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I've had an interesting message from a user using the pseudonym Pepin le_bref: As it's filled with interesting info, I thought other managers might like to engage with it as well. We haven't had a good 'jaw' about Pepin for a long time :-). [But don't anybody else start using historical pseudonyms, as the risk of them being merged into the big tree (& the work to clean it up) means that Geni will delete your profile as quickly as they can.]
It's really overdue time that we cleaned up Pepin's 'About text', so I'll unlock his profile (temporarily) in case anybody wants to have a shot at it.
=Hello, it appears you have copied the information on the english wiki about Pepin le bref. I wrote the wiki many years ago and since then a bunch of dodo heads have changed it and invented facts.
Pepin was never called "the younger". In an embarrassing moment his dad , Charles gave him the name "short" before all the nobles on his twelfth birthday while on the balcony in the great hall. Boniface and Pepin had a standing joke; when Boniface called him short, the reply was "I'm taller than you"
The wiki also calls every battle "a campaign". Most of Pepin's battles were defensive in nature, and not a "campaign"
Pepin neither craved the title of King, or worked a deal with the pope. All of his friends thought he craved the crown because the King was a joke, and it was a pain wasting four days before he could go into battle because the "king" had to put on a show and make it look like it was his idea. As a wise ambassador, Pepin did not refute his friends, but just grinned as if it were true.=
Hello Sharon, Thank you for taking my comments to heart. If you have any questions about Pepin, I will let you know if an answer is fact, or what I think. It upsets me when I read invented ideas from people who have no idea what really happened. Pepin was misunderstood by many. Even his son didn't understand his goal of winning the hearts of the people, and instead went about conquering, thinking thats what his dad wanted.