Excerpt from The Ancestry of Daniel Bontecou, of Springfield, Mass: A Record of Forty Successive Generations, Extending Through Thirteen CenturiesPepin the old, sometimes called Pepin of Landen, the founder of the family, is said to have been born about 560. He was Of a Brabant family and took his designation from Landen (now in Liege, Belgium). Rebelling with other of the great lords of Austrasia, against the rule of Brunehaut, who was regent for the youthful king, he offered the crown to Clotaire _ii., king of Neustria, who in reward of his services created him Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, an office which he continued to hold during the two following reigns. He died in 639.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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