Siege of Toulouse (767)
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Pepin the Short |
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The Siege of Toulouse was a Frankish siege of the Aquitanian fortified town of Toulouse in the winter of 767 during the . The Frankish army under King Pepin the Short conquered the town and accepted the surrender of nearby Albi and Gevaudan.
Prelude[]
In early 767 King Pepin the Short of Francia army marched through Aquitaine into Narbonne and moved on to besiege Toulouse.[1][2] Bourges, conquered in 762 by Pepin, was the most important base for the campaign.[3][2]
Siege[]
Toulouse was conquered and the nearby towns of Albi and Gevaudan submitted to Pepin without a fight.[2]
Aftermath[]
Most and possibly all of the fortified places in Aquitaine were in Frankish hands by the end of 767.[4] Pepin returned home and spent Easter at Vienne.[1] He continued the war against Aquitaine in August 767.[1][2] In the next year, King Pepin defeated the last few allies of Waiofar, Duke of Aquitaine (between 745-768), and then captured him and most of his family and executed them in public.[5][6]
References[]
- ^ a b c Royal Frankish Annals 1970, p. 46.
- ^ a b c d Petersen 2013, p. 737.
- ^ Petersen 2013, p. 731.
- ^ Bachrach 1974, p. 6.
- ^ La France et la Méditerranée : vingt-sept siècles d'interdépendance. Malkin, Irad. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1990. ISBN 9004089306. OCLC 19552965.
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Bibliography[]
- Bachrach, Bernard (1974). "Military Organization in Aquitaine under the Early Carolingians". Speculum. 49 (1): 1–33. doi:10.2307/2856549. JSTOR 2856549. S2CID 162218193.
- Petersen, Leif Inge Ree (2013). Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD): Byzantium, the West and Islam. Leiden: Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-25199-1.
- Royal Frankish Annals (1970). Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories. Translated by Scholz, B.W. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-06186-0.
- Sieges involving Francia
- 760s conflicts
- 767
- 8th century in Francia