Pippin of Landen

Saint Pepin of Landen, also known as Pepin the Elder (580 – 640), was the Frankish Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia under the Merovingian kings Clotaire II, Dagobert I and Sigebert III from 615 or 623 to 640.

He had two daughters:

• Begga, who married Ansegisel, the son of Arnulf, Bishop of Metz. The son of this marriage, Pippin II, was Charlemagne's great-grandfather.

• Gertrude (625 – 17 March 659) – Burried in the convent of Nijvel founded by her mother Itta. She was later canonised as a saint and is usually portrayed accompanied with mice.

and a son:

• Grimoald, Mayor of the Palace of the Austrasia

Sources:

• http://geneweb.inria.fr/roglo?lang=en;i=48811 Les Amis de Roglo genealogy database
• http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/stoyan/l3/LANG=engl/F=Pippin@I./N=v.Austrien