|nationality=[[Franks|Frank]]}}{{Expand French|Childebrand Ier|date=July 2012}}

'''Childebrand I''' (c. 678 -– 743 or 751) was a [[Franks|Frankish]] [[duke]] (''dux''), [[illegitimate]] son of [[Pepin of Heristal]] and [[Alpaida]], and brother of [[Charles Martel]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Commire|first=Anne|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41108563|title=Women in world history : a biographical encyclopedia|publisher=Yorkin Publications|others=Klezmer, Deborah.|year=2002|isbn=0-7876-3736-X|location=Waterford, CT|pages=|chapter=Alphaida (c. 654–c. 714)|oclc=41108563}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Fouracre|first=Paul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etkYDQAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT53&dq=%22Alpaida%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22Childebrand%20+%22&fpg=falsePT53|title=The Age of Charles Martel|date=2016-09-17|publisher=Routledge|year=|isbn=978-1-317-89848-1|location=|pages=|language=en|orig-year=2000}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Settipani, Christian.|first=|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29856008|title=La préhistoire des Capétiens, 481-987|date=|publisher=P. Van Kerrebrouck|others=Kerrebrouck, Patrick van.|year=1993|isbn=2-9501509-3-4|location=Villeneuve d'Ascq|pages=|language=fr|oclc=29856008}}</ref> He was born in [[Autun]], where he would later diedied. He married Emma of [[Austrasia]] and was given [[Kingdom of Burgundy|Burgundy]] by his father, becoming a [[duke]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Sellers|first=Edwin Jaquett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EuBrAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA98&dq=%22Childebrand%22+I&hlpg=enPA98|title=Allied Ancestry of the Van Culemborg Family of Culemborg, Holland: Being the Ancestry of Sophia Van Culemborg, Wife of Johan de Carpentier, Parents of Maria de Carpentier, Wife of Jean Paul Jaquet, Vice-director and Chief Magistrate of the Colonies on the South River of New Netherland 1655-16571655–1657|date=August 6, 2008|publisher=Press of Allen Lane & Scott|isbn=|location=|pages=|language=en|orig-year=1915}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tyrrell|first=Joseph Henry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BKAuZoxsEOsC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&q=%22Childebrand%22&hl=en|title=A Genealogical History of the Tyrrells: Sometime of the French Vexin, Poix in Picardy, Guernanville in Normandy, Laingaham in Essex, Kingsworthy and Avon Tyrell in Hampshire; Castleknock in Co. Dublin, Fertullagh in Co. Westmeath; and Now of Grange Castle, Co. Kildare; Clonard, Co. Meath; and Elsewhere : with Pedigrees from B.C. 443 to the Present Day : an Appendix Containing the Descents of Some Families (and Their Connections) with Whom Alliances Have Been Contracted, and a Roll of Arms|date=|publisher=Phillimore and Company|year=1980|isbn=9780850333374|location=|pages=|language=en|orig-year=1904}}</ref> He distinguished himself in the expulsion of the [[Saracens]] from [[FranceFrancia]]<nowiki/> alongside his brother when he captured [[Marseille]], one of the largest cities still in [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad]] hands.<ref name=":1" />

He was the patron of the [[continuator]] of the ''[[Chronicle of Fredegar]]'', as was his son [[Nibelung I]] or Nivelon.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Riché, Pierre.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10993130|title=Les Carolingiens : une famille qui fit l'Europe|date=1983|publisher=Hachette littérature|isbn=2-01-009737-8|location=[Paris]|oclc=10993130}}</ref>

Some scholarsLevellain believe that Childebrand was actually the [[Half brother|half-brother]] of Charles Martel, related through his fathermother.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Bouchard|first=Constance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYT6TM_wJ3YC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA141&dq=%22Childebrand%22+I&hlpg=enPA141|title=Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia|date=2001-02-20|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-3590-6|language=en}}</ref> His date of death is also contentious, as some sources place his death at 743 while others claim he lived until 751.<ref name=":2" />