From "King Pepin", either Pepin the Short in 764 or Pepin II of Aquitaine in 848, the monastery received the relics of Saint Austremonius, first bishop of Clermont and responsible for the evangelisation of the Auvergne; the abbey passed under royal protection.
Even the pretender Pepin II of Aquitaine led a band of Norsemen in an attack on Toulouse, but was repulsed.
Pepin II of Aquitaine (823 – after 864), King of Aquitaine, son of Pepin I
In May 844, his father was executed and he promptly joined the rebellion then under way in Aquitaine led by Pepin II.
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It has been suggested that they were related to the family of William of Gellone and to the Counts of Autun, from which may have descended Ringard, the wife of Pepin II of Aquitaine.