Page "Carloman I" Paragraph 3

At the age of 3, he was, together with his father, Pepin the Short, and his elder brother, Charlemagne, anointed King of the Franks and titled " Patrician of the Romans " by Pope Stephen II, who had left Rome to beg the Frankish King for assistance against the Lombards.

Together with Charlemagne, he inherited a half of the Kingdom of the Franks upon Pepin's death.

His share was based in the centre of the Frankish Kingdom, with his capital at Soissons, and consisted of the Parisian basin, the Massif Central, the Languedoc, Provence, Burgundy, southern Austrasia, Alsace and Alemannia ; the regions were poorly integrated and surrounded by those bequeathed to Charlemagne, and, although Carloman's territories were easier to defend than those of Charlemagne, they were also poorer in income.