King of Italy Bernard Cunigunde

797 - 818  (21 years)

• Name	Bernard Cunigunde  [1, 2]
  Title	King of Italy
  Birth	797	Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Apr 818	Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany   [2]
  	Louis the Pious condemned him to death, but 'mercifully' commuted the sentence to blinding; however, the process of blinding (carried out by means of pressing a red-hot stiletto to the eyeballs) proved so traumatic that Bernard died in agony after two day
  Burial	Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy   [2]
  Person ID	I10805	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	King of Italy Pepin Carolingian, IV,   b. Apr 773, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany d. 8 Jul 810, Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy (Age 37 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Queen Bertha de Toulouse de Gellone,   b. 777, Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France d. 870, Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy (Age 93 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France   [3]
  Family ID	F7657	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Kunigunda Cunegonde,   b. 797, Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France d. 835, Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy (Age 38 years)
  Marriage	813	Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France
  Children	1. Lord de Quentin and Peronne Pepin de Senlis de Vermandois,   b. 23 Feb 817, France d. 9 Aug 884, Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy (Age 67 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3905	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 797 - Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy Marriage - 813 - Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France Death - 17 Apr 818 - Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Burials

  Tomb-CUNIGUNDE Bernard (Effigy) Bernard de Carolingian + https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66394545/bernard-de_carolingian

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees. [S1063] Ancestry.com, Italy, Find a Grave™ Index, 1800s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT ; Date: 2012;). [S1073] Wikipedia: Pepin of Italy, Pepin of Italy. Pepin or Pippin (or Pepin Carloman, Pepinno, April 773 – 8 July 810), born Carloman, was the son of Charlemagne and King of the Lombards (781–810) under the authority of his father. Pepin was the second son of Charlemagne by his then-wife Hildegard.[1] He was born Carloman, but was rechristened with the royal name Pepin (also the name of his older half-brother Pepin the Hunchback, and his grandfather Pepin the Short) when he was a young child. He was made "king of Italy"[2] after his father's conquest of the Lombards, in 781, and crowned by Pope Hadrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. He was active as ruler of Lombardy and worked to expand the Frankish empire. In 791, he marched a Lombard army into the Drava valley and ravaged Pannonia, while his father marched along the Danube into Avar territory. Charlemagne left the campaigning to deal with a Saxon revolt in 792. Pepin and Duke Eric of Friuli continued, however, to assault the Avars' ring-shaped strongholds. The great Ring of the Avars, their capital fortress, was taken twice. The booty was sent to Charlemagne in Aachen and redistributed to all his followers and even to foreign rulers, including King Offa of Mercia. A celebratory poem, De Pippini regis Victoria Avarica, was composed after Pepin forced the Avar khagan to submit in 796.[3] This poem was composed at Verona, Pepin's capital after 799 and the centre of Carolingian Renaissance literature in Italy. The Versus de Verona (c. 800), an urban encomium of the city, likewise praises king Pepin.[4] The "Codex Gothanus" History of the Lombards hails Pepin's campaign against Benevento and his liberation of Corsica "from the oppression of the Moors."[5] His activities included a long, but unsuccessful siege of Venice in 810. The siege lasted six months and Pepin's army was ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and was forced to withdraw. A few months later Pepin died, on 8 July 810. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepin_of_Italy