* Carloman, Pippin the Short and Grifo succeed their father Charles Martel as Mayor of the Palace.

* Pippin of Italy ( 773 – 810 ), whose original name was Carloman

On Charles ' death ( 741 ), Carloman and his brother Pippin the Short succeeded to their father's legal positions, Carloman in Austrasia, and Pippin in Neustria.

By 742, Carloman and Pippin had ousted their half-brother, Grifo and forced him into a monastery, and each turned his attention towards his own area of influence as major domo, Pippin in the West ( in what was called Neustria, roughly the Area between Nancy and Reims ) and Carloman in the East ( in what was called Austrasia, roughly what is now is the area between Bruges, Metz and Fulda ), which was the Carolingian base of power.

Unlike most medieval instances of fraternal power sharing, Carloman and Pippin for seven years seemed at least willing to work together ; certainly, they undertook many military actions together.

Carloman joined Pippin against Hunald of Aquitaine's rising in 742 and again in 745.

For Carloman, a deeply religious man, it was a duty of love, for Pippin a practical duty.

Pippin was unmoved, and imprisoned Carloman in Vienne, where he died on 17 August.

Following his victory, Pippin the Short died in 768 and was followed by his sons Charlemagne and Carloman.

* Pippin ( 773 or 777 – 810 ), born Carloman and later renamed at baptism, king of Italy from 781

His elder brother, Pippin the Hunchback, was disinherited, and his younger brothers Carloman ( renamed Pippin ) and Louis the Pious received Italy and Aquitaine, respectively.

Of the shorter poems, besides the greeting to Pippin on his return from the campaign against the Avars ( 796 ), an epistle to David ( Charlemagne ) incidentally reveals a delightful picture of the poet living with his children in a house surrounded by pleasant gardens near the emperor's palace.

In 754, Pope Stephen II had begged Pippin, now king, to come to his aid against the king of the Lombards, Aistulf.

Following an Entmoot, the rest of the Ents agreed to march against Isengard, taking Merry and Pippin with them, and sent Huorns to Helm's Deep to deal with the Orcs there.

On several occasions, Lothair led his full-brothers Pippin I of Aquitaine and Louis the German in revolt against their father to protest against attempts to make their half-brother Charles the Bald a co-heir to the Frankish domains.

Narbonne capitulated in 759 only after Pippin promised the defenders of the city to uphold the Gothic law, and the county was granted to Miló, the Gothic count in Muslim times, thus earning the loyalty of Septimania's Goths against Waifer.

In 613 Arnulf joined his politics with Pippin of Landen and led the opposition of Frankish nobles against Queen Brunhilda.

The 1981 BBC The Lord of the Rings radio play has " The Scouring of the Shire " story included along with the Shire homeland taken over by ruffians, like the book Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin does rally up the Hobbits to fight against the ruffians in which the Hobbits won The Battle of Bywater and includes the original showdown and ending of Saruman who dies by Wormtongues knife and Wormtongue who gets killed by arrows in the Shire, also it tells about the murder of Lotho and Lobelia who gives Frodo and Sam back his home and money to help out the Hobbits and she later dies of old age.

Odo was succeeded by his son Hunald, who after carrying on a war against the Franks under Pippin the Short, retired to a convent, leaving both the kingdom and the conflict to Waiter, or Guaifer.

In 2002, teenager Monica Pippin brought a federal lawsuit against Playboy Entertainment, Anheuser-Busch, Deslin Hotels, Best Buy, and other companies relating to her appearance the previous year in a Daytona Beach wet t-shirt contest, at which time she had been 16 junior at Florida's Plant City High School.

With Pippin having died, Hunald, son of the late Duke Waifer, raised an insurrection against Frankish power in Aquitaine.

It is still a matter of debate among historians whether they were called by Pippin II in his fight against Charles the Bald ( as Charles ' propaganda later claimed ), helped defeat Charles the Bald, and left with due payment from Pippin II, or whether they just took advantage of the war to invade unchecked but moved back at the sight of the strong garrison of Toulouse who had just resisted successfully Charles the Bald.

Charles and Lewis are planning on going into battle against the Visigoths soon, and Pippin begs Charles to take him along so as to prove himself.

In the third Thierry, king of Morianel sends to Pippin for help against four Saracen kings.

The first expansion of papal rule outside of Rome came in 728 with the Donation of Sutri, which in turn was substantially increased in 754, when the Frankish ruler Pippin the Younger gave to the pope the land from his conquest of the Lombards.

If so, it was swept away in 781, when Charlemagne had his son renamed as Pippin.

Pippin takes over for a short while when Goon goes on a holiday.

Pippin takes over for a short while when Goon goes on a holiday.

At the south-eastern edge of the forest, on the bank of the river Withywindle, stood the house of Tom Bombadil, who rescued Pippin and Merry when they were trapped by a tree Tom called Old Man Willow.

This was when Gandalf and Pippin were discussing the palantír whilst en route to Minas Tirith.

" These two dogs were called Pippin and Johnny, and were looked after by the Queen Mother when Princess Margaret fell ill.

Catherine finds him on the street, and is attracted by the arch of his foot (" And There He Was ") and when Pippin comes to, she introduces herself to Pippin (" Kind of Woman "), a widow, with a small boy, Theo.

Pippin initially took up art in the 1920s to strengthen his wounded right arm ; his activity as a painter began in earnest around 1930, when he completed his first oil painting, The End of the War: Starting Home.

The dying king Thierry had desired that his daughter Blanchefleur should marry Garin, but when Garin prefers his suit at the court of Pippin, Fromont of Bordeaux puts himself forward as his rival and Hardré, Fromont's father, is slain by Garin.

Several families took on the Hall and the Estate until 1929 when Mr John Whitehead purchased the estate and eventually established the largest apple orchard in England with over one million Cox's Orange Pippin trees, until they were dug up and burned as uneconomic in 1974.

Originally built by John A. Miller in 1924, the ride's name was Pippin until 1967, when it changed to Thunderbolt beginning with the 1968 season, coinciding with an expansion of the track headed up by Andy Vettel.

Eddie attempts to leave him in quarantine at the airport when he arrives in England but Pippin rescues Pete, by claiming Pete is a police dog.

Also, when invited to sit down, Treebeard tells Merry and Pippin that he is not very ' bendable ', while a much younger Ent, Quickbeam, could ' bend and sway like a slender tree in the wind ').

Then, in 689 king Redbad was defeated by Frankish Duke Pippin of Herstal in the battle of Dorestad and the Franks regained control of the area.

King Redbad reconquered Utrecht after Pippin died in 714, but the Frisian victory was short-lived: Duke Charles Martel defeated Redbad in 718.

According to Eginhard's brief description, the commendatio made to Pippin the Younger in 757 by Tassillo, Duke of Bavaria, involved the relics of Saints Denis, Rusticus, and Éleuthère, Saint Martin, and Saint Germain, which had apparently been assembled at Compiègne for the event.

* Polly Prosser ( Cox's Orange Pippin x Duke of Devonshire )