“Handsome of face, but hunch-backed.”
“When Charles was at war with the Huns, and was wintering in Bavaria, this Pepin shammed sickness and plotted against his father in company with some of the leading Franks, who seduced him with the vain promise of a kingdom. When this deceit was discovered, and the conspirators punished, Pepin was tonsured and was allowed to devote himself to the religious life in the monastery of Prüm…”45