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.=
