Eleanor Shipley Duckett
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Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1928β49. Author of The Gateway to the Middle Ages; Carolingian Portraits; and others.
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Pippin III was the first king of the Frankish Carolingian dynasty and the father of Charlemagne. A son of Charles Martel, Pippin became the sole de facto ruler of the Franks in 747 and then, on the deposition of Childeric III in 751, king of the Franks. He was the first Frankish king to beβ¦
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